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Back to SearchAsim Qureshi and Walaa Quisay, "When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners" (Pluto Press, 2024)
Episode 351
When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners (Pluto Press, 2024), uncovers the unique experiences of Muslim political prisoners hel…
1 year, 8 months ago
Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
Episode 236
Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor doctors have m…
1 year, 8 months ago
Eeva Luhtakallio et al., "Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 406
How do young people participate in democratic societies? Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society (Bristol UP, 2024) introduces t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Audun Kjus et al., "Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum" (Utah State UP, 2024)
Episode 343
Audun Kjus joins Jana Byars to talk about Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum (Utah State Press, 2025), eds. Audun Kjus, Jakob Löfgren, Cliona O’…
1 year, 8 months ago
Violent Majorities 2.2: Subir Sinha on Hindutva as Long-Distance Ethnonationalism
Episode 144
Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian continue their second series on Violent Majorities. Their previous episode featured Peter Beinart on Zionism as lo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 154
The relationship between fear people experience in their lives and the government often informs key questions about the rule of law and justice. In n…
1 year, 8 months ago
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 512
What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lecture…
1 year, 8 months ago
Magnus Course, "Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 348
An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failures through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurper, Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Thr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 347
On the podcast today I am joined by Presidential Scholar and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York, Alis…
1 year, 8 months ago
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
Episode 90
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Ga…
1 year, 8 months ago