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Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia" (Cornell UP, 2026)

62 hours 13 mins; April 01, 2026

Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute

66 hours 0 mins; March 30, 2026

Derek Krueger "Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

88 hours 54 mins; March 30, 2026

Kristin Ciupa, "The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State, and the World Market" (Brill, 2026)

37 mins; March 29, 2026

Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)

65 hours 5 mins; March 28, 2026

Zheng Liu, "Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China" (Columbia UP, 2026)

60 hours 2 mins; March 28, 2026

The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

54 mins; March 26, 2026

Sarah Jaffe, "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

68 hours 51 mins; March 25, 2026

Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)

69 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2026

Deirdre Flynn and Mary McGill eds., "Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space" (Routledge, 2025)

42 mins; March 22, 2026

Orsi Husz, "Bankminded: Banks As Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)

46 mins; March 22, 2026

Gabrielle Oliveira, "Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life" (Stanford UP, 2025)

27 mins; March 20, 2026

Sunmin Kim, "The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

74 hours 1 min; March 19, 2026

⁠The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health⁠

54 mins; March 19, 2026

Joseph Weiss, "Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada" (UNC Press, 2026)

65 hours 34 mins; March 17, 2026

Upper Caste Liberalism with Ravikant Kisana

61 hours 20 mins; March 16, 2026

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life

50 mins; March 12, 2026

Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)

61 hours 21 mins; March 11, 2026

Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 11, 2026

Tamara Kay, "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" (Oxford UP, 2025)

45 mins; March 07, 2026

Eleanor Gordon et al., "Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939" (Oxford UP, 2025)

64 hours 16 mins; March 06, 2026

Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)

60 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2026

Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)

41 mins; March 05, 2026

Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán, "Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings" (NYU Press, 2025)

39 mins; March 03, 2026

Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)

61 hours 13 mins; March 02, 2026

Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2021)

55 mins; February 28, 2026

Elliot Dolan-Evans, "Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine" (Bristol UP, 2025)

54 mins; February 28, 2026

The Shtetl: Myth and Reality with Samuel Kassow

68 hours 45 mins; February 27, 2026

A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education

63 hours 12 mins; February 26, 2026

Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)

78 hours 55 mins; February 23, 2026

Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025)

61 hours 6 mins; February 21, 2026

Jessica Martin, "Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

36 mins; February 21, 2026

The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy

48 mins; February 19, 2026

Agustín Santella and Adrián Piva, "Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

34 mins; February 16, 2026

Alexis Lerner, "Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

46 mins; February 16, 2026

Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)

58 mins; February 13, 2026

Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)

57 mins; February 08, 2026

Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; February 08, 2026

Olivier Esteves et al., "France, You Love It but Leave It: The Silent Flight of French Muslims" (Polity, 2025)

57 mins; February 06, 2026

Nina Bandelj, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting" (Princeton UP, 2026)

60 hours 49 mins; February 05, 2026

Educated Out: How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges—And What It Costs Them

45 mins; February 05, 2026

P. C. Saidalavi, "Seeking Allah's Hierarchy: Caste, Labor, and Islam in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

50 mins; February 04, 2026

David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

108 hours 47 mins; February 03, 2026

Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)

63 hours 5 mins; February 02, 2026

The Caste Question with Suraj Yengde and Anupama Rao

59 mins; February 01, 2026

Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)

64 hours 1 min; February 01, 2026

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, "By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates" (Columbia UP, 2025)

55 mins; January 30, 2026

163* The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)

32 mins; January 29, 2026

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

44 mins; January 29, 2026

Kimberley Johnson, "Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis" (Cornell UP, 2025)

49 mins; January 25, 2026

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 22, 2026

Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)

40 mins; January 20, 2026

Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)

49 mins; January 19, 2026

Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

73 hours 4 mins; January 18, 2026

Di Wu et. al, eds., "China As Context: Anthropology, Post-globalisation and the Neglect of China" (Manchester UP, 2025)

79 hours 15 mins; January 16, 2026

Emily Walton, "Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England" (Stanford UP, 2025)

56 mins; January 16, 2026

Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)

57 mins; January 14, 2026

Julia H. Meszaros, "Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 2026

Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)

34 mins; January 12, 2026

Anita Gonzalez, "Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

25 mins; January 10, 2026

Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)

64 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2026

Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

47 mins; January 05, 2026

Arseli Dokumaci, "Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" (Duke UP, 2023)

74 hours 38 mins; January 04, 2026

Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025)

36 mins; January 04, 2026

Judd B. Kessler, "Lucky by Design: The Hidden Economics of Getting More of What You Want" (Little, Brown Spark, 2025)

51 mins; January 03, 2026

Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)

46 mins; January 02, 2026

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)

44 mins; January 01, 2026

Henrike Kohpeiß, "Bourgeois Coldness" (Divided Publishing, 2025)

50 mins; December 27, 2025

Suvi Rautio, "The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade" (Springer Nature, 2024)

78 hours 40 mins; December 25, 2025

Karma F. Frierson, "Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz" (U California Press, 2025)

49 mins; December 23, 2025

Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)

37 mins; December 23, 2025

Christian Smith, "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

36 mins; December 22, 2025

Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano

28 mins; December 22, 2025

Caitlin Schroering, "Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing" (Manchester UP, 2024)

55 mins; December 21, 2025

Nathan McGovern, "Seeing Through Religion: An Introduction to the Study of Religion and Religions" (Routledge, 2025)

71 hours 55 mins; December 20, 2025

Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 19, 2025

Sharon Sliwinski, "An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed" (MIT Press, 2025)

29 mins; December 18, 2025

Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)

37 mins; December 15, 2025

James Sears, "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk" (Temple UP, 2024)

56 mins; December 09, 2025

Andrea Flores, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America" (UC Press, 2021)

67 hours 49 mins; December 08, 2025

“Rurality 2.0”: How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions with Tom Bratrud

71 hours 7 mins; December 08, 2025

Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

46 mins; December 08, 2025

Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)

64 hours 36 mins; December 07, 2025

Anna Zhelnina, "Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow" (Temple UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 05, 2025

Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

54 mins; December 05, 2025

Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)

44 mins; December 04, 2025

Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

43 mins; December 04, 2025

The Renaissance of Marxist Studies: A Discussion with Babak Amini

20 mins; December 01, 2025

Patrick Gamsby, "Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy and Modernity" (Routledge, 2025)

50 mins; November 30, 2025

Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

49 mins; November 30, 2025

Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)

55 mins; November 29, 2025

Sabrina Mittermeier, "Fan Phenomena: Disney" (Intellect Books, 2023)

54 mins; November 28, 2025

Deborah Carr, "Aging in America" (U California Press, 2023)

56 mins; November 28, 2025

Joe Greenwood-Hau," Capital, Privilege and Political Participation" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

45 mins; November 26, 2025

Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)

44 mins; November 23, 2025

Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)

71 hours 41 mins; November 23, 2025

Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)

58 mins; November 22, 2025

Janice M. McCabe, "Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

51 mins; November 21, 2025

Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)

28 mins; November 17, 2025

Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

62 hours 46 mins; November 16, 2025

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