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Christian Studies February 26, 2021

@ Worship

Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds

Teresa Berger

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Digital dualism, or a sharp division between online and offline activity as "virtual" or "real" has long been a feature of liturgical studies and discussions around worship gatherings for theorists and …

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Ethnographic Marginalia February 26, 2021

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

Deborah A. Thomas

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and representation? On today’s episode …
History February 26, 2021

Ruling Culture

Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Fiona Greenland

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to talk about her new book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the …
Anthropology February 22, 2021

Streetwalking

LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

Ana-Maurine Lara

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ lives and …
Philosophy February 19, 2021

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Patricia Hill Collins

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or …
Genocide Studies February 17, 2021

Researching Perpetrators of Genocide

Kjell Follingstad Anderson and Erin Jessee

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. This can include overcoming biases …
Gender Studies February 15, 2021

MeToo

How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Hosted by Jana Byars
We are joined today by Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in the writers’ heaven that is Iowa City …
Southeast Asian Studies February 15, 2021

The Politics of Love in Myanmar

LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life

Lynette J. Chua

Hosted by Michele Ford
The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford UP, 2018) offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before …
Ethnographic Marginalia February 12, 2021

Front of the House, Back of the House

Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers

Eli Revelle Yano Wilson

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
How can ethnographic research shine light on the reproduction of social inequality in upscale Los Angeles restaurants? In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Eli Wilson, Assistant Professor of Sociology …
Political Science February 11, 2021

The Economic Other

Inequality in the American Political Imagination

Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky have written an incredibly timely and fascinating study of our understanding of income inequality in the United States, and how this understanding contributes to the …
Celebration Studies February 10, 2021

The Ethnography of Tourism

Edward Bruner and Beyond

Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Kathleen Adams

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Edited by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, and Kathleen M. Adams, The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2019) focuses on the experience-near, interpretive-humanistic approach to tourism studies widely associated …
Psychology February 9, 2021

Out of the Shadows

Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

Walt Odets

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
The progress that has been made by the gay rights movement can sometimes obscure the work that is still left to be done. In his new book, Out of the Shadows …
Sociology February 9, 2021

The Hinge

Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

Gary Alan Fine

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above (e.g., laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay employees wages, climate patterns …
Science, Technology, and Society February 5, 2021

Jim Crow Sociology

The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology

Earl Wright, II

Hosted by Chad Valasek
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology (U Cincinnati Press, 2020) is an extraordinary new volume that examines the origin, development, and significance of Black Sociology through the …
Medicine February 5, 2021

Abusive Policies

How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way

Mical Raz

Hosted by Claire Clark
In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio …
Celebration Studies February 4, 2021

Festive Devils of the Americas

Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino, and Paolo Vignolo

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil—the devil that dances—turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions …
Anthropology February 3, 2021

Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Emilia E. Skrzypek

Hosted by Alex Golub
Located amid tropical rainforest in the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific …
History February 2, 2021

First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship

Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers

Richard Lachmann

Hosted by Zeb Larson
Being a great power almost seems to invite discussion of decline: whether you are declining, what can be done to prevent or arrest it, and what the consequences of …
Psychology February 2, 2021

Make Your Move

The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge

Jon Birger

Hosted by Clint Sabom
Modern romance is broken. It's time to flip the script. Apps have transformed dating from a mysterious adventure into a daily chore. Young, single, college-educated women are sick and tired …
Ethnographic Marginalia February 1, 2021

Fútbol in the Park

Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties

David Trouille

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
What meaning does a daily soccer game in a public Los Angeles park have for a group of Latino men and the ethnographer who studied them? In today’s episode, we …