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Indian Religions
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Holy Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Banu Subramaniam
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Raj Balkaran
In Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), Banu Subramaniam examines how science and religion have come together to propel a vision of the modern Indian nation …
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Critical Theory
May 12, 2022
The Politics of Immunity
Security and the Policing of Bodies
Mark Neocleous
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Catriona Gold
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The …
Medicine
May 12, 2022
The Cage of Days
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral
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Rachel Pagones
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
May 12, 2022
Building Behavioral Science in an Organization
Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman
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Dan Hill
Today I talked to Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman about their book Building Behavioral Science in an Organization (Action Design Press, 2021). As an academic discipline, behavioral science is as the book’s …
Critical Theory
May 12, 2022
Proxies
The Cultural Work of Standing In
Dylan Mulvin
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Dave O'Brien
What are the hidden histories of how the modern world functions? In Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (MIT Press, 2021), Dylan Mulvin, Assistant Professor in the Department of …
Critical Theory
May 11, 2022
Cancel Culture
A Critical Analysis
Eve Ng
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Louisa Hann
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media studies perspective, as both cancel practices (what people …
Sociology
May 11, 2022
The Sociology of Bullying
Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents
Christopher Donoghue
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Rituparna Patgiri
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from psychologists. The …
Education
May 11, 2022
A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying
Morteza Mahmoudi
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Galina Limorenko
Targets of bullying are often the most vulnerable members of the scientific workforce-they may be low-paid graduate students or postdocs, living in a foreign country, navigating a foreign language and …
Sociology
May 10, 2022
The Digital Frontier
Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
Sangeet Kumar
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Rituparna Patgiri
In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem has spawned to reveal how …
Catholic Studies
May 10, 2022
Millennial Missionaries
How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool
Katherine Dugan
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Allison Isidore
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
May 10, 2022
The Future of Opinion Polls
A Conversation with Mark Pack
Mark Pack
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Owen Bennett-Jones
As the culture wars intensify, it seems that all sources of neutral authority get challenged and that includes opinion polls. Accusations about bias and unreliability fly around and yet everyone …
Anthropology
May 10, 2022
Suspicion
Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
Nicole Charles
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Reighan Gillam
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of …
Ethnographic Marginalia
May 10, 2022
Studying Borderlands
Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh
Sahana Ghosh
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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
May 9, 2022
The Sound of Salvation
Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China
Guangtian Ha
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Irene Promodh
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in …
Science, Technology, and Society
May 9, 2022
Buy Now
How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
Emily West
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Noopur Raval
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy. Amazon is ubiquitous in our daily lives—we stream movies …
Anthropology
May 9, 2022
Collaborative Damage
An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization
Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen
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Adam Bobeck
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell UP, 2022) is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and …
Critical Theory
May 6, 2022
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski
The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
Dhanveer Singh Brar
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Gummo Clare
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) uses three Black electronic musics – footwork, grime, and the work of the …
Public Policy
May 6, 2022
The Advantage of Disadvantage
Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups
LaGina Gause
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Ursula Hackett
Does protest influence political representation? If so, which groups are most likely to benefit from collective action? The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups (Cambridge …
Geography
May 5, 2022
Building Something Better
Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change
Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman
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Stentor Danielson
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
May 4, 2022
Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
Pandemic Perspectives 9
Charles Foster
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Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law professor Charles Foster on how the coronavirus pandemic reveals …
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