EPISODES OF TRENDING GLOBALLY​, A PODCAST PRODUCED BY THE WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY. 

Recording a podcast with the musicians Melvin Gibbs (L) and Vernon Reid (R), March 2018. Photo by John Mazza.

• Politics and Fashion in Revolutionary Cuba  How do clothes communicate power and project values in a culture?  Sociologist María Cabrera Arús and I discuss politics, power and fashion in the context of revolutionary Cuba.  

• Can Art Save US? A conversation about music, politics and money with musicians Will Calhoun and Vernon Reid, both founding members of the rock band Living Colour, and bassist and producer Melvin Gibbs.

 

• Violence, Fear and Upper-Class Seclusion in Mexican Cities A discussion of how wealthy Mexicans defend their privileges in the face of widespread criminal violence, with sociologist Ana Villarreal (Boston University).

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• The Middle Income Trap and the Politics of Skills Political scientists Richard F. Doner (Emory University) and Ben Ross-Schneider (MIT) discuss their research on why developing countries often get "stuck" at middle income levels.