Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 255
Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India (Stanford University Press, 2024). Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movem…
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Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
Episode 71
For more than 70 years, South Korea has woven the threat of North Korea into daily life. But now that threat has become mundane, and South Korean nat…
1 year, 4 months ago
Shehnaz Haqqani, "Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender" (Oneworld, 2024)
Episode 346
Shehnaz Haqqani's new book Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender (Oneworld 2024), masterfully blen…
1 year, 4 months ago
Pankaj Jain, "Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 367
Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond (Routledge, 2024) provides a unique inside…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 255
Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities…
1 year, 4 months ago
Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
Episode 130
In this episode, Emily Kenway shares insights from her powerful new book Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It (Seal Press,…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson, "The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 336
The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design (Duke UP, 2024) guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Episode 85
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Benjamin Shestakofsky about his book, Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 1516
Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi G…
1 year, 5 months ago
Stacy Torres, "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 396
To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped wi…
1 year, 5 months ago