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Useful Podcasts for Students and Teachers.(If you have any additions to this list, please forward them to jeromedevitt@)This page will be updated as I stumble on new podcast and as suggestions filter through to me.Happy listening!TopicDescriptionSuitabilityLinkThomas Hobbes (1558-1679)BBC – Reading Political Philosophy- from Machiavelli to MillDetailed, but outlines many of the key topics. Very good on background and Leviathan.Teachers & advanced students HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" History. Why is the life of man "nasty, brutish, and short"?Ian Shapiro (Yale), Jeffrey Collins (Ontario), Eddie Hyland (UCD). Gerard Casey (UCD), Peter Simons (TCD).Patrick Geoghegan talks with a panel of experts about "the greatest of British political theorists", Thomas Hobbes, and the impact of his philosophy and social contract. Interesting on Hobbes’s Atheism. Great opening Question “Why should we be bothering with Hobbes?”Good general intro, probably to students Polsocpodcast. Robert Armstrong (TCD)Perfect in every way….Students BBC – A History of Ideas – Hobbes and Civil Disobedience (13 mins long) Excellent for students in making the 17th Century ideas relevant to modern ideas (like computer games).Students HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Locke (1632-1704)BBC – Reading Political Philosophy- from Machiavelli to MillA really good, detailed discussion of the 2nd Treatise. Very good in terms of how the writings relate to the course material.Teachers & advanced students HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Podcast: Part 2.4. Introduction to the philosophy of John Locke, 'England's first Empiricist', he also gives a very simplistic definition of Empiricism; we obtain knowledge through experience of the world, through sensory data. 12 Minutes long and quite accessible.Students Karl Marx (1818-1883)Radio Open Source - Marx at 200 Paulo Freire (1921-1997)Mere Rhetoric – Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New and Imrpoved). This podcast bills itself as ideal for ‘beginners and insiders about the ideas, people and movements who have shaped rhetorical history. It is really accessible for students and only runs to 10 minutes with good, clear definitions of key concepts and terminology in Freire. Highly recommended!Students HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Huntington (1927-2008)Saving Samuel Huntington & the Need for Pragmatic-Civil Military RelationsTeachers HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" - The Politics of Emergency A Conversation with Fareed ZakariaCNN host, Fareed Zakaria, who studied for his PhD under the supervision of Huntington in Harvard, gives a clear summary of the ‘Clash of Civilizations’, but also has an interesting discussion of ‘media health’. Students André Gunder Frank (1929-2005)Fr. Seán McDonagh (1935- )Trócaire ‘Global Voices, Our Choices’ – Specifically tailored to Politics and Society Students. Resources and full transcript available to download on the website.Students Edward Said (1935-2003)Benedict Anderson (1936-2015)London Review Bookshop – A podcast made shortly after Anderson’s death, which goes back over his overall impact as a scholar and the importance of Imagined Communities more generally. 2 perspectives offered. A good overall summation. Teachers and advanced students Owls at Dawn – Some bad language, but an interesting segment (From 9 mins) where they use Imagined Communities to look at the rise of Trump. Also refers to the formation of Irish national identities and how they have shifted – could be quite relevant to students. It feels like the presenters think through some of the ideas of Anderson and Nationalism in the ways students might…Students (with a caveat about the language) Nozick (1938-2002)The Voluntary Life – How Free are you? The Tale of the Slave by Robert Nozick. Only 13 minutes long. This is essentially a discussion of the extract from ‘Anarchy, State, and Utopia’. It’s interesting how the podcast host actually disagrees with some of Nozick’s conclusions. HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Thoughts - Robert Nozick’s “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”- The Cato Institute (libertarianism). HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Nussbaum (1947- )Vandana Shiva (1952- )Sustainable World Radio – The Forgotten Richness of Pulses – Dr Vandana Shiva. (18 minutes) While some of the episode discuses how chickpeas and other pulses contribute to sustainability, Shiva also discusses the ‘violence’ of the Green Revolution, Bt Coton, and how she became an activist. (Watch out for the interesting use of language ‘she’ and ‘her’ in relation to Eco-Feminism.) Very accessible to students.Students HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" of Invention- Episode title “Against the Grain”. Shiva is on from circa timecode 9:00-18:00. Great brief recap of her activism and being a ‘tree hugger’, interesting use of key terminology, and an excellent brief explanation of the ‘Seed Bank’ system she set up. (The entire series on Eco Feminism is amazing. It’s tag line “Climate Change is a man-made problem with a Feminist solution” is a great example of intersections on our course.Every level of Student and Teachers HYPERLINK "" \l "episodeGuid=c39a00ecfd324d1abaa65dfbcdbd1e4f" \t "_blank" Walby (1953- )Dublin Calling UCD School of Sociology- Gráinne McKeever travels to Toronto to interview Walby about her work and key ideas.Students and Teachers Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954- )Mistaken Identities - BBC Reith Lectures (4 Episodes), looking at misconceptions of identity around 4 Topics – Creed, Country, Colour, and Culture. Very highly recommended.Students and Teachers Calling UCD School of Sociology- Gráinne McKeever (UCD Doctoral Scholar in Sociology) travels to NYU to interview Appiah for a discussion about the philosopher’s key ideas and key work. Some sections are a very accessible for students, and it refers to both the Politics and Society Curriculum and specific contemporary events in Ireland of which Appiah is aware. Students and Teachers Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962- )Talking Anthropology - Debate on Neoliberalism where Eriksen opposes the motion “The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century.” Eriksen starts his argument at time code: Cultures of Energy – Episode #30. Hylland Eriksen from time code 10:04. The podcast discusses “intertwining crises of economy, environment and culture in the context of the mind-boggling acceleration of social change over the past 25 years” Kathleen LynchConcepts and InstitutionsDáil ?ireannPolsocpodcast – Episode 3Anne Marie McNally, Political Director of the Social Democrats walks the students through some of the “corridors of power” in Leinster House. Tons of additional resources on the website’s ‘Episode Notes’ pages too.Students Council of Europe & Human RightsPolsocpodcast – Episode 4Samantha O’Brien O’Reilly joins yours truly on the phone from Strasbourg to highlight the functions of the Council of Europe, and discusses the functions of the Court and cases relevant to Ireland.Students ................
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