https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-shup4-afdd43 On migration and identity. The question of migration and borders has become increasingly fraught across different societies. Why has immigration become the means through which grievance is expressed? Where has 'white' identity come from? And how durable is identity…
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/69/ Boiled Lobsters ft. Angela Nagle
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6hz5v-af4d12 On Peterson vs Zizek. Did the 'debate of the century' live up to its billing? More importantly, what explains Peterson's appeal - and Zizek's? Why did the debate have such an odd, out of time feel? References: The Fool…
/68/ Big Money Talk ft. Doug Henwood
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ayisy-ae607b On Modern Monetary Theory. Doug Henwood joins us to discuss whether MMT offers a fiscal alternative for Left governments. What is monetary sovereignty and do all states have it? What are MMT's prospects for states as different as the…
/67/ Legacies of Postmodernism ft. Catherine Liu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2gunp-ace712 On whether we can salvage anything from postmodernism. Have we left postmodernity - and if so, can can we be properly dialectical about it: see it as progress and catastrophe all at once? Is there a moment of truth…
/67/ Legacies of Postmodernism ft. Catherine Liu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2gunp-ace712 On whether we can salvage anything from postmodernism. Have we left postmodernity - and if so, can can we be properly dialectical about it: see it as progress and catastrophe all at once? Is there a moment of truth…
#BungaLive: Europe after Brexit
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r7zjm-aba43e #BungaLive. Debate on the future of Europe, held at Queen Mary, University of London on 21 March 2019. Europe After Brexit: Internationalism or Transnationalism? Until now, most debates about Brexit have only considered the question from the viewpoint of…
/66/ An Economics for the Many ft. James Meadway
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bekbr-ab17f7 On 'Corbynomics'. We talk to James Meadway, former advisor to the UK's Shadow Chancellor, about what a Corbyn government could and should do. What is the scope for manoeuver of a Left Government in 2019? What does a British…
/65/ Bunga Gets Ultra-Real ft. Steve Hall
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g9f8t-a9eaf7 On crime and the far-right. Prof Steve Hall explains what 'ultra-realism' in criminology means - and why we need to get beyond liberal idealism. We also discuss the rise of the English far-right, the EDL - and how a…
#BungaLive event: EUROPE AFTER BREXIT
https://youtu.be/QpS2f5oK2O8 Europe after Brexit: Internationalism or Transnationalism? Aufhebunga Bunga - the global politics podcast at the end of the end of history - is holding its first live debate, in London, bringing its international, left-wing perspective to the question of…
/64/ These Vests Don’t Yellow ft. Aurélie Dianara
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c7e8v-a971e6 On the Gilets Jaunes - again. They won’t go away. They won’t be subsumed by other forces or institutions and, after more than three months, they’re not exhausted yet. Have the Gilets Jaunes punctured France’s depression and drift? How…
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