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Sociology
Economics May 7, 2021

Post Growth

Life after Capitalism

Tim Jackson

Hosted by Andrea Bernardi
I spoke with Prof. Tim Jackson about his latest book: Post Growth, Life after Capitalism, published by Polity Books in 2021. The book starts with a reflection on the event …

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Law May 7, 2021

A Pattern of Violence

How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice

David Alan Sklansky

Hosted by Samuel Newton
In the wake of the George Floyd killing, many Americans are engaging in a renewed debate about the role violence and especially police violence, plays in American society. In A …
Sociology May 6, 2021

Gentrification Down the Shore

Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In Gentrification Down the Shore (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between …
Critical Theory May 6, 2021

Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

Michael L. Siciliano

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Queen's University …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work May 6, 2021

Nothing About Us Without Us

Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research

Dilara Yarbrough

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Today I talked to Dilara Yarbrough about her article "Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research," published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (2019). Dilara …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 6, 2021

You're Invited

The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence

Jon Levy

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Jon Levy about his new book You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence (Harper Business, 2021). Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist who over a decade …
Geography May 5, 2021

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance

Patrick Vitale

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
From submarines to the suburbs--the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh's eastern …
Anthropology May 5, 2021

Wade Davis Discusses His Life and Work

Wade Davis

Hosted by Keith Krueger
"… I am an axe; And my son a handle, soon; To be shaping again, model; And tool, craft of culture; How we go on." - Gary Snyder, Axe Handles (1983) "… wisdom …
Southeast Asian Studies May 3, 2021

Democracy for Sale

Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot

Hosted by Michele Ford
In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism saturates the political system through everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and …
Sociology May 3, 2021

The Promise of Access

Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

Daniel Greene

Hosted by Patrick Sheehan
Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and …
Sociology May 3, 2021

Privilege Lost

Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall

Jessi Streib

Hosted by Michelle Newhart
Talking about social class and the American class structure is a challenge. It can be easy to talk about the class system too rigidly, implying that “the rich stay rich …
Philosophy May 3, 2021

The Epistemology of Groups

Jennifer Lackey

Hosted by Robert Talisse
We commonly ascribe beliefs and similar attitudes to groups. For instance, we say that a foreign government believes that members of the press are spies, or that a corporation denies …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast May 3, 2021

Love Lives

From Cinderella to Frozen

Carol Dyhouse

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life's problems. But over …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work April 30, 2021

Criminality at Work

Katie Cruz

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Dr Katie Cruz contributed a chapter titled "The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work" to the book Criminality at Work (Oxford UP, 2020). In this podcast, Dr Cruz talks …
World Christianity April 30, 2021

Understanding Korean Christianity

Grassroot Perspectives on Causes, Culture, and Responses

K. Kale Yu

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The cultural landscape plays a momentous role in the transmission of Christianity. Consequently, the global expansion of the church has led to the increasing diversification of world Christianity. As a …
Music April 30, 2021

In Concert

Performing Musical Persona

Philip Auslander

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Throughout In Concert: Performing Musical Persona (University of Michigan Press, 2021), Dr. Philip Auslander addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and physical gesture …
Critical Theory April 29, 2021

Working Aesthetics

Labour, Art and Capitalism

Danielle Child

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work April 29, 2021

The Black Queer Work of Ratchet

Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability

Nikki Lane

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Nikki Lane's The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight April 29, 2021

Just Work

Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair

Kim Scott

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Kim Scott about her new book Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair (St. Martin's Press, 2021).  Kim Scott and her fellow guest on this episode …
Latin American Studies April 23, 2021

Uncertain Citizenship

Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile

Megan Ryburn

Hosted by Elena McGrath
Megan Ryburn’s Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile (University of California Press, 2018) is a multi-sited ethnography of citizenship practices of Bolivian migrants in Chile. The book asks …