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August 9, 2022
The Literacy Myth
Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century
Harvey J. Graff
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Nathan Moore
Harvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative …
Sociology
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Interviews with sociologists about their new books.
Interpretive Political and Social Science
August 9, 2022
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
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Nick Cheesman
Anastasia Shesterinina begins Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) with an account of Georgian troops crossing into eastern Abkhazia, in the Southern Caucasus …
Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
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Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …
On Religion
August 8, 2022
On Online Churches
A Discussion with Tim Hutchings
Tim Hutchings
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Gregory Soden
Dr. Tim Hutchings is a sociologist of digital religion. His Ph.D. (Durham University, 2010) was an ethnographic study of five online Christian churches. Dr. Hutchings is interested in the relationship …
Critical Theory
August 8, 2022
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice
Nasar Meer
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Dave O'Brien
Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of …
Darts & Letters
August 8, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob
The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
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Gordon Katic
This week, we’re showcasing some of our favourite past episodes of Darts and Letters themed around “Activism & Academia”. Today’s episode originally aired a little earlier this summer. In the …
Anthropology
August 5, 2022
Sextarianism
Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Maya Mikdashi
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Alize Arıcan
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with …
Economics
August 4, 2022
The Effect
An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
Nick Huntington-Klein
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Peter Lorentzen
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality (Routledge, 2021) is about methods for using observational data to make causal inferences. It provides an extensive discussion of causality and …
Political Science
August 4, 2022
The Knowledge Polity
Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith
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Lilly Goren
Paul A. Djupe, Anand Edward Sokhey, and Amy Erica Smith, The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences (Oxford UP, 2022) explores a more holistic understanding of knowledge production in …
Anthropology
August 4, 2022
Academic Outsider
Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Victoria Reyes
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Reighan Gillam
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …
Indian Religions
August 4, 2022
Gods in the Time of Democracy
Kajri Jain
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Raj Balkaran
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is …
Anthropology
August 3, 2022
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity
Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor
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Adam Bobeck
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research …
Music
August 3, 2022
DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media
Ellis Jones
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Gummo Clare
Since the 1970s, there has been a rich, global lineage of broadly guitar-based music scenes which have enacted a political critique of the commercial music industries under the banner of …
Education
August 3, 2022
Why They Hate Us
How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education
Lindsay Pérez Huber and Susana M. Muñoz
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Autumn Wilke
Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) examines how racist political rhetoric has created damaging and dangerous conditions for Students of Color in schools …
Critical Theory
August 1, 2022
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
Daniel Laurison
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Dave O'Brien
Who runs American politics? In Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us (Beacon Press, 2022), Daniel Laurison, an associate professor …
Intellectual History
August 1, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)
Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation
Mark Solovey
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Keith Krueger
This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s Social Science for What? is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science policy or the history of …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
August 1, 2022
Tasting Paradise on Earth
Jiangnan Foodways
Jin Feng
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Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Jin Feng of Grinnell College about her fascinating book Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways (U Washington Press, 2019). Preparing and consuming food is an integral part …
Mobilities and Methods
July 29, 2022
The Diasporic Condition
Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World
Ghassan Hage
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Alize Arıcan
Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The …
Education
July 28, 2022
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack
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Joao Souto-Maior
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it …
Latin American Studies
July 28, 2022
Region Out of Place
The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968
Courtney J. Campbell
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Brad Wright
The Brazilian Northeast has long been a marginalized region with a complex relationship to national identity. It is often portrayed as impoverished, backward, and rebellious, yet traditional and culturally authentic …
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