Episodes
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 014
In this episode, William Booth talks to Rafael Shimabukuro about Villa El Salvador, a fascinating experiment in radical planning and housing praxis. Rafael has written about Villa El Salvador in his article 'Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador' -...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 013
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...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 012
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…
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 011
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…
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 010
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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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 009
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:...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 008
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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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 007
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...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 006
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…
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 005
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...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 004
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...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 003
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:...
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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 002
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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The Radical Americas Podcast, Episode 001
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.