Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 64
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – …
2 years, 6 months ago
Terah J. Stewart, "Sex Work on Campus" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 324
Terah J. Stewart's book Sex Work on Campus (Routledge, 2022) examines the experiences of college students engaged in sex work and sparks dialogue abo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 267
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstantino…
2 years, 7 months ago
Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)
Episode 117
In the third episode of our Global Policing series, Elizabeth and John spoke back in 2020 with anthropologist Laurence Ralph about The Torture Letter…
2 years, 7 months ago
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
Episode 21
In this interview, we talk with Stefan Tanaka, professor emeritus of UCSD and a specialist in modern Japanese history. He is author of two books on m…
2 years, 7 months ago
Briana L. Wong, "Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Episode 25
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverber…
2 years, 7 months ago
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 266
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela E. Sandstrom, "Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana" (UP of Colorado, 2023)
Episode 265
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana (UP o…
2 years, 7 months ago
Laleh Khalili, "Corporeal Life of Seafaring" (MACK, 2023)
Episode 77
The body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all…
2 years, 7 months ago
Huwy-min Lucia Liu, "Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 76
Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death (Cornell UP, 2023) tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the managemen…
2 years, 7 months ago