RADIKAAL
RADIKAAL is a DIY podcast about the radical aspects of music, politics, and sports. Each episode, host Cas Mudde interviews one guest about a specific topic for about 30 minutes. Guests include academics, athletes, journalists, musicians, and politicians. In short, this is a podcast about fascists, punks, and ultras.
Episodes
85 episodes
76. Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford on Brexit
My guests today are the political science power couple Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford, who are both Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. Maria works on the political integration and representation of ethnic m...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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36:49
75. Richard Steigmann-Gall on Fascism and Religion
Ever since President Biden referred to “MAGA Republicans” as “semi-fascists”, the previously shunned F-word has become the omnipresent. At the same time, Christian nationalism has also become broadly used. Today, I will talk about fascism in ge...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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28:59
SES 9. Malu Gatto on the Brazilian Elections
My guest today, for this ninth episode in the Special Election Series, and the first covering a non-European election, is Malu Gatto. Malu is an Associate Professor of Latin American Politics at the Inst...
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Episode 0
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26:46
74. Kim Lane Scheppele on Viktor Orbán's Hungary
My guest today is Kim Lane Scheppele. Kim is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her work focuses on the i...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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29:48
73. Tessel Middag on Women and Soccer and Politics
My guest today is Tessel Middag. Tessel is a professional soccer player for Rangers FC in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as an international for the Dutch women national team. She studied history at the University of Amsterdam, where she also resea...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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23:02
SES 8. Giulia Sandri on the 2022 Italian Elections
My guest today, for this eight episode in the Special Election Series, is Giulia Sandri. Giulia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at ESPOL at the Catholic University of...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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27:29
72. Elizaveta (Lisa) Gaufman on Music and Politics in Russia
My guest today is Elizaveta Gaufman. Lisa is Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics in the Department of European Languages and Politics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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26:04
SES 7. Nicholas Aylott on the 2022 Swedish elections.
My guest today, for this seventh episode in the Special Election Series, is Nicholas Aylott. Nick is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Södertörn University in Sweden. His main academic i...
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Episode 0
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25:36
71. Luisa Turbino Torres on Feminist Soccer Groups in Brazil
My guest today is Luisa Turbino Torres. Luisa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at Florida Atlantic University. Earlier this year she defended her PhD thesis, entit...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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28:28
70. Christophe Jaffrelot on Modi's India
My guest today is Christophe Jaffrelot, a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow who teaches in three different schools at Sciences Po in Paris. He is a world-leading scholar of Indian politics, from its foreign policy to its political sociolo...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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33:06
69. Dana El Kurd on Palestinian Authoritarianism and Protest
My guest today is Dana El Kurd, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Richmond in Virginia, who works on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, state-society relat...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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25:24
68. Phil Gorski on White Christian Nationalism in the US
My guest today is Philip Gorski. Phil is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University, where he is currently also Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Co-Director of Yale’s Center for Comparative Research. He is a comparative-historical soc...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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27:12
67. Ellen van Damme on Gender and Gangs in Central America (Honduras)
My guest today is Ellen van Damme. Ellen has a BA, MA, and PhD in Criminology from the KU Leuven in Belgium, as well as an MA in Conflict and Development from Ghent University in Belgium and has just finished a Fulbright Post-Doc at the Center ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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27:57
66. Aurelien Mondon on the Mainstreaming of the Far Right
My guest today is Aurelien Mondon, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at Bath University in the United Kingdom. He h...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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27:20
65. Melanie Schiller on Music and Nationalism in Germany
My guest today is Melanie Schiller, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Popular Music at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research combines critical theory, cultura...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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28:42
64. Lenka Bustikova on Radical Right Parties in Eastern Europe
My guest today is Lenka Bustikova, currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University who will soon join St. Anthony’s College at the Oxford...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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24:58
63. Phillip Ayoub on the LGBT Movement in Europe
My guest today is Phillip Ayoub. Phillip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in California. This Summer he will take up a Professors...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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30:13
SES6. Rainbow Murray on the 2022 French Presidential Elections
My guest today, for this sixth episode in the Special Election Series, which will focus on the 2022 French presidential elections, is Rainbow Murray. Rainbow is a P...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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35:25
62. Charlotte Lysa on Gender, Politics, and Soccer in Qatar
My guest today is Charlotte Lysa. Charlotte is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and the University of Oslo in Norway. Her...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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25:35
61. Chris Ogunmodede on Afrobeat in Nigeria and Beyond.
My guest today is Christopher Ogunmodede. Chris is a foreign policy advisor and associate editor of World Politics Review, who is based in Lagos, Nigeria. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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27:22
SES5. Zsolt Enyedi on the 2022 Hungarian Election
My guest today is my former colleague Zsolt Enyedi. Zsolt is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Researcher at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, whi...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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32:44
60. Lorenza Antonucci on the Gig Economy, the Proletariat, and Populism
My guest today is Lorenza Antonucci. Lorenza is an Associate Professor and Birmingham Fellow in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Crimin...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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27:18
59. Kirsten Dyck on White Power Music
My guest today is Kirsten Dyck. Kirsten got her PhD in American Studies from Washington State University in 2012. She taught History, Humanities, Academic Writing, and English as a Foreign Language at James Madison University from 2012 to 2017 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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28:57
58. Mic Crenshaw about Anti-Racist Skinheads in Minneapolis and Hip Hop in Portland
My guest today is Mic Crenshaw. Mic is a hip hop activist, organizer, and MC, who is based in Portland, Oregon. He used to be the front man of Hungry Mob and has since published various CDs, including ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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30:27
57. Andrew Lawn on Football Chanting
My guest today is Andrew Lawn, a UX writer at Pickatale. He also delivers training courses on “Designing Better Academic Posters” and “Effective Digital Communications” at the University of East Anglia. In his spare time, Andy is Assista...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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