Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCarrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 136
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own compli…
1 year, 7 months ago
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 225
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are di…
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Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
Episode 36
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingr…
1 year, 7 months ago
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 214
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Wa…
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David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 122
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good convers…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Normative Sociological Approach to Secularism and Multiculturalism
Season 2 Episode 23
In this episode, Dr. Uzma Jamil introduces Tariq Modood on his new book “Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism”.
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1 year, 7 months ago
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 285
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the str…
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Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 141
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. …
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Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 131
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman's book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024) presents a modern argument, gro…
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Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
Episode 248
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasan…
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