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2051
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli presents a riveting ethnography of pro-regime media networks in Iran, and sketches an intimate portrait of the actors, projects, and infrastructures invested in preserving and packaging the memory of the Islamic revolution 40 years later...
46 min
2052
Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and...
Lankauskas explores Lithuanians’ pursuit of “modernity”, combining archival and ethnographic data...
81 min
2053
Neil McArthur, "Robot Sex: Social and Ethical I...
Sexbots are coming...
68 min
2054
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, "Aerial Imagin...
This dense and surprising ethnography considers the everyday lives of Cubans as they navigate, invent, and strategize ways to sustain what is most important to them...
43 min
2055
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressi...
What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?
60 min
2056
H. Appel, S. Whitley, C. Kline, "The Power of D...
62 min
2057
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet:...
Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...
53 min
2058
John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flo...
Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...
66 min
2059
Joyce Dalsheim, "Israel Has a Jewish Problem: S...
Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...
38 min
2060
Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mot...
Utrata investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution” in the Russian family after the fall of the Soviet Union...
53 min
2061
Ajantha Subramanian, "The Caste of Merit: Engin...
Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...
62 min
2062
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North K...
Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...
47 min
2063
Sidharthan Maunaguru, "Marrying for a Future: T...
Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’...
67 min
2064
William Westermeyer, "Back to America: Identity...
Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party Movement and the changing nature of political culture in the contemporary United States...
73 min
2065
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization ...
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...
67 min
2066
Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic...
51 min
2067
Miriam Driessen, "Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitt...
Driessen finds that the hope of sharing China’s success with developing countries soon turns into bitterness, as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support and appreciation from Ethiopian laborers and local institutions...
27 min
2068
Thomas Yarrow, "Architects: Portraits of a Prac...
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?
34 min
2069
Maziyar Ghiabi, "Drug Politics: Managing Disord...
Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...
42 min
2070
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Communit...
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
25 min
2071
Deborah Lupton, "The Quantified Self" (Polity, ...
Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood...
61 min
2072
Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, V...
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...
69 min
2073
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vita...
Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...
49 min
2074
Stephen Le, "100 Million Years of Food: What Ou...
There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health...
63 min
2075
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min