Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaren Pechilis et al. ed., "Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 331
Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2023) is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery t…
2 years ago
Hemjyoti Medhi, "Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 357
Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam (Oxford UP, 2024) is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive appraisal of t…
2 years ago
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, "Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 299
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveal…
2 years ago
Ariana Mangual Figueroa, "Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 230
Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling.
There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that chi…
2 years ago
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, "The Gravity of Hope" (Crossed Arrows, 2023)
Episode 356
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay's book The Gravity of Hope (Crossed Arrows, 2023) is a non-fictional account of women’s lives who sometimes endured, often re…
2 years ago
Matilda Bickers, "Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex" (PM Press, 2023)
Episode 41
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (PM Press, 2023) is an intimate portrait of the lives o…
2 years ago
Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola, "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 10
How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work.
Board games to sports, digital games to…
2 years ago
Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne, "Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 355
Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time…
2 years ago
Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor, "Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 93
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but als…
2 years ago
Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 453
In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do women still accumulate less wealth than men? Combining quantitati…
2 years ago