The University of Arizona Press
December 19, 2024
Treat yourself to some excellent listening to celebrate the end of the year. Recently, our authors were featured guests or guest hosts on radio programs and podcasts. Tune in to go behind the scenes of three of our 2024 books, and listen to a brand new poem from one of our poets!
Phoenix’s KJZZ public radio station interviewed Rafael A Martínez about his new book, Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States. Martínez talked about how today’s youth movements were inspired by the history of activism. He says, “Most of these activists that I write about were trained by folks and leaders in the civil rights movement. [In the 1960s] there was a lot of civil disobedience in the country, but then they also had to push politicians to pass things that would actually make significant change. Undocumented youth took a page from that history book and started to say: we need to take our activism to sites and places like detention centers where undocumented communities are being criminalized and we need to change the narrative.” Listen to the radio show here. The full transcript is also available.
Rick Tabenunaka of the “Decolonized Buffalo” podcast interviewed Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, authors of Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State. The authors talk about Westphalian sovereignty and its Eurocentric roots, in comparison to Indigenous sovereignty. Canessa and Picq also discuss the concept of “tribalism” within a Eurocentric concept of sovereignty, and they also analyze the “Doctrine of Discovery” as a pillar of the modern political system. Listen to the podcast here or watch the video here.
Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White, was guest host on the “Poetry Centered” podcast. He introduced three poems from Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s online audiovisual archive. Báez discusses poems by Gabriel Dozal, Gabriel Palacios, and Jimmy Santiago Baca. Then he reads a new poem of his own “Neuropathy with Lamb.” Listen to the podcast here.
“Imagine Otherwise” podcast host Cathy Hannabach interviewed Amber Rose González, Felicia Montes, and Nadia Zepeda, editors of Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis. In the conversation, Amber, Felicia, and Nadia share their journey with the Mujeres de Maiz organization and the collective liberation the group is building. Traversing poetry, performance, zines, healing ceremonies, visual art, autoethnography, and a plethora of other mediums, these scholars demonstrate the power of collaboration and intersectional solidarity. Listen to the podcast here.
