Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
Episode 238
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which ex…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 29
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, sa…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 69
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital…
1 year, 8 months ago
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 58
Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 293
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 332
What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of In…
1 year, 8 months ago
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 744
As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists discuss the role of particular groups such as La…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 278
In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential …
1 year, 8 months ago
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 331
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ang…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)
Episode 390
The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2024), political theory researcher, author, and en…
1 year, 8 months ago