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2026
matthew heinz, "Entering Transmasculinity: The ...
heinz discusses the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape the identities of people who were assigned the female sex at birth and do not identify with that designation...
55 min
2027
Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and ...
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period transformed the cultural landscape of New York City?
35 min
2028
Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experi...
Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...
55 min
2029
Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Se...
Pomson and Schnoor examine the impact of the family on Jewish identity.
57 min
2030
Christopher J. Shepherd, "Haunted Houses and Gh...
Anyone who tries to understand the history, religion, and especially the “culture” of Southeast Asia, will soon encounter the phenomenon of animism...
40 min
2031
Robert Frank, "Under the Influence: Putting Pee...
Frank describes how the strongest predictor of our willingness to support climate-friendly policies, install solar panels, or buy an electric car is the number of people we know who have already done so...
26 min
2032
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleas...
Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”
50 min
2033
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern M...
Gutmann examines how cultural expectations viewing men as violent and sex driven becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy...
58 min
2034
Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State...
Rebgong, in the Northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau (China’s Qinghai Province), is in the midst of a ‘Battle for Fortune.’
84 min
2035
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
2036
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Onew...
"Slavery in Islam" also offers a remarkable combination of intellectual and social history, anchored in layers of complex yet eminently accessible textual analysis...
68 min
2037
Ivan V. Small, "Currencies of Imagination: Chan...
Overseas Vietnamese are estimated to remit 15 billion dollars annually to family that remains in Vietnam...
48 min
2038
David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science B...
Adger brings foundational ideas in the cognitive science of language to a popular audience...
110 min
2039
Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the ...
Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...
64 min
2040
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer o...
In the books, SpearIt brings the subject of incarcerated Muslims into focus...
75 min
2041
Alexis Elder, "Friendship, Robots, and Social M...
Can robots be our friends?
70 min
2042
Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: ...
Boyles provides vivid ethnographic work and in-depth interviews from the Ferguson protests...
59 min
2043
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
2044
Anna M. Gade, “Muslim Environmentalisms: Religi...
The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...
52 min
2045
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, "Re-Enginee...
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us.,,
86 min
2046
Catherine Besteman, "Making Refuge: Somali Bant...
Besteman writes about her ethnographic encounter in the 1980s with Somalis from the village of Banta who she then re-encounters in 2006 in the town of Lewiston,..
44 min
2047
Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A Histor...
Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...
34 min
2048
Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman a...
Bottero offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality...
37 min
2049
Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cult...
Marsili offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE)...
75 min
2050
Kenneth R. Valpey, "Cow Care in Hindu Animal Et...
What does cow care in India have to offer modern Western discourse animal ethics?
54 min