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On Religion
August 8, 2022
On Online Churches
A Discussion with Tim Hutchings
Tim Hutchings
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Tim Hutchings is a sociologist of digital religion. His Ph.D. (Durham University, 2010) was an ethnographic study of five online Christian churches. Dr. Hutchings is interested in the relationship …
Anthropology
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Interviews with anthropologists about their new books.
Food
August 8, 2022
What a Mushroom Lives For
Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
Michael J. Hathaway
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Miranda Melcher
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press, 2022) by Dr. Michael Hathaway pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western …
Anthropology
August 5, 2022
Sextarianism
Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Maya Mikdashi
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Alize Arıcan
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with …
Political Science
August 4, 2022
The Knowledge Polity
Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith
Hosted by
Lilly Goren
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …
Anthropology
August 4, 2022
Academic Outsider
Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Victoria Reyes
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Reighan Gillam
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …
Anthropology
August 3, 2022
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity
Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor
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Adam Bobeck
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research …
Intellectual History
August 1, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)
Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation
Mark Solovey
Hosted by
Keith Krueger
This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s Social Science for What? is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science policy or the history of …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
August 1, 2022
Tasting Paradise on Earth
Jiangnan Foodways
Jin Feng
Hosted by
Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Jin Feng of Grinnell College about her fascinating book Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (U Washington Press, 2019). Preparing and consuming food is an integral part …
Mobilities and Methods
July 29, 2022
The Diasporic Condition
Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World
Ghassan Hage
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Alize Arıcan
Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The …
Indian Religions
July 28, 2022
Democracy and Social Cleavage in India
Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal C. 2012-2021
Suman Nath
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Raj Balkaran
Suman Nath's book Democracy and Social Cleavage in India: Ethnography of Riots, Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal (2012-2021) (Routledge, 2022) explores the emergence of identity politics and violence at …
Anthropology
July 27, 2022
After The Apocalypse
Finding Hope in Organizing
Monika Kostera
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Joan Matamoros
Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. Monika Kostera's book After The Apocalypse: Finding Hope in Organizing (John Hunt, 2020) takes the apocalypse as …
Mobilities and Methods
July 26, 2022
Radical Resilience
Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility
Othon Alexandrakis
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Alize Arıcan
Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility (Cornell UP, 2022) relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the impoverishment of relentless austerity measures, compounding emergencies, and human disasters of …
Anthropology
July 26, 2022
Being Single in India
Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility
Sarah Lamb
Hosted by
Garima Jaju
Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In Being Single in India …
Critical Theory
July 26, 2022
The Flexibility Paradox
Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation
Heejung Chung
Hosted by
Dave O'Brien
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a professor of sociology and social policy at the University of …
Gender Studies
July 26, 2022
Tying the Knot
A Feminist/Womanist guide to Muslim Marriage in America
Kecia Ali
Hosted by
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
Are you a born, revert, or convert Muslim who is trying to navigate the puzzle that is Muslim marriage in America? Do you want an egalitarian and fair Muslim marriage …
Intellectual History
July 25, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 1 of 2)
Battles over Public Funding for the "Other Sciences" at the National Science Foundation
Mark Solovey
Hosted by
Keith Krueger
This is part one of a two part interview. "The social sciences have prospered best in the federal government where they have been included under broad umbrella classifications of the …
Chinese Studies
July 25, 2022
Chinese Village Life Today
Building Families in an Age of Transition
Gonçalo Santos
Hosted by
Suvi Rautio
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Gonçalo Santos (University of Coimbra), about his new book, Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition, which was published …
Military History
July 18, 2022
Why Humans Fight
The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence
Siniša Malešević
Hosted by
Christian Nielsen
In his book Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (2022, Cambridge University Press), Siniša Malešević emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting …
Middle Eastern Studies
July 18, 2022
South Yemen's Independence Struggle
Generations of Resistance
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
At its beginning in 2007, the Southern Movement in South Yemen was a loose merger of different people, most of them former army personnel and state employees of the People’s …
Mobilities and Methods
July 15, 2022
Victims of Commemoration
The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey
Eray Çayli
Hosted by
Alize Arıcan
“Confronting the past” has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as a litmus test of their democratization claims. Regardless of …
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