{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Gender","slug":"new-books-in-gender-612984","podcast_index_feed_id":612984,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT3077747900","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f01fabce-f1a3-11e8-8461-f77ace4487d2/image/e2241d70e6072e60f482d28cf495fbab.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1000,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T16:22:32.043062+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984"},"episode":{"title":"Don Thomas Deere, \"The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space\" (Duke UP, 2026)","slug":"don-thomas-deere-the-invention-of-order-on-the-coloniality-of-space-duke-up-2026","published_at":"2026-06-11T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984/don-thomas-deere-the-invention-of-order-on-the-coloniality-of-space-duke-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1810281667.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1810281667.mp3","summary":"In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, gender as well as understandings of global modernity. The coloniality of space dispossessed Indigenous, African, and mixed populations as it constructed new systems of control and movement. Deere demonstrates how these developments manifested, among other forms, in urban grid patterns imposed during the development of Spanish colonial cities as well as totalizing trade routes crisscrossing the Atlantic. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Enrique Dussel, Édouard Glissant, and Sylvia Wynter, Deere reveals how movement—who travels, who settles, and who is excluded—becomes an essential component of control under colonial rule. Against the violence of spatial reordering, Deere outlines how novel forms of resistance and insurgency geographies still take hold, particularly in the Caribbean, where landscapes remain excessive, eruptive, and uncaptured by the order of modernity. Don Thomas Deere is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University. He previously taught at Wesleyan University and received his PhD with distinction from DePaul University and BA from Cornell University. He is a Mellon Mays fellow and the recipient of a Mellon Career Enhancement Faculty Fellowship. His research focuses on the intersections of Latin American, Caribbean, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectu…","meta_description":"In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organiz…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2762,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-gender-612984/episodes/don-thomas-deere-the-invention-of-order-on-the-coloniality-of-space-duke-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984/don-thomas-deere-the-invention-of-order-on-the-coloniality-of-space-duke-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}