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Back to SearchSabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Episode 153
Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media incl…
7 months ago
Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 196
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Debora…
7 months ago
Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
Who gets involved in politics? In Capital, Privilege and Political Participation (Liverpool UP, 2025) Joe Greenwood-Hau a Lecturer in the John Smit…
7 months ago
Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. …
7 months ago
Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 166
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's bee…
7 months ago
Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate to su…
7 months, 1 week ago
Janice M. McCabe, "Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
We’re all familiar with the sentiment that “college is the best time of your life.” Along with a newfound sense of freedom, students have a unique op…
7 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 29
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one …
7 months, 1 week ago
Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 196
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exis…
7 months, 1 week ago
Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
Episode 306
In Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (University of Mass. Press, 2024), Dr. Jason Higgins examines the connections betwe…
7 months, 2 weeks ago