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Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025)
77 hours 9 mins; March 11, 2025
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
64 hours 26 mins; March 10, 2025
Brendan A. Galipeau, "Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La" (U Washington Press, 2025)
79 hours 20 mins; March 06, 2025
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
38 mins; March 06, 2025
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
33 mins; March 03, 2025
Deborah Reed-Danahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
32 mins; March 03, 2025
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
45 mins; March 03, 2025
Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)
57 mins; March 02, 2025
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
75 hours 6 mins; March 01, 2025
Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
86 hours 7 mins; February 27, 2025
Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
38 mins; February 27, 2025
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; February 27, 2025
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
46 mins; February 26, 2025
Eeva Luhtakallio et al., "Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society" (Bristol UP, 2024)
57 mins; February 25, 2025
Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024)
67 hours 10 mins; February 24, 2025
Ting Guo, "Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
77 hours 36 mins; February 24, 2025
Gary D. Jaworski, "Erving Goffman and the Cold War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
65 hours 11 mins; February 22, 2025
Audun Kjus et al., "Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum" (Utah State UP, 2024)
51 mins; February 21, 2025
Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)
109 hours 29 mins; February 21, 2025
Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 20, 2025
The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
57 mins; February 19, 2025
Aidan McGarry, "Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 36 mins; February 18, 2025
Carl Waitz, "Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective" (Routledge, 2024)
78 hours 51 mins; February 17, 2025
Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024)
56 mins; February 16, 2025
Joseph Straus, "Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians" (Routledge, 2024)
43 mins; February 15, 2025
Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 15, 2025
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
41 mins; February 15, 2025
Magnus Course, "Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
76 hours 52 mins; February 13, 2025
Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
69 hours 33 mins; February 12, 2025
Debra J. Davidson, "Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2024)
32 mins; February 11, 2025
Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
77 hours 58 mins; February 11, 2025
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
86 hours 48 mins; February 10, 2025
Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, "Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; February 09, 2025
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
71 hours 26 mins; February 07, 2025
Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
63 hours 16 mins; February 07, 2025
Yuca Meubrink, "Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; February 07, 2025
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
55 mins; January 31, 2025
Rachel Marie Niehuus, "An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo" (Duke UP, 2024)
68 hours 26 mins; January 28, 2025
Erica Borgstrom and Renske Visser, "Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement" (Routledge, 2024)
59 mins; January 26, 2025
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; January 26, 2025
Naomi Hodgson and Stefan Ramaekers, "Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
61 hours 12 mins; January 25, 2025
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
72 hours 36 mins; January 24, 2025
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
72 hours 32 mins; January 22, 2025
Jing Xu, "'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
101 hours 52 mins; January 22, 2025
April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; January 21, 2025
Danielle Bayard Jackson, "Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships" (Hachette, 2024)
75 hours 56 mins; January 21, 2025
Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
70 hours 36 mins; January 21, 2025
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
63 hours 39 mins; January 20, 2025
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; January 18, 2025
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
53 mins; January 16, 2025
Alva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
54 mins; January 16, 2025
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
61 hours 22 mins; January 14, 2025
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in SĂŁo Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 13, 2025
Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 12, 2025
Susan A. Brewer, "The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory" (Three Hills, 2024)
54 mins; January 12, 2025
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
44 mins; January 12, 2025
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
46 mins; January 11, 2025
Jonathon Wilson-Hartgrove, "White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy" (Liveright, 2024)
53 mins; January 10, 2025
Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, "Patterns that Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2025)
26 mins; January 08, 2025
Steven Shapin, "Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
44 mins; January 08, 2025
David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; January 08, 2025
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; January 07, 2025
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; January 06, 2025
Devin Fergus, “Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2018)
45 mins; January 05, 2025
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
69 hours 2 mins; January 04, 2025
Sujatha Fernandes, "Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life" (Duke, UP 2020)
45 mins; January 04, 2025
Fernando DomĂ­nguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
63 hours 42 mins; January 03, 2025
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
47 mins; January 03, 2025
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
72 hours 21 mins; January 03, 2025
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 48 mins; January 02, 2025
Joanna MizieliƄska, "Queer Kinship on the Edge?: Families of Choice in Poland" (Routledge, 2024)
50 mins; January 01, 2025
Oskar Jensen, "Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London" (The Experiment, 2024)
88 hours 13 mins; December 31, 2024
Ágnes Györke and Tamås Juhåsz, "Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies" (Leuven UP, 2024)
58 mins; December 30, 2024
Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
45 mins; December 29, 2024
Mukulika Banerjee, "Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
67 hours 40 mins; December 28, 2024
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
44 mins; December 24, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
38 mins; December 23, 2024
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
74 hours 59 mins; December 22, 2024
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 48 mins; December 21, 2024
Neil Atkinson, "Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture" (Canongate, 2024)
45 mins; December 20, 2024
Hannah Gould et al., "Death and Funeral Practices in Japan" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; December 20, 2024
Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 20 mins; December 19, 2024
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
40 mins; December 19, 2024
Jarrett Zigon, "How Is It Between Us?: Relational Ethics and Care for the World" (HAU Books, 2023)
84 hours 40 mins; December 17, 2024
Zygmunt Bauman, "Theory and Society" (Polity, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; December 16, 2024
Nathanael Homewood, "Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
64 hours 36 mins; December 15, 2024
Carrie M. Lane, "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 14, 2024
Sandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
107 hours 33 mins; December 14, 2024
Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
58 mins; December 13, 2024
Shehnaz Haqqani, "Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender" (Oneworld, 2024)
84 hours 54 mins; December 13, 2024
Pankaj Jain, "Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
28 mins; December 12, 2024
Lucy Noakes, "Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2022)
49 mins; December 12, 2024
Who Cares? A Conversation with Emily Kenway
52 mins; December 11, 2024
Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson, "The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design" (Duke UP, 2024)
57 mins; December 09, 2024
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
72 hours 53 mins; December 09, 2024
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
65 hours 55 mins; December 08, 2024
Stacy Torres, "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America" (U California Press, 2025)
70 hours 33 mins; December 08, 2024
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
65 hours 55 mins; December 08, 2024
Andy Hines, "Imagining After Capitalism" (Triarchy Press, 2025)
50 mins; December 07, 2024
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