Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrancisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 3668
How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Heather Shay, "Identity Building Among Role-Playing Gamers: Slaying Goblins in the Real World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 3667
In Identity Building Among Role-Playing Gamers: Slaying Goblins in the Real World (Bloomsbury 2025), Heather Shay draws from 19 months of participant…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Ida Susser, "The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy: Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2026)
Episode 414
Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the United States and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of th…
6 months ago
Mujun Zhou, "The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Episode 132
In a society undergoing rapid transformation, how do people engage in debates around a foreign concept and in doing so, pursue contested political fu…
6 months ago
Berardino Palumbo, "Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power" (Berghahn Books, 2026)
Episode 412
Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power is an anthropological exploration of how authority is produced not only through vio…
6 months ago
Abigail Ocobock, "Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 81
It is no secret that marriage rates in the United States are at an all-time low. Despite this significant decline, the institution of marriage endure…
6 months ago
Lia Kent, "The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Episode 3662
“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholar…
6 months, 1 week ago
Gwyneth Lonergan, "Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK" (Bristol UP, 2025)
Episode 3661
Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity C…
6 months, 1 week ago
Yingyi Ma, "Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 3659
In Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education (Columbia UP, 2020), sociologist Yingyi Ma o…
6 months, 1 week ago
Larry M. Bartels and Katherine J. Cramer, "The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Episode 3660
Few time periods have been as defined by waves of monumental social change as the United States during the 1960s. Even today, almost sixty years late…
6 months, 1 week ago