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2001
Sanjib Baruah, "In the Name of the Nation: Indi...
Baruah's book is a wide-ranging analysis of a mode of governance that has become associated with the region where armed resistance, electoral institutions, states of exception and the force of development co-exist...
64 min
2002
Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protect...
Dua describes a tale that is not often told: how piracy works in the everyday lives of those involved in its grip...
56 min
2003
Frederic C. Schaffer, "Elucidating Social Scien...
"Elucidating Social Science Concepts" is both a hands-on text for social scientific conceptualization and an agenda-setting publication that emerges out of Fred’s longstanding commitment to interpretivist methodologies and methods..
54 min
2004
Baptiste Brossard, "Why do We Hurt Ourselves? U...
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?
47 min
2005
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
2006
Joseph E. Taylor III, "Persistent Callings: Sea...
Focusing on the Nestucca river valley, Taylor shows how nature, culture, markets, and technology affected the "callings," or identities, of residents from pre-colonial times to the very recent past....
48 min
2007
Joseph Reagle, "Hacking Life: Systematized Livi...
Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...
73 min
2008
Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest ...
Wheeler uses a fictional place called HandiLand as a yardstick for measuring how far American society has progressed toward social justice and how much remains to be done...
56 min
2009
D. A. Bell and W. Pei, "Just Hierarchy: Why Soc...
What are the arguments in favor of social hierarchies?
53 min
2010
Tania Jenkins, "Doctors’ Orders: The Making of ...
Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...
48 min
2011
Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social L...
What does music tell us about society?
35 min
2012
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulanc...
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?
58 min
2013
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, "Waste Siege: The...
Waste offers Stamatopoulou-Robbins a unique vantage point for understanding everyday life under occupation, the role of environmental discourse in the production and destruction of sovereignty,..
78 min
2014
M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, "Gender,...
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities?
36 min
2015
Jerome Whitington, "Anthropogenic Rivers: The P...
Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...
38 min
2016
Kate Devlin, "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robot...
Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...
61 min
2017
Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire,...
Li begins with the assertion that transnational jihadists are in fact engaged in their own form of universalism: armed transnational solidarity under conditions of American empire...
82 min
2018
Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilizat...
You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...
49 min
2019
David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the...
Who built Africa’s cities?
88 min
2020
Joseph O. Baker, "Deviance Management: Insiders...
Bader and Baker examines how individuals and subcultures manage the stigma of being labeled socially deviant...
53 min
2021
Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language ...
Berman shows us the complexities of Marshallese life and reveals the way that age, a central part of Marshallese culture, is not biologically given but culturally constructed...
60 min
2022
Patrick Inglis, "Narrow Fairways: Getting By an...
Inglis uses the interactions between elite members of golf clubs in city of Bangalore and the caddies who carry their bags to examine how globalization is both upending and reproducing a status quo of extreme inequality...
57 min
2023
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence a...
Van Roekel approaches the question: how do survivors, victims, and perpetrators of political violence experience justice on their own terms?
62 min
2024
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
2025
Jennifer B. Saunders, "Imagining Religious Comm...
Saunders tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders..
70 min