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Back to SearchThuy Linh Nguyen Tu, "Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 286
Through a creative focus on skin, in Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke UP, 2021), Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the…
2 years, 3 months ago
Mai Corlin, "The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 87
On the podcast today, I am joined by Mai Corlin, who is researcher at the department of cross-cultural and regional studies in the University of Cope…
2 years, 3 months ago
Aaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 130
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of …
2 years, 3 months ago
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
Episode 285
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was ni…
2 years, 3 months ago
What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?
Episode 7
Ingrid Piller speaks with Piers Kelly about a fascinating form of visual communication, Australian message sticks.
What does a message stick look like…
2 years, 3 months ago
Matthew Wolf-Meyer and Denielle A. Elliott, "Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 339
Ethnographic research has long been cloaked in mystery around what fieldwork is really like for researchers, how they collect data, and how it is ana…
2 years, 3 months ago
Laurence Cox et al., "Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements" (Edward Elgar, 2024)
Episode 176
Addressing practice-oriented questions, this handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature o…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ed Simon, "Relic" (Bloomsbury. 2024)
Episode 284
Object Lessons is a Bloomsbury series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book, Relic, by Dr. Ed Sim…
2 years, 4 months ago
Michael Stausberg, "Religions, Mumbai Style: Events-Media-Spaces" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 313
Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosm…
2 years, 4 months ago
Paul Katsafanas, "Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 220
Why do some of our identity-defining commitments resist reason and critical reflection, and why do we persist in them even when they threaten our hap…
2 years, 4 months ago