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Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citiz…

3/15/2026 • 80 min

In Ghana, much as in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the establishment of affordable hydroelectric power. However, in the current rapidly changing climate, many nations face recurring droughts, which hinder electricity production just when demand is on the rise. This situation has led to challenges like l… Play episode

Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporat…
Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown, "Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divi…
Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’…
Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Prin…
Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology…
Populism, Polarization and Politics: Hungary on the Eve of Elections
Stuck: How Money, Media and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury,…
The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right
Elizabeth Suhay, "Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequa…
Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark, "Global Governance Under Fire: How Int…
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew …
Christine Loh, "Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kon…
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
Thailand’s February 2026 Snap Election: A Conversation with Prof Duncan Mc…
Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Blo…
Kenneth Lowande, "False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in…
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Moveme…
Lisa Björkman, "Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai" (U…
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States"…
How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions
Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion a…
India’s Democratic Republic in Flux
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, Oct…
Competing Visions for International Order
Laura K. Field, "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right" (Princet…
Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, …
Mark Stout, "World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence" (UP…
Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of…
Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy…
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cor…
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chishol…
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-S…
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the Stat…
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun V…
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and…
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIverigh…
Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream …
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research:…
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate In…
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstructi…
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobilit…
Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Pop…
Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became th…
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century Eur…
Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black L…

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