Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 113
Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In S…
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Mary Ann Hinsdale and Stephen Okey, "T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology" (T&T Clark, 2020)
Episode 227
The T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology (T&T Clark, 2020) is a ground-breaking volume that gathers together the voices of veteran theologi…
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A New Hope? Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia
Episode 77
In post-growth Japan, some people are looking to Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia, as a source of new hope. A notable change in the recent pattern…
3 years, 4 months ago
Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 60
In Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Duke UP, 2022), Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of…
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Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
Episode 29
Laura Ann Twagira, an associate professor of history, head of African Studies, and an affiliate with science in society program and feminist gender s…
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Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, "Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 174
Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and s…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Episode 93
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume tit…
3 years, 4 months ago
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 98
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensi…
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Nick Seaver, "Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 211
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 115
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. …
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