To commence Season 4, Michael Dawson invited Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) and Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) to speak about the discourse on nationalism. They discuss a recent issue of Dissent magazine, in which Getachew and Slobodian were both contributors, What is the Nation Good For? to start the conversation. They talk about the relationship between nationalism and populism; immigration politics; and more, including their recently published books Worldmaking After Empire (Getachew) and Globalists (Slobodian).

Works by the guests:

Adom Getachew, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

To continue the conversation, explore some of these suggested readings:

Dissent Summer 2019 Issue: What Is The Nation Good For?

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Cosmopolites: The Coming of Global Citizen

E. Tendayi Achiume, "The Postcolonial Case for Rethinking Borders"

Sven-Eric Liedman, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx

Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race

Camilla Schofield, Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain

Stuart Schrader, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South