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Back to SearchElena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
Episode 37
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration…
2 years, 2 months ago
Forgotten Ummah--Muslims in China
Episode 85
This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book T…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 472
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperat…
2 years, 3 months ago
Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 317
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and prote…
2 years, 3 months ago
Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024)
Episode 256
Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end o…
2 years, 3 months ago
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 281
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate o…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 316
Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of forme…
2 years, 3 months ago
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
Episode 274
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of powe…
2 years, 3 months ago
Muslim Literacies in China
Episode 27
Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of A …
2 years, 3 months ago
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 236
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually…
2 years, 3 months ago