Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 461
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery – working harder, doi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 98
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the c…
1 year, 9 months ago
Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
Episode 304
Alan McGowan delves into Franz Boas’s dual identity as both a scientist and a political activist, shedding light on how his work transcended academic…
1 year, 9 months ago
Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Postivism
Season 1 Episode 1
An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on one of the theoretical constructs that underpins Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Positivism.
Interviewer: Hize…
1 year, 9 months ago
Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Episode 305
Amrita Ghosh's book Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts (Lexington Books, 2023) is an interdisciplinary book that studies lite…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 343
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amou…
1 year, 9 months ago
Margot Weiss, "Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 62
This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways q…
1 year, 9 months ago
Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li, "Social Mobility" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 460
What is social mobility? In Social Mobility (Polity Press, 2023), Anthony Heath, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Y…
1 year, 9 months ago
Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 183
Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact po…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Episode 106
In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palestinian LGB…
1 year, 9 months ago