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Every book Kristin Godsey recommended on podcasts
Kristin Godsey’s most recommended books
- Gender and the politics of history by Joan Wallach Scott
- Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Saving Time by Jenny Odell
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
Kristin Godsey is an academic and author who appeared on The Ezra Klein Show to discuss communes, radical experiments in community living, and historical approaches to gender and labor. At the conclusion of her interview, Godsey offered three distinct book recommendations that reflect her scholarly interests. She recommended the late David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment, highlighting its subtitle and exploration of libertarian ideals. Her second recommendation was Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel The Dispossessed, noting that she has taught the book for twenty-five years. Finally, she recommended Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History, describing the profound intellectual impact the work had on her during her graduate studies. Throughout the broader conversation, Godsey also referenced several other influential texts to examine economic security and future-oriented social policies. She discussed Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler's Abundance, Thomas More's classic Utopia to illustrate the benefits of shared community resources, and Jenny Odell's Saving Time to critique the modern commodification of human time.
Books recommended by Kristin Godsey
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Gender and the politics of history
Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott is a critical work of feminist theory and historical methodology that examines how gender operates as a constitutive element of social relationships and historical analysis.
Recommended“and then the third book is gender in the politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott Who as a grad student many years ago kind of broke my brain”
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Pirate Enlightenment
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber explores the egalitarian and democratic societies created by pirates in Madagascar.
Recommended“the first one is pirate Enlightenment by the late David Graber the subtitle is the real libertalia”
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed by Ursula K.
Recommended“the second book is Ursula greens the dispossessed which I have been teaching for 25 years”
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Abundance
Abundance by Peter H.
Discussed“diamantis and kotler have this book called abundance you know the future is better than you think”
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Saving Time
Saving Time by Jenny Odell is an insightful cultural critique examining how modern society constructs, commodifies, and relentlessly stresses over time, advocating instead for a deeper, more ecological relationship with the natural rhythms of existence.
Discussed“and you know Jenny O'Dell's recent book about saving time and the way that we have come to think of time as this fundamentally sort of fungible asset”
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Utopia
Utopia by Thomas More is a foundational 1516 satirical and philosophical work that famously coined the term utopia and describes an imaginary island society.
Discussed“so if we look at like Thomas Moore's Utopia he talks exactly about how when the utopians shared their resources all people in this Society even though they are in biparental families”
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Utopia for Realists
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman is an imaginative economic and social policy book that challenges conventional political wisdom by advocating for transformative ideas such as a universal basic income and a drastically shortened workweek.
Discussed“so I'm thinking of like Rutger bregman's Utopia for realist right where he talks about a 15-hour work week”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal | The Ezra Klein Show | 2023-06-09 | 7 |