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Mobilities and Methods
Mobilities and Methods
February 3, 2021
Maxwell Street
Writing and Thinking Place
Tim Cresswell
Hosted by Benjamin Linder
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street …
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Mobilities and Methods
January 5, 2021
Coming Out to the Streets
LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Brandon Andrew Robinson
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.Based on …
Mobilities and Methods
December 21, 2020
The Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York
Sienna R. Craig
Hosted by Benjamin Linder
In The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020), anthropologist Sienna Craig examines the inter-generational shifts that increasingly transform the Mustang …
Mobilities and Methods
November 18, 2020
Beyond Exception
New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula
Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist …
Middle Eastern Studies
November 6, 2020
Return to Ruin
Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
Zainab Saleh
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford …
American Studies
October 23, 2020
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
Sara Luna
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 200 …
Middle Eastern Studies
September 28, 2020
Street Sounds
Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers—fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder …
South Asian Studies
September 21, 2020
Indian Sex Life
Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Durba Mitra
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics—deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In …
Art
September 3, 2020
Insurgent Aesthetics
Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War
Ronak K. Kapadia
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
In Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press), Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in …
Film
August 20, 2020
Arab Americans in Film
From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-representation
Waleed Mahdi
Hosted by Josephine Chaet
Dr. Waleed Mahdi’s book, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press) offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film …
Gender Studies
August 20, 2020
Work! A Queer History of Modeling
A Queer History of Modeling
Elspeth H. Brown
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and …
Mobilities and Methods
August 17, 2020
Disruptive Situations
Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Ghassan Moussawi
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut (Temple UP, 2020) challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a …
African Studies
August 10, 2020
The Fixer
Visa Lottery Chronicles
Charles Piot
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street …
Music
August 3, 2020
The Globally Familiar
Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Gabriel Dattatreyan
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke University Press, 2020), Gabriel Dattatreyan departs from the existing literature on masculinity in India, which …
Literary Studies
July 30, 2020
Fashioning Diaspora
Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture
Vanita Reddy
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
Vanita Reddy, in her book Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture (Temple University Press, 2016), locates diasporic transnationality, affiliations and intimacies through the analytic of beauty. Through …
Middle Eastern Studies
July 17, 2020
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt
Navigating the Margins of Respectability
L .L. Wynn
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
L.L. Wynn’s book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability (University of Texas Press) is an interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo …
Latino Studies
June 17, 2020
Marriage after Migration
An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico
Nora Haenn
Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky …
African American Studies
June 16, 2020
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
Kabria Baumgartner
Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America (NYU Press, 2019) is an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and …
American Studies
June 15, 2020
Borderline Citizens
The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration
Robert C. McGreevey
Hosted by Steven Rodriguez
In Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration (Cornell University Press 2018), Robert C. McGreevey explores the contested meaning and limits of citizenship for …
Caribbean Studies
June 10, 2020
Tides of Revolution
Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela
Cristina Soriano
Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (University of New Mexico Press, 2018), Cristina Soriano examines the links between the spread of radical …
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