/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley

/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley

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/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson

On energy, the material basis for all our politics? Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from the 1956 Suez Crisis to the Frackin ...  Show more

Excerpt: /248/ Aufhebonus Bonus

In which we respond to listener questions & criticisms. A bumper episode, featuring plenty on Canadian truckers, Swedish populists, ideas of justice, hyperpolitics and much more.  The full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast 

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