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S5 E2 - Surekha Davies on Humans: A Monstrous History

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Surekha Davies argues monsters are 'simply a word with which people are saying something about what they know and what they don't know.'

Historian Surekha Davies discusses her new book 'Humans: A Monstrous History,' exploring how ideas about monsters from antiquity to the present have defined what it means to be human. She explains monsters as 'category breakers' that shaped scientific knowledge, colonial projects, and concepts of race and gender, drawing on sources from maps to pop culture.

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