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Podcast for January 21, 2012 [ 4:09:03 | 136.39 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (966)

This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed …

• Sarah Sobieraj, assistant professor of sociology at Tufts University. is the author of “Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism” (NYU Press)

• journalist Nicholas Shaxson, author of “Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens” (Palgrave). Nick is an Associate Fellow with the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He’s also the author of “Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil” (Palgrave).

• Jo Guldi is author of, “Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State” (Harvard University Press). Jo is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History at the University of Chicago and and a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. She also runs the Landscape Studies Podcast.

• Christopher Strain is author of “Reload: Rethinking Violence in American Life” (Vanderbilt University Press). Chris is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He also wrote, “Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism” and “Burning Faith: Church Arson in the American South”

Our irregular correspondents were:

• live from New York City, past This is Hell! producer Trevor Ewen reports on, “The County Incinerator: Face Value Living”
• also live from NYC, Susan Kang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York who was a member of the Occupy Wall Street Demands Working Group gave her inaugural correspondence