https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nu6ci-163395b On India's election and a blow for the BJP. Esteemed writer and social activist Achin Vanaik is back on Bungacast to unpick India's monumental, seven-week-long electoral process in which over 600m people took part. How did the ruling Hindu…
Read More /417/ Has India passed peak Modi? ft. Achin Vanaik
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-swnzj-162fde5 On MORENA and Claudia Sheinbaum's huge victory. Mexico has elected its first woman president, tasked with extending the hugely popular AMLO'S legacy. What are her prospects and challenges? We ask: What was the effect of NAFTA on Mexico, and…
Read More /415/ Left-Populism That Works? (II) ft. Juan David Rojas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zbnrh-1628213 On Mexico's elections. [Full episode at patreon.com/bungacast] Mexico goes to the polls this Sunday with the ruling centre-left MORENA party holding a commanding lead. Anthropologist Roger Lancaster joins us to preview the election and look at outgoing…
Read More /413/ Left-Populism That Works? (I) ft. Roger Lancaster
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cxska-15aa739 On Portugal's elections, 50 years since the revolution Catarina Príncipe, a long-time activist on the Portuguese left and a doctoral student of political economy, is back on the podcast to talk through what happened as Portugal went to…
Read More /396/ Enough Carnations? Portugal Decides, ft. Catarina Príncipe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ry3rp-15833e3 On Indonesia's new president and the End of History. For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Michael Vann, Indonesia expert and history professor at Sacramento State, joins us to talk through the election results. How did Prabowo go from…
Read More /392/ The Biggest Country No One Talks About (II) ft. Michael Vann
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a7cnf-1576e99 On Indonesia: a country without a Left. Foremost scholar of Indonesian politics and political economy, Vedi Hadiz of the University of Melbourne, joins us to talk through the country's politics in advance of the elections next week. What…
Read More /391/ The Biggest Country No One Talks About ft. Vedi Hadiz
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g798a-157253a On El Salvador and mass incarceration. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, has just been re-elected on a landslide. His trademark policy is a state of emergency and the locking-up of tens of thousands of suspected gang members. He…
Read More /388/ Betting on Bukele (I) ft. Nelson Rauda / Juan Rojas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qtwe9-153798c On the missed opportunity of the 2010s. [Patreon Exclusive] Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins us to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss: Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?…
Read More Excerpt: /382/ Death of the Millennial Left ft. Chris Cutrone
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6v6ia-14db517 On Argentina's historic election. Historian of populism and anti-populism Ernesto Seman tells us what is happening in Argentina amidst severe economic crisis. The radical libertarian madman Javier Milei failed to win, and a second-round runoff will be needed,…
Read More /371/ The Milei Massacre Didn’t Happen ft. Ernesto Seman
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-btjba-14ac2da On the radical right in the global periphery. [This was originally a Patreon Exclusive] Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or…
Read More UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
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