Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBuddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)
Episode 110
Dr Pierce Salguero talks with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon, a postdoctoral fellow at Ryukoku University and an ordained priest in the Shingon Buddhist t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Episode 62
From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the “right" kind of asylum seeker, the …
2 years, 8 months ago
Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, "Homelessness in the 21st Century: Living the Impossible American Dream" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 313
An accessible and engaging introductory text on homelessness and housing policy, this timely book uses a sociopolitical framework for understanding i…
2 years, 8 months ago
Angie Lederach, "Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 20
What can collaborative research with Colombian campesino leaders teach us about building peace? In this episode, I talk with Angie Lederach, author o…
2 years, 8 months ago
Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 260
In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortune…
2 years, 8 months ago
Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 135
In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Naisargi N. Davé, "Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 259
In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in Ind…
2 years, 8 months ago
Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 209
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the…
2 years, 8 months ago
Daniel R. Reichman, "Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 258
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Christian Krohn-Hansen, "Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 256
The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has bee…
2 years, 8 months ago