The Radical Americas Podcast

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Podcast produced by the Radical Americas Network, featuring discussions with academics and activists dealing with many aspects of radicalism in the Western Hemisphere.

  1. Jul 10

    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' - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70068

  2. 07/03/2025

    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 of them here in this recent chat at UCL. Some strong language. Yara's website is here - you can find links to buy her wonderful novels there too.

  3. 03/04/2025

    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 Safe Haven' can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/68/2/sqae035/7637878 A discount flyer for £20 off Francesca's book can be found HERE

  4. 07/28/2019

    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 of the World: A Global History of the IWW - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399591/wobblies-of-the-world/ Sarah's book, The Mexican Revolution's Wake, can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mexican-revolutions-wake/A7E101384E1EE07D5D773479153EF16F William Booth's review of Sarah's book can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/sarah-osten-the-mexican-revolutions-wake-the-making-of-a-political-system-19201929-cambridge-and-new-york-cambridge-university-press-2018-pp-xiii-285-7500-hb/CF9D624F778B002F32FA93CD5638BA24

  5. 06/11/2019

    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

  6. 01/15/2019

    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: https://ucl.academia.edu/DanielWillis Dan's thesis: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10043590/ Emily's article: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/667339 Graham's piece in Radical Americas Journal: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uclpress/rad/2017/00000002/00000001/art00003?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf

  7. 11/29/2018

    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.

  8. 09/14/2018

    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 BOLLIG Ben's article on Vázquez Rial in Radical Americas: https://www.scienceopen.com/document/read?vid=d47ef645-56c6-4501-9697-f21d328c22ad Ben's Neruda review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/is-neruda-still-worth-reading-today/ And a couple of related pieces: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/dead-girls-femicide-in-argentina/ and https://www.influxpress.com/blog/2016/4/4/the-anti-canon-mara-anglica-bosco NIALL GERAGHTY Niall's article, discussed in the podcast: https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698018790120 Jonathan Perel's Toponimia on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/toponimia/id1174537756 Niall's forthcoming book: http://upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36823 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polyphonic-Machine-Capitalism-Contemporary-Illuminations/dp/0822965534/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536765832&sr=8-1&keywords=niall+geraghty Forthcoming edited volume, w/ Dr. Adriana Massidda: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Spaces-Geraghty-Adriana-Massidda/dp/190885748X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1536765832&sr=8-2&keywords=niall+geraghty

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Podcast produced by the Radical Americas Network, featuring discussions with academics and activists dealing with many aspects of radicalism in the Western Hemisphere.

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  • Creator
    Radical Americas Network
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    14
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