Barely Gettin' By
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTrained historians Chloe Ward and Emma Shortis discuss, analyse and critique the big issues of our time.
To figure out the events shaping our world, they apply critical thinking with history-charged commentary.
The pair didn’t predict Brexit, Trump or the Australian election. So, they’re slowing down to unpack and review: this is your explainer on what’s really going on. Barely Gettin' By is sponsored by RMIT.
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Radical Hope - Join us at Melbourne Conversations
June 14, 2022 02:45 - 56 seconds - 885 KBJoin a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin’ By as host Emma Shortis and special guests Jeff Sparrow and Mittul Vahanvati discuss the necessity of imagining different futures, local activism, action-based research and governments’ roles.
Radical Hope - Join us at Melbourne Knowledge Week
May 06, 2022 06:00 - 51 seconds - 806 KBBe part of the audience for a live recording of the podcast Barely Gettin’ By, hosted by Emma Shortis and featuring special guests: James Blackwell, Mittul Vahanvati and Jeff Sparrow. Forming part of Barely Getting By’s fourth season, “Up in Flames”, this event will examine climate policy as a global modern imperative. Tue 10 May - 6pm – 7pm The Capitol – RMIT 113 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000 Tickets are free and available here: https://www.eventopia.co/event/MKW-Barely-Gettin-By-Radic...
COP26 Special: Our Exceptional Friend
October 28, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBBarely Gettin' By might be on a lockdown hiatus, but the climate news keeps coming. In the lead up to the all-important COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, this special episode examines the historic relationship between Australia and the United States when it comes to climate change. Emma reads an extract from her book, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States, and asks what that relationship might mean for Glasgow, and the future. Reading Emma Shortis, Our Ex...
Lockdown Hiatus
July 23, 2021 04:00 - 4 minutes - 4.26 MBWith Melbourne in the midst of Lockdown 5.0, we will be taking a short break until we can get back in to the studio again.
Up In Flames
July 09, 2021 03:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBDonald Trump is gone, the pandemic is getting under control (in some places, maybe?), and all is well. Not.
Inauguration Special - This is America
January 19, 2021 22:20 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBAfter a long 2020 (and a very long January 2021) Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on the morning Thursday, 21 January (Australian time). What does a Presidential Inauguration look like when it’s overshadowed by a pandemic and threat of insurrectionist violence? Chloe and Emma talk about what what we can expect on Thursday, how Australia’s relationship with the USA will change after Donald Trump, what the violence on 6 January means, and what the Inaugu...
More democracy, and an attempted coup
November 13, 2020 00:18 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn the last episode of the season, Emma and Chloe reflect on Joe Biden’s victory and Trump’s refusal to concede. They look at how institutions and people are responding to Trump, and whether Fox News has finally seen the light. They ask if Trump is in fact attempting a coup, whether it will be successful, and whether fascism has to be successful in order to be called “fascism”. They then turn to the levers of power, looking at what will happen in Georgia and what that says about the future o...
Post-election wrap
November 06, 2020 03:01 - 29 minutes - 27 MBA very tired Emma and Chloe regroup, two days after polls closed to discuss the election. Were the polls wrong? What does Georgia say about American democracy? What next for the Democratic Party? A lot of things are still uncertain—and will remain so for the coming days and weeks—but one thing is clear: Donald Trump’s vote isn’t going away, even if he leaves the White House. Articles https://slate.com/culture/2020/11/election-2020-haruspex-model-sheep-entrails-deformed-fetuses-biden-trump-...
Four More Years? - Bonus episode with Matt Bevan
October 30, 2020 02:22 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBIn this bonus, pre-election episode, Chloe and Emma speak to Matt Bevan, ABC Radio journalist and host of the America, If You’re Listening Podcast, about the past four years of the Trump Presidency, the relationship between journalism and history, and whether it’s possible—or desirable—to predict an outcome in the 2020 Presidential Election. Chloe and Emma then pick up their conversation about contingency in history and why caring about the election is part of, not a distraction from, analys...
All That Matters
October 29, 2020 04:49 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBIn this episode, Chloe and Emma welcome a very special guest - Dr Elizabeth Ingelson, Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University. Joining them from New Haven, Connecticut, Lizzie discusses what it is like to live in Trump’s America. They cover how the United States is responding to pandemic, Lizzie’s experience in rural Pennsylvania, and the volatile state of American politics. They then turn to Lizzie’s expertise—the history of the United States and China. Lizzie brin...
A Force For Good?
October 22, 2020 02:40 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about how Joe Biden has linked the personal and the political throughout a long and successful career. But could the 2020 election force the two apart? They also speak to special guest, press gallery legend Barrie Cassidy, about past presidencies, this year’s election, and what it all means for Australia. Finally, Emma answers a question that still worries us: Despite Biden’s seemingly secure position in polls, what if Donald Trump refuses to leave office...
Not every disagreement is a fight
October 15, 2020 02:47 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBThis week, Chloe and Emma try (and fail) to lighten things up with a discussion of the young, progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shoes … and fracking. They also talk about the first ‘television president’ and why JFK’s Presidency might be a weird mirror for Donald Trump’s. And, in a week where polls seem to show Joe Biden set for victory, they discuss the history and the so-called “science” of polling, where pollsters went wrong in 2016 and whether they can redeem themselves...
You’re not Woodward and Bernstein!
October 08, 2020 05:41 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThis week, we can’t not talk about the President of the United States contracting coronavirus. But instead of speculating about Trump’s illness and what it might mean, Emma and Chloe discuss what it reveals about American healthcare. They also take a look at the Senate, and how some previously safe seats like Lindsay Graham’s in South Carolina have some Republicans worried this election cycle. They also take a look at the role of the media in US politics, and the legacy of the Watergate sca...
You're not Woodward and Bernstein!
October 08, 2020 05:41 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThis week, we can’t not talk about the President of the United States contracting coronavirus. But instead of speculating about Trump’s illness and what it might mean, Emma and Chloe discuss what it reveals about American healthcare. They also take a look at the Senate, and how some previously safe seats like Lindsay Graham’s in South Carolina have some Republicans worried this election cycle. They also take a look at the role of the media in US politics, and the legacy of the Watergate sca...
Hanging by a Chad
October 01, 2020 06:34 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBChloe and Emma discuss how Aaron Sorkin’s the West Wing went from an alternate-world liberal consolation prize in the early 2000s, to playbook for the Obama White House, and now back again in the age of Trump. They also talk through what might happen if (when?) Trump contests the 2020 election, and how the Republican Party took advantage of an unclear result in 2000, leading to George W. Bush’s victory in the Supreme Court. They also explore the Electoral College, and its origins in 19th c...
A New Deal For America
September 24, 2020 00:13 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBIn the first episode of Season 3, This American Carnage, Emma looks at the way climate change and the West Coast fires are covered by the New York Times, while Chloe looks at vaccine nationalism and the politics of Big Pharma. They discuss the much-mythologized New Deal and whether President Joe Biden would be the new Franklin Roosevelt. And finally, they explain the powers the President holds and their limits. This time around, Emma and Chloe are adding something new: a weekly newsletter c...
Introducing Season Three - American Carnage
September 18, 2020 05:52 - 1 minute - 1.73 MBIn the year 2020 where everything seems to have gone wrong, your often confused, occasionally insightful and (sometimes) optimistic hosts Emma and Chloe are once again making sense of the present by looking at the past. In season three our historical experts go back four years, to when the world turned on its head when Donald Trump won the US Presidential election and set the stage for the now tumultuous present the United States finds itself in. This season, Shortis and Ward are using his...
Episode 11 Part 1 - Battle for Seattle
July 23, 2020 06:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB11.1 Battle for Seattle 11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice 11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended? Links Harry Cheadle, How Seattle Police...
Episode 11 Part 2 - The Algebra of Infinite Justice
July 23, 2020 06:00 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MB11.1 Battle for Seattle 11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice 11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended? Links Harry Cheadle, How Seattle Police...
Episode 11 Part 3 - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
July 23, 2020 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB11.1 Battle for Seattle 11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice 11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended? Links Harry Cheadle, How Seattle Police...
Barely Gettin By, Season 2, Ep11.3
July 23, 2020 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB11.1 Battle for Seattle 11.2 the Algebra of Infinite Justice 11.3 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) In this final episode, Chloe and Emma look at two, possible end dates for the 1990s: the 1999 Battle for Seattle, and 9/11. They then explore how Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was replaced by a ‘Clash of Civilisations’, what other stories they could have told about the 1990s, and try to answer the question of whether the long 1990s ever ended? Links Harry Cheadle, How Seattle Police...
Episode 10 - The Palace Letters
July 15, 2020 07:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBEpisode 10: The Palace Letters It’s a historical emergency! With the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ this week historians and journalists are promising answers to decades of questions about the 1975 Dismissal of the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. Chloe and Emma aren’t so sure. In this episode, they explain why the Palace Letters are important, how the media got the story wrong, and how historians can approach this new information. Links Jenny Hocking, ‘The big reveal: Jenny Hoc...
Episode 9 Part 2 - Oopsy Daisy
July 08, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBE9: Standing in Front of a Boy E9.2 Oopsy Daisy Emma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also left many...
Episode 9 Part 3 - Cassandra
July 08, 2020 08:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBE9: Standing in Front of a Boy E9.3: Cassandra Emma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also left many w...
Episode 9 Part 1 - My Heart Will Go On
July 08, 2020 08:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBE9: Standing in Front of a Boy E9.1 My Heart Will Go On Emma and Chloe confront the ghosts of pretty boys past, in this episode where they look at white masculinity in the 1990s and its legacy. They explore the careers of Leonardo DiCaprio and Hugh Grant, and how their careers and reputations have survived into the present while others’ didn’t. They also consider the ‘grunge’ movement, and how claims for the dissolution of the boundaries between men and women, despite some success, also le...
Episode 8 Part 2 - Handsome, clever, and rich
July 01, 2020 09:15 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBEpisode 8 In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today. 8.1 Stand By Your Man 8.2...
Episode 8 Part 3 - A truth, universally acknowledged
July 01, 2020 09:15 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBEpisode 8 In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today. 8.1 Stand By Your Man 8.2...
Episode 8 Part 1 - Stand By your Man
July 01, 2020 09:15 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBEpisode 8 In this episode, Emma and Chloe try to define what feminism meant in the 90s, through two of its icons: Hillary Clinton and … Jane Austen? They explore Hillary Clinton’s political career in the 1990s, and what her brand of feminism meant then, and means today. They then talk about the many, many Jane Austen adaptations made in the 90s, from Clueless to Bridget Jones’ Diary, how Class and Empire were lost from Austen, and how they might be revived today. 8.1 Stand By Your Man 8.2...
Episode 7 Part 1 - Rio to Ruin
June 24, 2020 10:30 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBEpisode 7: Pale Blue Dot E7.1 Rio to Ruin E7.2 Mr Vice President E7.3 Captain Planet On Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn...
Episode 7 Part 2 - Mr Vice President
June 24, 2020 10:30 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBEpisode 7: Pale Blue Dot E7.1 Rio to Ruin E7.2 Mr Vice President E7.3 Captain Planet On Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn...
Episode 7 Part 3 - Captain Planet
June 24, 2020 10:30 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBEpisode 7: Pale Blue Dot E7.1 Rio to Ruin E7.2 Mr Vice President E7.3 Captain Planet On Valentine’s Day, 1990, we humans received a love letter from space. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, from its position somewhere out past Neptune, turned around and took a picture of Earth, gifting us the iconic image that planetary scientist Carl Sagan would dub the ‘pale blue dot’. In this episode, Emma and Chloe ask why, when the decade opened with such promise for our little speck of dust in space, we didn...
Episode 6 - Living Through History
June 12, 2020 10:46 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBEpisode 6: Living Through History We have been captivated by Black Lives Matters protests of the past two weeks, which started in the USA and have quickly spread across the world. In this episode, Chloe and Emma talk about the toppling of statues of imperialists, slave traders and white supremacists in Britain and the USA, comparisons with German history and the remembrance of Germany’s Nazi past, and return to a question they’ve asked before on the podcast: is Trump’s America fascist? Lin...
Episode 5 Part 3 - Australia in the World
June 04, 2020 01:30 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBS2 E5: The 90s at Home E5.3 Australia in the World This week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to further Aborigi...
Episode 5 Part 1 - We did the dispossessing
June 04, 2020 01:30 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBS2 E5: The 90s at Home E5.1 We did the dispossessing E5.2 Australia at the End of History E5.3 Australia in the World This week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the...
Episode 5 Part 2 - Australia at the End of History
June 04, 2020 01:30 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBS2 E5: The 90s at Home E5.2 Australia at the End of History This week, Chloe and Emma return to home shores to explore Australia in the 1990s. On the domestic front, Australia was led by three Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, and John Howard. They discuss the economic legacy of the Hawke/Keating era, and wonder if current debates about the enduring legacy of the Accords obscure the dramatic economic reforms pursued by the Howard Government. They discuss Keating’s efforts to furthe...
Bonus Episode - The UN in the 90s
May 30, 2020 06:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBChloe speaks to Dr Charlie Hunt, Senior Research Fellow in the Social & Global Studies Centre at RMIT University, about the UN’s role in conflict and peacekeeping in the 90s, the lessons it learned and what they mean for today. Find out more about Charlie’s work at https://charlesthunt.com/ , and read his op-ed on the future of peacekeeping here: https://theconversation.com/why-covid-19-offers-a-chance-to-transform-un-peacekeeping-139416
Episode 4 Part 2 - Acts of Genocide
May 27, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBThe end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy ou...
Episode 4 Part 2 - Acts of Genocide
May 27, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBThe end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia; and the US ongoing debates about how, if it all, it can promote democracy ou...
Episode 4 Part 3 - Problems from Hell
May 27, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBE4: A Decade of Peace? Wars in the 90s E4.1: Killing in the Name E4.2 Acts of Genocide E4.3 Problems from Hell The end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somal...
Episode 4 Part 1 - Killing In The Name
May 27, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBE4: A Decade of Peace? Wars in the 90s E4.1: Killing in the Name E4.2 Acts of Genocide E4.3 Problems from Hell The end of the Cold War did not mean global peace. In this episode, Emma and Chloe talk about the US’ foreign policy, and how its interventions in foreign wars in the 1990s continue to shape the US’ global outlook today. They discuss the origins of the ideas of humanitarian warfare and liberal interventionism, and the US’ long history of foreign interventions; disasters in Somal...
Episode 3 Part 2 - Goodbye, Englands Rose
May 20, 2020 09:30 - 16 minutes - 15 MB3.1 Things Can Only Get Better 3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose 3.3 Different Class In this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why...
Episode 3 Part 3 - Different Class
May 20, 2020 09:30 - 18 minutes - 17 MB3.1 Things Can Only Get Better 3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose 3.3 Different Class In this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why...
Episode 3 Part 1 - Thing Can Only Get Better
May 20, 2020 09:30 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB3.1 Things Can Only Get Better 3.2 Goodbye, England’s Rose 3.3 Different Class In this episode, Emma and Chloe cross the Atlantic, moving on from ‘New Democrats’ to talk about ‘New Labour’. The 90s in Britain were a time when politicians, princesses, and pop stars promised modernisation of tired, worn-out traditions. But looking back on Tony Blair’s rise and the tragic death of Princess Di suggests not all was well beneath the surface of ‘Cool Britannia’. Chloe then goes on to explain why...
Episode 2 Part 3 - Its the (global) economy, stupid
May 13, 2020 07:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBEmma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in ...
Episode 2 Part 2 - Wading in The Swamp
May 13, 2020 07:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBEmma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in ...
Episode 2 Part 1- The Clintons America
May 13, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBEmma and Chloe turn their attention to the USA, in a decade where America, for better or worse, defined the world order. They discuss the mixed achievements of Bill Clinton’s presidency, including the 1994 assault weapons ban that, while a huge success at the time was compromised by a ‘sunset clause’ that ensured no permanent change to American gun culture. They then consider Republican attempts to frustrate Clinton’s presidency, and the right-wing operatives who, after cameo appearances in ...
Episode 1 Part 1 - The End of History
May 06, 2020 05:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBEmma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the ...
Episode 1 Part 3 - The Long 1990s
May 06, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBEmma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the ...
Episode 1 Part 2 - The End of the Cold War
May 06, 2020 05:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBEmma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the ...
The Long 1990s - Episode 1, Part 3
May 06, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBEmma Shortis and Chloe Ward are back, for a nostalgic but-not-uncritical take on the 1990s and what it means for today. In three instalments, they outline the ideas and the political and economic forces that set out what the 1990s would look like. They start with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s famous prediction of the ‘end of history’ and liberal triumph, before looking at the Cold War and its – surprising – peaceful end, and the much more cautious predictions about the ...