Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchXin Gu, "Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 441
How can artists survive today? In Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Ind…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mara Albrecht and Alke Jenss, "The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 24
The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures (Manchester UP, 2023) asks how the city, with its spatial and tempo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Laura Huttunen and Gerhild Perl, "An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
Episode 288
All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while mi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Priyanka Basu, "The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 440
How can culture be authentic in the modern world? In The Poet's Song: Folk and its Cultural Politics in South Asia (Rouitledge, 2023), Dr Priyanka Ba…
2 years, 3 months ago
Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 224
What people ultimately want from music-drama, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them d…
2 years, 3 months ago
Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch eds., "Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
Episode 287
Compliance, namely everyday accommodations, is a practice allowing us to work and live with others. Exploring compliance from an anthropological pers…
2 years, 3 months ago
Poppy Wilde, "Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 8
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively…
2 years, 3 months ago
Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 177
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama, "The Play of the Feminine" (HASP, 2023)
Episode 318
In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navarātri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. Ina Mari…
2 years, 3 months ago
Steve Ferzacca, "Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore" (NUS Press, 2021)
Episode 7
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-pr…
2 years, 3 months ago