The Radical Americas Podcast
Podcast produced by the Radical Americas Network, featuring discussions with academics and activists dealing with many aspects of radicalism in the Western Hemisphere.
Episodes
This episode features a live conversation between William Booth and the author Yara Rodrigues Fowler. Yara's first two novels - 'Stubborn Archivist' (2019) and 'there are more things' (2022) - both explore a myriad of socio-economic, sexual, psychological and political themes. We touched on a few of them here in this recent chat at UCL. Some strong language.
Yara's website is here - you can find links t...
Welcome back for a new season of the Radical Americas Podcast! In this special episode recorded last summer at LASA, Bogotá, host William A. Booth speaks to Dr. Francesca Lessa about Operation Condor, the Cold War, and the politics of memory, justice and reconciliation.
Francesca's article 'No Safe Haven' can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/68/2/sqae035/7637878
In this episode William Booth talks to Kevan Aguilar about Spanish exiles in Mexico, and to Sarah Osten about radical politics in Mexico's post-revolutionary southeast.
Find Kevan's chapter “The IWW in Tampico: Anarchism, Internationalism, and Solidarity Unionism in a Mexican Port,” in Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399591/wobblies-of-the-world/
Sar...
William Booth talks to Grace Carrington (LSE) about decolonisation in the Caribbean and John S. Huntington (Houston Community College) about the radical right in the United States. You can read John's article here: https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=d9ded55e-f362-45f6-86d9-96a7ecea51f5
William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to Daniel Willis about Peru's long guerrilla conflict, and to Emily Baker about the representation of fascism in Latin American literature, while Graham McGeoch reflects on the life and work of Richard Shaull.
Dan's academia page: https://ucl.academia.edu/DanielWillis
Dan's thesis: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10043590/
Emily's article: https://...
William Booth of the Radical Americas Network talks to Nathaniel Morris (UCL, Alyssa Bowen (UNC) and Samuel Finesurrey (UNC) in the second of two LASA 2018 episodes.
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