Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJamie Furlong and Will Jennings, "The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 488
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Furlo…
1 year, 6 months ago
Xiaoming Wang, "Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia" (de Gruyter, 2019)
Episode 328
As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people i…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 200
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopol…
1 year, 6 months ago
Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 387
Theo Williams’ Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation (Verso, 2022) shows how black …
1 year, 6 months ago
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga, "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 388
Neighborhoods have the power to form significant parts of our worlds and identities. A neighborhood's reputation, however, doesn't always match up to…
1 year, 6 months ago
Rebuild by Design: A Talk by Eric Klinenberg
Episode 72
In October 2010, Eric Klinenberg, NYU professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, spoke about his work on Rebuild by D…
1 year, 6 months ago
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
Episode 33
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with M…
1 year, 6 months ago
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 242
Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partis…
1 year, 6 months ago
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
Episode 230
What skills and strategies enable civil society to be effective under authoritarian rule? Dr. Runya Qiaoan, assistant professor and senior researcher…
1 year, 7 months ago
Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Episode 101
In All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Pegasus Book, 2024) richly detailed account, Virginia Nichols…
1 year, 7 months ago