Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

Featuring Ben Shanahan, the architect of socialist David Morales’ victorious campaign to be the Democratic nominee for mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. The Providence left ran a slate of left-wing candidates that not only elected Morales but also swept every single contested ci ...  Show more

Featuring Daniel Denvir and Ben Mabie answering questions posed by you, our listeners. Submit a question for our next mailbag: speakpipe.com/ListenerMailbag Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read the piece Ben mentioned “From the Camp to the Picket: Reflections from the UC St ...  Show more

Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early Ming Dynasty through the Ottomans and Mughals built dominant world orders and, ultimately, shaped the rise of Europe—and ...

Even if China’s priorities might be different from those of the West, it embraces many of the ontological assumptions of the current world order. In her recent book “Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Order”, Ayse Zarakol conceptualises world order as a non-Weste ...  Show more

Konuğum akademisyen ve yazar, Cambridge Üniversitesi Öğretim Üyesi Prof. Dr. Ayşe Zarakol. Zarakol önce birbirine benzemez görülen üç ülkeyi, Türkiye, Japonya, Rusya'yı, iki sosyolojik kuram yardımıyla karşılaştırdığı "Yenilgiden Sonra: Doğu Batı ile Yaşamayı Nasıl Öğrendi" adlı ...  Show more

Asia has long enthralled people in the west, with voyages of discovery and military expeditions setting out in search of wealth, wisdom and the chance to explore a "strange new world". Historian and author Christopher Harding speaks to Matt Elton about westeners' enduring fascina ...  Show more