The Radical Americas Podcast

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.

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July 3, 2025 29 mins

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...

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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

A discount flyer for £20 off Francesca...

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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...

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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 

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January 15, 2019 56 mins

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://...

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November 29, 2018 59 mins

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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September 14, 2018 75 mins
In this episode, William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks with Camila Gatica about cinema, to Ben Bollig about crime fiction and Neruda, and to Niall Geraghty about Jonathan Perel. Some links: CAMILA GATICA Camila's Academia page: https://ulondon.academia.edu/CamilaGaticaMizala BEN BOLLIG Ben's article on Vázquez Rial in Radical Americas: https://www.scienceopen.com/document/read?vid=d47ef645-56...
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William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to Alexander Aviña about the Mexican Dirty War [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/specters-of-revolution-9780199936571?cc=gb&lang=en&]; to Marieke Riethof about Brazilian labour [https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319603087]; and to Aaron Coy Moulton about the Caribbean Basin in the early Cold War [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14682745.2014.995172]T...
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William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to Gibrán Cruz Martínez (https://t.co/e9rC4gfWAa) about Puerto Rico [see also: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2017/05/05/the-end-of-colonialism-in-puerto-rico-evaluating-the-options-in-the-2017-political-status-referendum/], to Heather Vrana about students in Central America, and to Geoff Goodwin (http://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/fellows/geoff-goodwin)...
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January 11, 2018 34 mins
William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to Lucas Richert about psychiatry, intoxicants and radicalism, and to Nicole Willson about Haiti and the remembrance of slavery. You can find Lucas' award-winning book (with discount flyer!) here: https://lucasrichert.com/my-book/ and Nicole's recent article here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2017.1406683
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September 21, 2017 52 mins
William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to John Patrick Leary about his book 'A Cultural History of Underdevelopment' [http://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4938], and to Eline van Ommen about the Sandinistas' links to Western Europe. Eline's recent article can be found here: http://revistas.um.es/navegamerica/article/view/271861
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William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to Andrew Blades about AIDS, literature and activism, and to Rachell Sánchez about eugenics and sterilisation.
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In this episode, William Booth of the Radical Americas Network talks to Tanya Harmer about Beatriz Allende, and to Christian Hogsbjerg about CLR James and Toussaint L'Ouverture.
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