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• /474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow

  On cities and the politics of development. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg. If our future is urban – and it is – why is it different to what we imagined? Are Johannesburg and São Paulo representative of what is going on in cities? How did democratic promise and neoliberal disappointment go together in the 1990s, through to today? What has been the role of social movements (e.g. for housing) in transforming cities and municipal government? Is the radical right in the global North and South fundamentally different? What is the urban dimension? What does China's lead in industries like electric vehicles mean for countries like Brazil? Is industrial upgrading possible under post-neoliberalism? Links: Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, Benjamin Bradlow, Princeton UP A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018), Tomás Gold and Benjamin Bradlow, Social Forces Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Peter Evans, Princeton UP

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• /473/ Make Alienation Great Again ft. Todd McGowan

  On Embracing Alienation. Todd McGowan is back on the pod, talking to George and Alex about his book, Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try To Find Ourselves. Why is alienation good actually? What does it give us? How is alienation related to subjectivity and freedom? What is the problem with anti-alienation politics of Left and Right? What happened to the 1960s concern with alienation, where did it go? Why is an embrace of the public realm, against therapy culture, the right response? What is the task of critical theory today? Links: /167/ The Kingdom of God Is on Main Street ft. Todd McGowan Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try To Find Ourselves

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• /472/ Munich, MAGA, Musk, Malema ft. Will Shoki / Ryan Zickgraf

  On Trumpworld: Vance in Munich; Musk in South Africa. [This contains only the interview on South Africa – for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Alex, George and Ryan Zickgraf round up events in Germany: first the elections, then US Vice-President JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference where he called out Western elites' hypocrisy on liberalism and democracy. Then Alex speaks to Will Shoki, editor at Africa Is A Country, about what Musk wants from South Africa, why the global radical right has fixated on land reform in South Africa, and what is really at stake for South Africans. We round out by taking your questions and comments – and by welcoming in carnival by discussing drinking & socialising, and its anti-social enemies. Running Order 00:03:10 – German elections 00:08:20 – Vance's Munich speech 00:26:00 – Will Shoki on South African politics 01:04:55 – Musk and the global radical right 01:13:20 – Letters to the Editors 01:23:10 – Carnival and social drinking Links: Trump’s Tool: The Limits of Bannon’s Postmodern Nationalism, Alex Gourevitch, The Northern Star Make Afrikaners great again! National populism, democracy and the new white minority politics in post- apartheid South Africa, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Ethnic and Racial Studies  Why Trump loves corrupt Democrats, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd The Case for Social Drinking, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin The Hangover and Life as a Commodity, George Hoare, Damage Segregation Is Still Alive in Mardi Gras’s Birthplace, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin

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• /471/ Reforming the Deformed ft. Nathan Sperber & George Hoare

  On Gramsci in the 21st century. [Patreon Exclusive] Sociologist Nathan Sperber and our own George Hoare talk to Alex H and Lee Jones about the new edition to their book, An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy, which includes a new chapter on Gramsci's relevance to contemporary politics and events and a new section on Gramsci's influence on the New Right. We discuss: How does this book differ from other introductions to Gramsci? What is wrong with the post-Marxist, post-colonial or culturalist version of Gramsci? What are Gramsci's top 3 insights into politics? How has Gramsci been taken up by the political Right? How has Gramsci been used and abused by the Left? What to make of the post-Marxist radical democracy of Laclau and Mouffe ("left-populism")? Why is the concept of the "national-popular" that Gramsci takes from the Jacobins so important to rediscover?

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• UNLOCKED: /418/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown System, German-Style ft. Gregor Baszak

  This episode, originally published in June 2024 only for subscribers, is crucial backdrop to this Sunday's (23 Feb 2025) snap elections in Germany.  For more like this, join us at patreon.com/bungacast On German political derangement. Independent researcher and writer Gregor Baszak joins us to talk about German centrism being squeezed under pressure from both left and right — Sahra Wagenknecht and the AFD. Meanwhile the German economy is getting squeezed between the US and Russia, and NATO pressures Germany to up its defence spending.   Is German public life remilitarising?  What are the prospects for Sahra Wagenknecht’s new ‘left-conservative’ politics?  What was the original political vision behind the Nordstream 2 pipeline?  Why are Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni trying to carve the AFD out of pan-European national-populist cooperation?  Where does Germany now stand in relation to the Ukraine War?  Links: Europe After America, Gregor Baszak, The American Conservative  What’s the Matter With Germany?, Gregor Baszak, The American Conservative The Left-wing maverick who could stop the AfD For many, Sahra Wagenknecht is a tribune of the people, Gregor Baszak, UnHerd

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