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NBN Episodes hosted by Nivedita:

Nicholas C. Kawa, "Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, and Forests" (U Texas Press, 2016)

September 5, 2017

Amazonia in the Anthropocene

Nicholas C. Kawa
Hosted by Nivedita Kar

Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age…

Gareth M. Thomas, "Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic" (Routledge, 2017)

August 15, 2017

Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics

Gareth M. Thomas
Hosted by Nivedita Kar

Drawing on an ethnography of Down's syndrome screening in two UK clinics, Gareth M. Thomas' Down's Syndrome and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, a…

Bruce O'Neill, "The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order" (Duke UP, 2017)

July 28, 2017

The Space of Boredom

Bruce O'Neill
Hosted by Nivedita Kar

In The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Duke University Press, 2017) Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by global…

Lotta Bjorklund Larsen,"Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency" (Berghahn Books, 2017)

May 2, 2017

Shaping Taxpayers

Lotta Bjorklund Larsen
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How do you make taxpayers comply? Lotta Bjorklund Larsen's ethnography, Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency (Berghahn Boo…

Kathleen McAuliffe, "This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society" (Mariner Books, 2017)

March 21, 2017

This is Your Brain on Parasites

Kathleen McAuliffe
Hosted by Nivedita Kar

Kathleen McAuliffe's This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society (Mariner Books, 2017) unveils the w…