Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 119
While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach an…
2 years, 2 months ago
Paul Hansen, "Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Episode 292
As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of O…
2 years, 2 months ago
Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Episode 147
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Loren D. Lybarger, "Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 256
Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationali…
2 years, 2 months ago
Erin L. Durban, "The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 108
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Alexandrina Vanke, "The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 349
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial socie…
2 years, 3 months ago
Robert Bruno, "What Work Is" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 350
Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as Director of the…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ben Highmore, "Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 118
In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Robert Willim, "Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 128
Robert Willim's new book Mundania: How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary (Bristol University Press, 2024), takes the reader on a journey throu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ya-Wen Lei, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 348
Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomi…
2 years, 3 months ago