Sanctions As Siege Warfare w/ Manu Karuka

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries (check out our earlier episodes from the series if you've not already!). In this episode, we lay out some very interesting historical and analytical parallels between sieges throughout history and modern sanctions regimes. A fascinating conversation with a great scholar and committed anti-imperialist, you don't want to miss this! Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!

Manu Karuka is Assistant Professor of American Studies affiliated faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. He is author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019).

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:23.0	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:37.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussain, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing? I'm doing well. It's great to be with you, Henry. It's always nice to see you. I know we just recorded another episode before we did this. So it hasn't been that long since I've seen you. But as I said in a Patreon exclusive one time, I can't take my eyes off of you at none. I can't get enough of that. All right. Also joined by my other co-host who I also can't get enough of Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett.
0:54.8	Again, long time. host who I also can't get enough of Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of
1:12.1	the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. Again, long time, well, not really a long time. Short time.
1:17.8	Lots of C. Lots of C, but that's good. That's good. The more, the better. How are you doing, Brad?
1:23.5	I'm doing good. Happy to be here. Absolutely. So before I introduce our guest, I just want to let the
1:29.5	listeners know that this is another installment of our ongoing Sanctions as War series. So for listeners
1:35.2	that haven't checked out the introductory episode, and at this point, when this episode comes out,
1:40.0	we'll have already had one case study come out. This is a series built around the book Sanctions as War, which is edited by our friends
1:48.7	Emmanuel Ness and Stuart Davison is really a tremendous work.
1:51.9	And we're running this mini series to help us understand conceptually what are sanctions,
1:56.9	sanctions regimes and the effect that they've had in various case studies. Even though we've
2:02.4	started running the case studies at this point, we wanted to go back and talk with Manu Karuka,
2:08.6	hopefully I got the pronunciation there, right, Manu, about his section in the book,
2:14.1	Hunger Politics, Sanctions as Siege Warfare, really a tremendous chapter and something
2:18.6	that we thought would be very valuable. So we are joined by Manu Karuka, Assistant Professor
2:23.8	of American Studies in the Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Barnard College,
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