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Discussing the exchange of foods across the Eurasian Heartland through the Silk Route, with Dr. Eugene Anderson.
In this first episode of our new themed series 'Survival by Degrees', Dr. Nicolas Graham describes the influence of fossil fuels in sustaining our unending quest for economic growth and profit.
Farabi Fakih and Faizah Zakaria discuss the concept and range of authoritarian modernization, Sukarno’s Guided Democracy as a revolution, the formation of a military elite and the connection between Cold War technical aid and democratic decline.
As the Journal of Sufi Studies recently instated a new Editorial Board, we invited the new Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Alexandre Papas, for a discussion about his academic work in Sufi studies, his most recent publications with Brill, and the future of the journal.
George L. van Driem discusses his latest book The Tale of Tea on the podcast Tea, Mud and Hope.
In the third episode of our new themed series In Chains, we speak with Dr. Alexis Aronowitz, who is the author of the article, “Regulating business involvement in labor exploitation and human trafficking” published in Journal of Labor and Society.
In the first episode of our short series called 'In Chains', we speak with Dr. Raphaël Lambert, Professor at the Department of British and American Cultural Studies, Kansai University, Kyoto. Prof. Lambert is the author of the Brill book Narrating the Slave Trade: Theorizing Community.
In celebration of the publication of the first volume in Brill's new Handbook of Sufi Studies, we joined Alexander Knysh, Editor-in-Chief, for a discussion about the popularity of Sufism in the West, the relation of Sufi studies to adjacent disciplines, and the directions that the Handbook series will take in the future.
In this New Books Network podcast, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro discusses Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises, her book with Candela Marini.