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Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGB
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining
The pandemic brought to the fore a group of workers deemed “essential” – frontline healthcare worker
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022),
In 1912, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim published The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Cen
How does creativity work? In Creativities: The What, How, Where, Who and Why of the Creative Process
Daniel Armanios, associate professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University,
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinkin
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022
Cannibalism has been used for centuries to define the lowest form of humanity, but the story isn't a
Most people in developed countries think inequality is increasing. And most would also agree that in
Sabrina Mittermeier's edited volume Fan Phenomena: Disney (Intellect Books, 2023) analyzes the fando
What needs are satisfied in digital gaming? And what does the shift of these need satisfactions into
Today I talked to Dr. Heidi K. Gardner about her new book (co-authored with Ivan A. Matviak) Smarter
Contemporary diet culture is only the latest manifestation of a long history of religious fervor abo
The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northe
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (Univ
In Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety (Stanford UP, 2022), Daniel W
Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, anim
