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In this conversation (one of my favorite interviews ever), I talk with Noah Askin of the University

In The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke UP, 2022) Rumya Sree P

Today I talked to Holly Walters about her new book Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas (Amst

Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations

A close reading of Wikipedia's article on the Egyptian Revolution reveals the complexity inherent in

Qatar, an ambitious country in the Arabian Gulf, grabbed headlines as the first Middle Eastern natio

Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From grammar and

Technologies are intrinsically social. They reflect human values and affect human behavior. The soci

Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and meth

What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South L

One of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war oft

What does Prehistory mean to us now? In Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary C

Marx’s Capital looms large today, a century and a half after first publication, a massive tome that

When viewed through the context of an interactive play, a video game player fulfills the roles of bo

Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman (Cornell UP,

Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in sub

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton UP, 2022) ex

How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened whe

This groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital g

A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives