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Sociology
Interviews with sociologists about their new books.
April 7, 2026
The Trouble with Freedom
As Melissa Butcher puts it in her book The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future (Manchester UP, 2026) when asked to rank the importan…
April 6, 2026
Governing the Excluded
The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely o…
April 6, 2026
The China Question
"The contempt and naive idealization of China are two sides of the same coin. The latter cannot be an antidote to the former." So argues Ho-Fung Hung…
April 1, 2026
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia (Cornell UP, 2026) by Dr. Kristina Jonuty…
March 30, 2026
Monastic Desires
Derek Krueger Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge UP, 2026) The Byzantine Abbot Symeo…
March 30, 2026
Caste and Tech
This episode features a conversation with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute about how caste structures IT workspaces and communication infrastru…
March 29, 2026
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela
The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market (Brill, 2026) is the latest book from Dr. Kristin Ciupa, As…
March 28, 2026
Cultural Mavericks
In recent decades, self-proclaimed “independent bookstores” have arisen across China. In the West, such retailers represent an alternative to corporat…
March 28, 2026
Fight, Flight, Mimic
Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a differ…
March 28, 2026
Precarious Accumulation
In Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou (Duke UP, 2026), the cultural anthropologist Nellie Chu tells the story of …
March 26, 2026
The Criminal Record Complex
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and th…
March 25, 2026
Work Won't Love You Back
In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Bold Type Books, 2021), Sarah Jaffe argues that modern…
March 23, 2026
Borícua Muslims
Ken Chitwood's Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam (University of Texas Press, 2025), uses rich ethnographi…
March 22, 2026
Bankminded
In today’s world, it is almost impossible to go through the day without interacting with a bank—whether through a salary payment, a debit card, a cred…
March 22, 2026
Irish Digital Cultures
Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space (Routledge, 2025) explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environm…
March 20, 2026
Now We Are Here
Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search of safety, stabil…
March 19, 2026
The Collective Cure
A powerful blend of deeply human stories and rigorous research, The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health (Beacon Press, 2026) …
March 19, 2026
The Unruly Facts of Race
What happens when theories of racial hierarchies interact with reality? How are they contested, refuted and changed in light of that encounter? What r…
March 17, 2026
Irreconcilable
Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous Nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, governme…
March 16, 2026
Upper Caste Liberalism
This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, abo…