The Radical Americas Podcast: Recent Episodes
Radical Americas Network
Podcast produced by the Radical Americas Network, featuring discussions with academics and activists dealing with many aspects of radicalism in the Western Hemisphere.
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/
Sarah's book, The Mexican Revolution's Wake, can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mexican-revolutions-wake/A7E101384E1EE07D5D773479153EF16F
William Booth's review of Sarah's book can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/sarah-osten-the-mexican-revolutions-wake-the-making-of-a-political-system-19201929-cambridge-and-new-york-cambridge-university-press-2018-pp-xiii-285-7500-hb/CF9D624F778B002F32FA93CD5638BA24
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://muse.jhu.edu/article/667339
Graham's piece in Radical Americas Journal: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uclpress/rad/2017/00000002/00000001/art00003?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf
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.
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=d47ef645-56c6-4501-9697-f21d328c22ad
Ben's Neruda review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/is-neruda-still-worth-reading-today/
And a couple of related pieces: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/dead-girls-femicide-in-argentina/ and https://www.influxpress.com/blog/2016/4/4/the-anti-canon-mara-anglica-bosco
NIALL GERAGHTY
Niall's article, discussed in the podcast: https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698018790120
Jonathan Perel's Toponimia on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/toponimia/id1174537756
Niall's forthcoming book: http://upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36823 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polyphonic-Machine-Capitalism-Contemporary-Illuminations/dp/0822965534/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536765832&sr=8-1&keywords=niall+geraghty
Forthcoming edited volume, w/ Dr. Adriana Massidda: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Spaces-Geraghty-Adriana-Massidda/dp/190885748X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1536765832&sr=8-2&keywords=niall+geraghty
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]
This episode was recorded at the LASA conference in Barcelona; there are occasional loud ambient noises - wind, helicopters, fellow cafe patrons - but hopefully you can hear the conversations.
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) about Ecuador. You can find Heather's monograph and edited volume via this link: http://www.heathervrana.com
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
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
William Booth of the Radical Americas Network speaks to Andrew Blades about AIDS, literature and activism, and to Rachell Sánchez about eugenics and sterilisation.
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.