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Back to SearchMatthew Schneider-Mayerson et al., "Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 112
There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; how…
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Fran Martin, "Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 290
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in …
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Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 252
Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated…
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Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 146
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, Americ…
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Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)
Episode 234
Nancy Folbre’s The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy (Verso, 2021) asks the questions of why and under wha…
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Daniel Feierstein, "Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 206
Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide (Routledge, 2024) explores how memories and representations shape our understanding …
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Charlotte Setijadi, "Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Episode 141
The ethnic Chinese have had a long and problematic history in Indonesia, commonly stereotyped as a market-dominant minority with dubious political lo…
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Jonas Tinius, "State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 289
State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration (Cambridge UP, 2023) is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public…
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Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 320
Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and reli…
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Foster Care, Family, and Social Class: A Conversation with Rob Henderson
Episode 99
Robert Kim Henderson, a recently-minted psychology PhD from Cambridge and prominent essayist, had a troubled childhood. A victim of child abuse, he w…
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