Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 200
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopol…
1 year, 7 months ago
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
Episode 33
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with M…
1 year, 7 months ago
Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott, "Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls" (Lexington Book, 2024)
Episode 386
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 245
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Ki…
1 year, 7 months ago
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 281
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thous…
1 year, 7 months ago
Transnational Communicative Care
Episode 32
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tor…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
Episode 11
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, g…
1 year, 8 months ago
Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 327
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence i…
1 year, 8 months ago
Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 341
Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing…
1 year, 8 months ago
Shalva Weil, "The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities and Creating Super-Diversity" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 553
Speaking with Professor Shalva Weil, one receives a glimpse into the wider world. Through her family ties, her personal journeys, and her research, s…
1 year, 8 months ago