Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 266
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 111
The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A Histor…
2 years, 5 months ago
Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Episode 5
Dr. Halsall’s Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis (Ohio State UP, 2023) has four primary objectives.
One, it explores this visual an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 6
Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul (MIT Press, 2023) challenges the popul…
2 years, 5 months ago
Laleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023)
Episode 77
The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all…
2 years, 5 months ago
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the managemen…
2 years, 5 months ago
Curtis Smith, "Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 323
Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors (Routledge, 2022) reveals the creative and ambitious…
2 years, 6 months ago
Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky, "Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 2
An essay collection exploring the board game's relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of…
2 years, 6 months ago
What Reality TV Says About Us
Episode 2
Reality TV shapes and reflects how we see ourselves, and what we regard as normal. Professor Danielle J. Lindemann watched thousands of hours of real…
2 years, 6 months ago
Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 212
Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical a…
2 years, 6 months ago