Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Abel, "Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 201
Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 202
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ipek Demir, "Diaspora As Translation and Decolonisation" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 259
This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it sh…
3 years, 6 months ago
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 184
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 171
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accus…
3 years, 6 months ago
Kasia Paprocki, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 167
In Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (Cornell UP, 2021), Kasia Paprocki challenges two well-worn …
3 years, 6 months ago
Marquis Bey, "Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 216
In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and ci…
3 years, 6 months ago