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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 …
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