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About Sneha Annavarapu
Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. To know more about Sneha's work, please visit www.snehanna.com
NBN Episodes hosted by Sneha:
Ethnographic Marginalia
May 10, 2022
Studying Borderlands
Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh
Sahana Ghosh
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
How do border policing and violence intersect with gender and sexuality to affect border communities? Today’s guest, Dr. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore …
Sociology
March 31, 2022
The Politics of Surviving
How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath
Paige Sweet
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if domestic violence …
Anthropology
February 9, 2022
The Moving City
Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure
Rashmi Sadana
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (U California Press, 2022) is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the …
South Asian Studies
January 26, 2022
Bombay Brokers
Lisa Björkman
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who is able …
Anthropology
January 25, 2022
Taxis Vs. Uber
Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires
Juan Manuel del Nido
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public, and Argentina's …
South Asian Studies
December 7, 2021
Brutal Beauty
Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City
Jisha Menon
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City (Northwestern UP, 2021) follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of the Indian economy …
Ethnographic Marginalia
November 4, 2021
Doing an Ethnography of Policing
In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
Sarah Brayne
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
How has the use of big data and algorithms changed policing and police surveillance? On this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University …
Anthropology
September 7, 2021
Crooked Cats
Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene
Nayanika Mathur
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become …
South Asian Studies
August 10, 2021
Special Treatment
Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Anna Ruddock
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital rapidly gained …
Sociology
August 10, 2021
At Risk
Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response
Gowri Vijayakumar
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors …
Sociology
July 22, 2021
Chasing World-Class Urbanism
Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires
Jacob Lederman
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishing creative districts …
Ethnographic Marginalia
July 16, 2021
Violence, Gender, and Policing in Colombia
In Conversation with Dr. Jon Gordon
Jon Gordon
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
In today’s interview, we speak with Dr. Jon Gordon, incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University, who tells us about his research with criminalized men in an armed …
Sociology
May 11, 2021
Capable Women, Incapable States
Negotiating Violence and Rights in India
Poulami Roychowdhury
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
How do women claim rights against violence in India and with what consequences? By observing how survivors navigate the Indian criminal justice system, Roychowdhury provides a unique lens on rights …
Anthropology
April 13, 2021
Waiting Town
Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories
Lisa Björkman
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories (Association for Asian Studies, 2020) is an …
Ethnographic Marginalia
April 8, 2021
New Ethnographies of the Global South
In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the University of …
Anthropology
April 6, 2021
Cartographies of Youth Resistance
Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico
Maurice Rafael Magaña
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant …
South Asian Studies
March 15, 2021
A Social Theory of Corruption
Notes from the Indian Subcontinent
Sudhir Chella Rajan
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestations are bribery and …
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 …
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