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Between the Streets and the Assembly: South Korean Social Movements before and after Democratization
2023/1/6

Welcome to the third NIAS-Korea episode! In this episode, we invite Prof. Yoonkyung Lee to discuss s

Do We Live in a Christian Country?
2023/1/6

I asked medieval historian Rachel Fulton Brown if we ought to still think of our nation (or any West

Carlos Alberto Sánchez, "A Sense of Brutality. Philosophy after Narco-Culture" (Amherst College Press, 2020)
2023/1/6

Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug tr

White Balance: How Do Race and Class Intersect?
2023/1/6

Understanding race in America requires understanding its relationship to class.Guests Joshua Bennett

Siv B. Lie, "Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
2023/1/4

Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France (U Chicago Press, 20

Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
2023/1/4

In Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea (University of Chicago Press, 2022), S

Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
2023/1/4

Who gets to define generational cohorts and do they obscure more than illuminate?Guests Neil Howe, a

Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
2023/1/4

Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia (Cornell UP, 2017) delves into the role of baza

Joel Robbins, "Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
2023/1/3

Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theol

Gareth Dale, et al., "Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born?" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
2023/1/2

The last several decades have seen a mass consolidation of wealth among a few, the rest of the world

Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
2023/1/2

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.In this episode, our host

Donovan O. Schaefer, "Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin" (Duke UP, 2022)
2023/1/2

In Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin (Duke UP, 2022), Donovan O. Schaefer

Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
2023/1/1

The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic, has called into questi

Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
2022/12/30

In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew G

Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism
2022/12/28

This episode looks at the main types and categories of nomads, how they live, and the similarities a

Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)
2022/12/27

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-c

Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
2022/12/26

Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic l

Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
2022/12/25

The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American communit

Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
2022/12/25

In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture (Routled

Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest" (NYU Press, 2022)
2022/12/23

The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian val