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Every book Kristin Godsey recommended on podcasts
Kristin Godsey appears on The Ezra Klein Show as a scholar and guest whose commentary centers around radical experiments in communal living, gender politics, economic structures, and the social organization of human societies. Through her podcast discussions, she explores historical alternatives to the traditional nuclear family and critiques modern society's commodification of time and resources. Godsey recommended three distinct books at the conclusion of her interview. Her first recommendation was Pirate Enlightenment by the late David Graeber, which explores historical libertarian ideals. Her second recommendation was Ursula K. Le Guin's classic novel The Dispossessed, a work she noted she has taught for twenty-five years. Her third recommendation was Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott, a book she credited with profoundly reshaping her intellectual development during graduate school. In addition to these explicit recommendations, Godsey referenced several other texts to enrich her arguments. She cited Rutger Bregman's Utopia for Realists and Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler's Abundance to discuss future-positive economic perspectives. Furthermore, she invoked Thomas More's Utopia to highlight how shared resource systems provide enduring security, and she mentioned Jenny Odell's Saving Time to address the modern mindset surrounding productivity and 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 prominent scholarly work exploring how gender shapes historical processes and analytical categories.
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: The Future Is Better Than You Think 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
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 philosophical and political text presenting a fictional island society governed by reason, communal property, and social harmony.
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
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 | 8 |