Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchClare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 47
Drag shows that test the capacity of bars persist alongside wishes for stronger community among River City's LGBTQ population. In this examination of…
3 years, 4 months ago
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 58
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the di…
3 years, 4 months ago
Missing: Men at Work
Episode 220
Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America's low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped ou…
3 years, 4 months ago
M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)
Episode 173
M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. …
3 years, 4 months ago
Queer Space
Episode 109
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns o…
3 years, 4 months ago
Robin Bartram, "Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 269
Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The bui…
3 years, 4 months ago
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 171
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit…
3 years, 4 months ago
Myanmar Jewellers in China
Episode 165
China re-opened border in a final farewell to its strict zero-COVID policy on the 8th of January, 2023. But in the first few weeks of January, the My…
3 years, 4 months ago
Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 125
Today I talked to Batja Mesquita about her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions (Norton, 2022).
To a degree sometimes not realized, we discus…
3 years, 4 months ago
Stephanie C. Kane, "Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 84
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. …
3 years, 4 months ago