We speak with Richard Walker about the New Deal and race. Richard Walker is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He is co-author of The Capitalist Imperative (1989) and The New Social Economy (1992), and has written extensively on California, including The Conquest of Bread (2004), The Country in the City (2007), The Altas of California (2012), and Pictures of a Gone City (2018). He serves as Treasurer on the Living New Deal non-profit board of directors.
On Mindfulness
We speak with Ronald Purser about capitalist spirituality. Ronald Purser is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University and co-host of The Mindful Cranks podcast. His new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, is published by Repeater Books.
A Weekly Correction: July 3 2019
“IF VOTING CHANGED ANYTHING, THEY’D MAKE IT ILLEGAL.” - EMMA GOLDMAN
What we’re reading:
(2018). “There’s no such thing as revolutionary government.” Crimethinc.
The City and What It Means To Be Authentic
In this episode we speak with Sharon Zukin about her book, Naked City, the Death And Life of Authentic Urban Places. Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of books on urban, cultural and economic change. She is writing a book about New York's tech economy from hackathons to Amazon.
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Summer Vacation Reading List
We thought it might be fun to put together a Summer Break reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our beach towels right now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them!
Non-fiction
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Maid by Stephanie Land
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Fiction
2084: The End of the World by Boualem Sansal
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Weekly Correction: June 25, 2019
The Real Estate State
We speak with Samuel Stein about gentrification. Samuel Stein is a geography PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, and author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
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A Weekly Correction: June 18, 2019
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city […] The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” - David Harvey
What we’re reading :
What's Next for Cuba?
We talk with Sujatha Fernades about Cuba after the Pink Tide. Sujatha Fernandes teaches political economy and sociology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of several books, including Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006) and Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book is Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently completing a collection of essays entitled The Cuban Hustle.
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The Fight Against the Neo-Liberal University
We talk with Jeff Schuhrke about how grad workers at UCI staged their first-ever strike…and won! Jeff Schuhrke is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the co-president of the Graduate Employees Organization, AFT Local 6297.
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