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Religion May 28, 2023

The Women’s Mosque of America

Authority and Community in US Islam

Tazeen M. Ali

Hosted by Joseph Stuart
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the WMA has provided a …

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Islamic Studies May 26, 2023

Broken

The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion

Evelyn Alsultany

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), Evelyn Alsultany, Professor at the University of Southern California, argues that, even amid challenges to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives …
Madison's Notes May 26, 2023

Missing: Men at Work

A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt

Nick Eberstadt

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America's low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped out of the workforce altogether. Our …
Sociology May 25, 2023

The Political Economy of Fortune and Misfortune

Prospects for Prosperity in Our Times

Scott Timcke

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Luck greatly influences a person's quality of life. Yet little of our politics looks at how institutions can amplify good or bad luck that widens social inequality. But societies can …
Sociology May 24, 2023

Decolonize Self-Care

Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoe Meleo Erwin

Hosted by Michael Johnston
For twentieth-century feminists, it was a rallying cry for bodily autonomy and political power. For influencers and lifestyle brands, it’s buying fancy nutrition and body products at a premium. And …
Science, Technology, and Society May 24, 2023

Stroller

Amanda Parrish Morgan

Hosted by Frances Sacks
Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although its association with wealth …
Geography May 24, 2023

Over Researched Places

Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach

Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken's Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on …
Madison's Notes May 23, 2023

After the Pill

A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt

Mary Eberstadt

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
The pill has rocked our society to its core: but have we fully examined all its repercussions? Influential author and essayist Mary Eberstadt thinks we've only scratched the surface; in …
American West May 23, 2023

Resisting Change in Suburbia

Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.

James Zarsadiaz

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The myth of the frontier West found its home in America's late twentieth century suburbs, argues University of San Francisco associate professor James Zarsadiaz in Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and …
High Theory May 23, 2023

Party

A Discussion with Sheila Liming

Sheila Liming

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Sheila Liming talks about the party, social gatherings that occasion joy and dread and various emotions in between. The party is both a pause and an acceleration in the life-work …
Anthropology May 22, 2023

Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas

Social, Political, and Economic Realities

Samantha Nogueira Joyce

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities (Lexington Books, 2022), Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing …
Anthropology May 21, 2023

Life Beyond Waste

Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan

Waqas Butt

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state institutions and informal economies. What do these transformations look …
Religion May 21, 2023

Conspirituality

How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker

Hosted by Blair Hodges
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat (PublicAffairs, 2023) is a much-needed analysis of wellness, new age, and yoga influencers who’ve gone down the rabbit hole …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work May 20, 2023

Sexed Up

How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

Julia Serano

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Julia Serano about her new book, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us and How We Can Fight Back (Seal, 2022). Serano is an activist, performer, and acclaimed author of Whipping …
MIT Press Podcast May 20, 2023

Infrastructural Brutalism

Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

Michael Truscello

Hosted by MIT Press
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contemporary capitalism. In …
South Asian Studies May 20, 2023

Composing Violence

The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities

Moyukh Chatterjee

Hosted by Yash Sharma
In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand …
Anthropology May 19, 2023

Istanbul Appearances

Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey

Claudia Liebelt

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly common practice, especially among younger and …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 19, 2023

The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India

Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

Ritanjan Das and Nilotpal Kumar

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
How is urban India changing? And how do communities inhabit and transform India’s new cities and urban spaces? In this episode Kenneth Bo Nielsen is joined by Ritanjan Das to …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 18, 2023

The Invisible Machine

The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life

Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Eugene Lipov about his new book (co-authored with Jamie Mustard), The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life (BenBella …
Sociology May 17, 2023

The Political Durkheim

Sociology, Socialism, Legacies

Matt Dawson

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Matt Dawson's The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies (Routledge, 2023) presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that …