About Cody Skahan

Cody Skahan (cskahan@ksu.edu) is an anthropologist by training, starting an MA program in Anthropology at the University of Iceland in August 2022 as a Leifur Eriksson Fellow. His work focuses on the intersections of queerness, environmentalisms, and tourism in Iceland. Cody has a blog at where he sometimes writes about Games User Research and will totally, 100% in the future post the podcast and other projects he is working on.

Cody Skahan (cas12@hi.is) is a student in the MA program in Anthropology at the University of Iceland as a Leifur Eriksson Fellow. His work focuses on environmentalism in Iceland, especially the social and political implications of the youth environmentalist movement in an arctic country that has created for itself a façade of being environmentally and socially progressive. Cody co-hosts a social theory and anthropology podcast with two of his friends called Un/livable Cultures (https://unlivablecultures.wordpress.com/) available wherever you get podcasts and has a blog (https://codyskahan.wordpress.com/( where he is trying to write more rather than just only read and talk about books.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Cody:

Todd McGowan, "Enjoyment Right & Left" (Sublation Media, 2022)

April 11, 2023

Enjoyment Right & Left

Todd McGowan
Hosted by Cody Skahan

Today I talked to Todd McGowan about his book Enjoyment Right & Left (Sublation Media, 2022). While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure…

David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)

February 21, 2023

Negative Ecologies

David Bond
Hosted by Cody Skahan

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossil…

Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

February 5, 2023

Half-Life of a Secret

Emily Strasser
Hosted by Cody Skahan

In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee.…

Jonathan Crary, "Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World" (Verso, 2022)

June 22, 2022

Scorched Earth

Jonathan Crary
Hosted by Cody Skahan

In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal …

Lin Song, "Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)

June 10, 2022

Queering Chinese Kinship

Lin Song
Hosted by Cody Skahan

China has one of the largest queer populations in the world, but what does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, an…