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New Books in Human Rights

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork

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What is New Books in Human Rights about?

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field.

What has New Books in Human Rights covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Carceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)" (26 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Human Rights in Psychiatry: Prospects and Dilemmas of Abolishing Coercion in Mental Health Care with Dirk Richter (Springer, 2025)" (23 October 2026, 46 minutes), and "Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)" (18 October 2026, 56 minutes).

How often does New Books in Human Rights publish?

New Books in Human Rights publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 600 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on New Books in Human Rights?

Booking probability for New Books in Human Rights is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. New Books in Human Rights requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. New Books in Human Rights's contact route on record: verified email.

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  • Episode #1555

    Carceral Utopia: A Global History of Model Prisons with Gregory Salle (Polity, 2026)

    Oct 26, 202647 min

    What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread belief that prisons can be improved in a socially progressive way...

  • Episode #1554

    Human Rights in Psychiatry: Prospects and Dilemmas of Abolishing Coercion in Mental Health Care with Dirk Richter (Springer, 2025)

    Oct 23, 202646 min

    In Human Rights in Psychiatry: Prospects and Dilemmas of Abolishing Coercion in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2025), Professor Dirk Richter describes the ethical lines of conflict, shows why coercion can no longer be...

  • Episode #1553

    Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)

    Oct 18, 202656 min

    Why was the Japanese Army so brutal before and during World War Two? This haunting question anchors a sweeping investigation into the moral universe of Imperial Japan’s soldiers, tracing their path from the twilight of...

  • Episode #1552

    Tyrell Haberkorn In Conversation with Duncan McCargo

    Oct 16, 202630 min

    In this episode of Talking Thai Politics,  Professor Tyrell Haberkorn discusses her new book, Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand ( Stanford UP, 2024). This book examines five court...

  • Episode #1551

    Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

    Oct 15, 202643 min

    Feeling worn out by the work of resistance? How do you persevere? Today’s book is: Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day , by Kaitlin B. Curtice. In an era in which "resistance" has...

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    Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge? with Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek (CEU Press, 2026)

    Oct 11, 202649 min

    In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast host Andrea Talabér talked to Michal Frankl, Doina Anca Cretu and Lidia Zessin-Jurek about the new edited volume Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe...

  • Episode #1549

    Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire with Gunja SenGupta (U California Press, 2023)

    Oct 6, 202646 min

    In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans...

  • Episode #1547

    Janos Fiala-Butora, "Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities" (Hart, 2025)

    Sep 13, 20261 hour

    Implementing the Right to Decide Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities (Hart, 2025) addresses one of the most controversial...

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    Voices from North Korea: Refugees Tell Their Stories

    Sep 8, 202642 min

    n this podcast, North Korean refugees who visited the University of Bradford share their harrowing experiences of life in North Korea, escape, and the challenges of building new lives in freedom. They are supported by...

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    Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

    Aug 29, 202644 min

    Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press, 2025) is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of...

  • New Books in Human Rights

    Deborah Mayersen, "Genocide Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

    Aug 18, 20261h 9m

    There has never been a more promising time for genocide prevention. More resources and research are being focused on prevention than ever before. Yet we still lack vital knowledge as to the most effective ways to...

  • New Books in Human Rights

    Dana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

    Jul 23, 202658 min

    Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework (Hart Publishing, 2026) by Dr. Dana Burchardt...

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    Susanne Paola Antonetta, "The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today" (Catapult, 2025)

    Jul 17, 20261h 2m

    The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today (Catapult, 2025) delves into the forgotten history of eugenics and links it to present-day psychiatry to...

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    Daniel Krcmaric, "Above the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

    Jun 30, 202629 min

    The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World War II and leading the way in creating tribunals to address genocides in...

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    Ida Kinalska-Pietruska and Isabella Skrypczak, "A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile" (Disruption Books, 2026)

    Jun 14, 20261h 6m

    A memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of...

  • New Books in Human Rights

    Delia Duong Ba Wendel, "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty" (Duke UP, 2025)

    Jun 5, 202656 min

    In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty (Duke UP, 2025), Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory. Drawing from oral...

  • New Books in Human Rights

    Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)

    Jun 3, 202652 min

    The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully...

  • New Books in Human Rights

    Ruth Balint, "Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    May 22, 202654 min

    In this unique “history from below," Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2021) chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the...

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    Kristin LaFollette, "Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade" (SUNY Press, 2026)

    May 20, 202655 min

    Rehumanizing People of the Past: Bioarchaeology, Medical Museums and Archives, and the Human Remains Trade (SUNY Press, 2026) argues that much of the technical communication used to reference human remains--including...

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    Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia

    May 7, 20261h 9m

    Prince George’s County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. As such, it is well...

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