Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlice Rudge, "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Episode 334
How do we confront difference and change in a rapidly shifting environment? Many indigenous peoples are facing this question in their daily lives. Se…
1 year, 11 months ago
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024)
Episode 1505
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ …
1 year, 11 months ago
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 364
Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fan…
1 year, 11 months ago
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
Episode 240
Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores …
1 year, 11 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, 11 months ago
Vivian 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago