Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Episode 3611
Scotland is a nation that has undergone significant changes over the last 50 years or so. This is, of course, true of much of the Western world but, …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
Episode 3610
An ethnography of indigenous lives amidst subsistence labor, large-scale logging, and unrealized schemes, We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and…
9 months ago
The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao
Episode 3608
TCP’s inaugural episode features Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao, two scholars whose academic work and activism have helped to set the parameters of the…
9 months ago
Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 100
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic field…
9 months ago
Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, "By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Episode 3607
In both the United States and France, each side of the legal battle over same-sex marriage and parenthood relied heavily on experts. Despite the simi…
9 months ago
163* The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
Episode 3605
As Oscar Season rolls around, Recall This Book looks back to John's 2019 discussion with Columbia University professor Sharon Marcus about The Drama …
9 months ago
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Episode 3606
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flou…
9 months ago
Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 3604
Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis (Cornell UP, 2025) by Dr. Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement res…
9 months, 1 week ago
Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 3603
Gaining mass popularity in the mid-1990s with the True Love Waits rally on the Washington Mall, purity culture began as an urge from evangelical cons…
9 months, 1 week ago
Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 3602
Who are the people staffing the digital economy? In The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism (MIT Press, 2025) Robert …
9 months, 1 week ago