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Mobilities and Methods May 18, 2022

Refuge

How the State Shapes Human Potential

Heba Gowayed

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption that this …

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Ethnographic Marginalia May 10, 2022

Studying Borderlands

Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh

Sahana Ghosh

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How do border policing and violence intersect with gender and sexuality to affect border communities? Today’s guest, Dr. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore …
Anthropology March 2, 2022

Mumbai Taximen

Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

Tarini Bedi

Hosted by Bhoomika Joshi
In Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (University of Washington Press, 2022), the first book-length study of Mumbai's taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from …
Anthropology February 9, 2022

The Moving City

Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure

Rashmi Sadana

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (U California Press, 2022) is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the …
Mobilities and Methods February 2, 2022

Fragments of the City

Making and Remaking Urban Worlds

Colin McFarlane

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for …
South Asian Studies January 26, 2022

Bombay Brokers

Lisa Björkman

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who is able …
Mobilities and Methods November 5, 2021

Scammer's Yard

The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

Jovan Scott Lewis

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor …
Mobilities and Methods October 13, 2021

Capital Development

Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State (1921-1946)

Harrison Guthorn

Hosted by Josephine Chaet
Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for the Anglo-Hashemite government first, and a city second. As …
Mobilities and Methods October 5, 2021

Urbanism Without Guarantees

The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood

Christian M. Anderson

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban …
Mobilities and Methods September 24, 2021

A City Is Not a Computer

Other Urban Intelligences

Shannon Mattern

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know …
Mobilities and Methods September 23, 2021

Set Adrift

Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai's Shores

Gayatri Nair

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
The Koli community in Mumbai-which has been practicing fishing for centuries-has experienced rapid changes over the last few decades, in the forms of increased mechanization, export of fish to global …
Mobilities and Methods July 16, 2021

Blackness in Morocco

Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture

Cynthia J. Becker

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums …
Mobilities and Methods July 7, 2021

Precarious Hope

Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey

Ayse Parla

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet access to citizenship …
Mobilities and Methods June 29, 2021

Jungle Passports

Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border

Malini Sur

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and …
Mobilities and Methods June 29, 2021

Dispossession and Dissent

Migrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid

Sophie L. Gonick

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held …
Mobilities and Methods June 25, 2021

The Current Economy

Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics

Canay Özden-Schilling

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity …
Anthropology June 22, 2021

Migrant Dreams

Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States

Samuli Schielke

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
A vivid ethnography of Egyptian migrants to the Arab Gulf states, Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States (AU in Cairo Press, 2020) is about the imagination which migration …
Mobilities and Methods June 11, 2021

The Outside

Migration As Life in Morocco

Alice Elliot

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Indiana UP, 2021) traces how migration has come to occupy a striking place in the lives of many Moroccans. A full 10 percent of …
Mobilities and Methods June 8, 2021

Working Out Desire

Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul

Sertaç Sehlikoglu

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul (Syracuse UP, 2020) examines spor merakı as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu …
Mobilities and Methods June 3, 2021

The Migrant's Paradox

Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain

Suzanne M. Hall

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street …