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January 22, 2021
Feral Atlas
The More-than-human Anthropocene
Anna L. Tsing
Hosted by Michael Vann
Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has …
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Anthropology
January 22, 2021
Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Hosted by John Traphagan
Reforms in Myanmar (formerly Burma) have eased restrictions on citizens' political activities. Yet for most Burmese, Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung shows in Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar (U Wisconsin Press, 2019), eking …
Sociology
January 21, 2021
Digital Nomads
In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy
Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In the space of a few weeks this spring, organizations around the world learned that many traditional, in-person jobs could, in fact, be performed remotely. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, however …
East Asian Studies
January 21, 2021
Being in North Korea
Andray Abrahamian
Hosted by Ed Pulford
As well as presenting practical challenges, addressing the question ‘what is it like in North Korea?’ raises ethical concerns around who is entitled to interpret life in a place so …
Indian Religions
January 20, 2021
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Chad M. Bauman
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict any more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, and …
East Asian Studies
January 20, 2021
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
Roberta Zavoretti
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences …
Anthropology
January 20, 2021
Channeling Moroccanness
Language and the Media of Sociality
Becky L. Schulthies
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social …
Sociology
January 19, 2021
Other End of the Needle
Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers
David C. Lane
Hosted by Michael Johnston
In The Other End of the Needle (Rutgers University Press, 2020), David C. Lane, Ph.D. investigates the intricacies of the tattoo industry. Particularly, Lane found that tattooing is more complex …
Christian Studies
January 19, 2021
Reformed Resurgence
The New Calvinist Movement and the Battle Over American Evangelicalism
Brad Vermurlen
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Since the turn of the millennium, American Evangelical Protestantism has seen a swell of interest in Calvinist theology. Variously described as the New Calvinism or Neo-Reformed Christianity, the latter half …
Systems and Cybernetics
January 18, 2021
Network Origins of the Global Economy
East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective
Hilton L. Root
Hosted by Tom Scholte
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narrative of progress, pundits and academics of all stripes find …
Ethnographic Marginalia
January 18, 2021
Studying LBGT Organizing in China
A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
Caterina Fugazzola
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the University of Chicago, about her research on the contemporary …
Japanese Studies
January 14, 2021
Creativity in Tokyo
Revitalizing a Mature City
Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai
Hosted by Jingyi Li
In Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City (Palgrave, 2020), Heide Imai and Matjaz Ursic focues on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in …
Art
January 12, 2021
Knowledge Beside Itself
Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics
Tom Holert
Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics (Sternberg Press, 2020) delves into …
Education
January 11, 2021
Walking with Strangers
Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise
Barbara Dennis
Hosted by Pengfei Zhao
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational Promise, published in 2020 by Peter Lang …
Chinese Studies
January 8, 2021
Recovering Histories
Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China
Nicholas Bartlett
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became “easier to …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
January 8, 2021
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and …
Military History
January 8, 2021
Adaptation Under Fire
How Militaries Change in Wartime
David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
Few human enterprises are as complex, dynamic, and unpredictable as war. Armed conflict substitutes the relatively ordered reality of peace with the undeniably chaotic reality of combat. Militaries, by design …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
January 7, 2021
Good Guys
How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace
David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to David Smith and Brad Johnson about their new book Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace (HBR Press, 2020). This episode addresses …
Japanese Studies
January 7, 2021
Immigrant Japan
Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
Gracia Liu-Farrer
Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millions of immigrants make their …
Medicine
January 6, 2021
The Structure of Moral Revolutions
Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
Robert Baker
Hosted by Claire Clark
We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex …
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