Ep. 307 A Story We Tell Backward with Lauren Markham
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This episode features a discussion with journalist and writer Lauren Markham about her new book A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging. She explains why Greece interested her as a base for her writing about immigration, and how the border is used as a tool for autocracy. We also talk about the criminalization of migrants and refugees and what abolition in immigration could look like.
The Stacks Book Club selection for February is Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin. We will discuss the book on February 28th with Uché Blackstock.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host |
| 0:12.4 | Tracy Thomas, |
| 0:13.3 | and today we welcome to the Stacks award-winning author |
| 0:15.9 | Lauren Markham. |
| 0:17.4 | Lauren is here to talk about her new book, |
| 0:19.4 | a map of future ruins on borders and belonging. It follows the author's quest to trace her own Greek heritage |
| 0:25.3 | as well as recent immigration through Greece and a fire that destroyed Europe's |
| 0:30.1 | largest refugee camp. This book about immigration quickly turns into a |
| 0:34.4 | meditation on ancient history mythology and the predictive power of migration |
| 0:38.4 | stories. Lauren is also the author of a book that I absolutely loved the Faraway brothers, two young |
| 0:45.2 | migrants and the Making of an American Life. Today Lauren and I get to talk about |
| 0:49.3 | myth-making, how immigration activism is tied to abolition, and the idea of a ghost book. |
| 0:55.2 | Remember the Stax Book Club pick for February is viral justice how we grow the |
| 1:00.1 | world we want by Ruha Benjamin. I will be discussing this book on |
| 1:03.7 | Wednesday February 28th with Dr. Uche Blackstock. Quick reminder, everything we |
| 1:09.4 | talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. |
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