About Hannah Pool

I am an economic sociologist, interested in human mobilities, climate change, and ethnographies and my own book will be published with Oxford University Press in spring 2025. Currently, I am a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies which focuses on political economy and economic sociology.

NBN Episodes hosted by Hannah:

Johanna Lukate, "(Dis)Entangled: Black Hair, Race, and Identity" (Coronet, 2025)

January 16, 2026

(Dis)Entangled

Johanna Lukate
Hosted by Hannah Pool

Even before we get to introduce ourselves by name, our hair has already started to tell stories about who we are, where we are from and where we are a…

Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)

December 23, 2025

Mapping the Transnational World

Emanuel Deutschmann
Hosted by Hannah Pool

Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it r…

Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

November 12, 2025

Governing the End

Lisa Vanhala
Hosted by Hannah Pool

A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens…

R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)

October 25, 2025

Slow Burn

R. Jisung Park
Hosted by Hannah Pool

R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and t…

Bettina Ng′weno, "No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi" (U of California Press, 2025)

August 21, 2025

No Place Like Home in a New City

Bettina Ng′weno
Hosted by Hannah Pool

Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis Nairobi, known as the Green City in the…

Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

July 6, 2025

Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate

Kelsea Best and Kayly Ober
Hosted by Hannah Pool

This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key conce…

Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)

May 11, 2025

After the Floods

Ken Conca
Hosted by Hannah Pool

One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks of…

Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)

April 16, 2025

Supply Chain Justice

Mary Bosworth
Hosted by Hannah Pool

In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national …

Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)

March 23, 2025

Migrants in the Digital Periphery

Matt Mahmoudi
Hosted by Hannah Pool

As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance indus…

David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)

March 2, 2025

The Empire of Climate

David N. Livingstone
Hosted by Hannah Pool

Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet an…

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement" (Duke UP, 2023)

January 27, 2025

Architecture of Migration

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Hosted by Hannah Pool

Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in…