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Sociology
Interviews with sociologists about their new books.
May 20, 2026
Emotional Filipinos
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist …
May 20, 2026
Industrial Islamism
What explains the rise of religious populism in contemporary Turkish politics and society? How does industrialization help to explain change and…
May 19, 2026
Anxious Homes
Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market (Cornell UP, 2026) is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citi…
May 18, 2026
Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World
In a world marked by increasingly destructive ecological and meteorological upheavals, Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster,…
May 18, 2026
Taiwan
While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, Taiwan: A People’s History (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Evan N. Dawley cent…
May 17, 2026
The Secret Life of the Hotel
Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which…
May 15, 2026
Peace Infrastructures
Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might be unusual infrastructure builders, but they’re certainly not …
May 15, 2026
Radio ReOrient S14:7: Surveilling Muslimness in Denmark, with Amani Hassani, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
In this episode hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Amani Hassani, to discuss her most recent work around Islamophobia and Musli…
May 13, 2026
What's Real about Race?
Professor Rina Bliss teaches in the sociology department at Rutgers University, and has written on the social significance of genetic studies on intel…
May 13, 2026
Whispers in the Pews
Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America (NYU Press, 2026) reveals how mundane social interactions in an evangelical church s…
May 12, 2026
Reconceptualizing War
The field of Strategic Studies, which studies the use and threat of force for political purposes, has seen the repeated rise of concepts to dominate d…
May 9, 2026
Syrian Intellectuals in Exile
Zeina Al-Azmeh’s Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving (Cambridge UP, 2026) captures a group of intellectu…
May 8, 2026
Trigger Points
Today’s political debates are fiercely polarized. But looking beyond the headlines, The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Conte…
May 7, 2026
Fighting for a Foothold
Prince George’s County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Bl…
May 6, 2026
Career and Family
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female coll…
May 4, 2026
Manufacturing Religion:
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that…
May 4, 2026
Nationalism as a Way of Life
While nationalism is a term that is often associated with instability, violence, extremism, terrorism, wars and even genocide, in fact most forms of n…
April 30, 2026
Epochal Crisis
Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (Cambridge UP, 2025) is the most recent book from Professor William Robinson, Distinguished Profes…
April 29, 2026
A Volatile Picture
A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka (U Washington Press, 2026) by Dr. Vindhya Buthpitiya is a groundbreaking et…
April 28, 2026
The Future of Hiding
How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research i…