Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 130
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of …
2 years, 4 months ago
Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 706
Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50 percent of the global workforce, and yet scholarly understandings of informal workers’ …
2 years, 4 months ago
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 114
“The things that are happening to North Korea are happening to all of us…they are part of the human community. To say that this is just a problem for…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jack Levin and Julie B. Wiest, "Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless" (Bristol University Press, 2023)
Episode 211
Covert violence occurs in all social institutions—including families and close relationships, education, workplaces, politics, mass media, and health…
2 years, 4 months ago
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 60
"Most lawyers, most actors, most soldiers and sailors, most athletes, most doctors, and most diplomats feel a certain solidarity in the face of outsi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 340
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically u…
2 years, 4 months ago
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
Episode 285
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was ni…
2 years, 4 months ago
Rebecca Roache, "For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 332
Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kunal Purohit, "H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars" (HarperCollins, 2023)
Episode 217
Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India's dusty,…
2 years, 4 months ago
Language Makes the Place
Episode 4
Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility.
Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how language…
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