Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAriana 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month ago
Fauzia Husain, "The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 354
As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed int…
2 years, 1 month ago
Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 526
If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across the figure of the “shrew,” a morally threatening woman who is ei…
2 years, 1 month ago
Harry Pettit, "The Labor of Hope:: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 298
Capitalism is not only an economic system but also a system of production and allocation of hope. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilli…
2 years, 1 month ago