https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zvegy-197c17f On the Bolsonaros, Milei and MAGA. Alex talks to Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University, about Bolsonaro's sentencing, Trump's tariffs on Brazil, and the bailout of Milei. Is the motivation behind the tariffs on…
Read More /513/ Global Right: LATAM Division ft. Guilherme Casarões
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-24ps9-19774f8 On Göran Therborn's article, "Dreams and Nightmares of the World's Middle Classes". The penultimate episode of this block on the middle class, we discuss the differing fortunes and politics of the global North and South middle-classes – as well…
Read More /512/ Reading Club: Middle-Class Dreams & Nightmares
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-mqsby-15cbc90 On President AMLO and the rebuilding the working class. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue our discussion with anthropologist Roger Lancaster who has lived and researched in Mexico for decades, on the past and present of Mexican radicalism. How…
Read More /402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6v3hz-15cbc0d On Mexico, class, and sexuality. We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example. We discuss: How much is being gay tied…
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-b4m2c-14f006a On a decade of protest around the world. Journalist Vincent Bevins is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We discuss the 2010s protest…
Read More /374/ You’re Gonna Need Representation ft. Vincent Bevins
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-gnpfv-14c915b On sovereign debt and taking back control. The leading candidate in Argentina's election this month wants to avoid defaulting on the country's debt at all costs. But back in 2001, after a mass revolt, Argentina reneged on its…
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