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About Sneha Annavarapu
Sneha Annavarapu
is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sneha:
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 …
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 …
Anthropology
January 27, 2021
The Occupied Clinic
Militarism and Care in Kashmir
Saiba Varma
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir (Duke UP, 2020), Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most …
Ethnographic Marginalia
January 18, 2021
Studying LBGT Organizing in China
A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
Caterina Fugazzola
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the University of Chicago, about her research on the contemporary …
Ethnographic Marginalia
December 7, 2020
Introduction to 'Ethnographic Marginalia'
A Discussion with Alex Diamond and Sneha Annavarapu
Alex Diamond and Sneha Annavarapu
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Far too often, the most evocative and interesting experiences that come out of ethnographic fieldwork are pushed to the margins. In the first episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, series hosts Sneha …
South Asian Studies
November 30, 2020
The Truth Machines
Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India
Jinee Lokaneeta
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law …
Anthropology
November 24, 2020
Enduring Cancer
Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi
Dwaipayan Banerjee
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi (Duke UP, 2020), Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients …
South Asian Studies
November 20, 2020
Jugaad Time
Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India
Amit S. Rai
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as …
Food
November 9, 2020
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
James Staples
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication …
South Asian Studies
October 23, 2020
Brewing Resistance
Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India
Kristin Plys
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought …
Anthropology
August 24, 2020
Ishtyle
Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife
Kareem Khubchandani
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020) follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing …
South Asian Studies
August 10, 2020
1-800-Worlds
The Making of the Indian Call Center Economy
Mathangi Krishnamurthy
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Center Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018) chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of Indian call centre workers, and locates them within …