Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 202
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 249
What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or s…
1 year, 6 months ago
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 225
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are di…
1 year, 6 months ago
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
Episode 36
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingr…
1 year, 6 months ago
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 122
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good convers…
1 year, 6 months ago
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 285
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the str…
1 year, 6 months ago
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
Episode 248
The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasan…
1 year, 6 months ago
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 22
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sharonah Esther Fredrick, "An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Episode 231
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of…
1 year, 6 months ago
Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 1
Each of us is endowed with an inheritance--a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generatio…
1 year, 6 months ago