Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 210
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the te…
3 years, 4 months ago
Namita Vijay Dharia, "The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 209
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold storie…
3 years, 4 months ago
David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck, "Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 57
Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, bec…
3 years, 4 months ago
Hil Malatino, "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 304
Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Aff…
3 years, 4 months ago
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Episode 164
How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar’s hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and ena…
3 years, 4 months ago
Malini Ambach et al., "Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives" (HASP, 2022)
Episode 233
For many centuries, Hindu temples and shrines have been of great importance to South Indian religious, social and political life. Aside from being pl…
3 years, 4 months ago
James C. Rhoads et al., "Cultivating Q Methodology: Essays Honoring Steven R. Brown" (Bookbaby, 2022)
Episode 83
Cultivating Q Methodology is a collection of essays is in honor of Professor Steven R. Brown, the preeminent scholar of Q methodology. Q methodology,…
3 years, 4 months ago
Paulina Laura Alberto et al., "Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 178
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hund…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Ideology of Innovation in India
Episode 9
Science and Technologies scholar Lilly Irani talks her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India, with Peoples & Thin…
3 years, 4 months ago
Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 208
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and incl…
3 years, 4 months ago