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George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
117 hours 29 mins; December 06, 2024
Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
78 hours 52 mins; December 05, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
80 hours 14 mins; December 04, 2024
Alex Mayhew, "Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
59 mins; December 04, 2024
Victoria Soyan Peemot, "The Horse in My Blood: Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
63 hours 17 mins; December 03, 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
41 mins; December 03, 2024
Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, "The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
73 hours 41 mins; December 02, 2024
James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)
83 hours 56 mins; December 01, 2024
Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)
61 hours 40 mins; November 30, 2024
Brett Bowden, "Now Is Not the Time: Inside Our Obsession with the Present" (Iff Books, 2024)
31 mins; November 30, 2024
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
60 hours 46 mins; November 30, 2024
Nick Butler, "The Trouble with Jokes: Humour and Offensiveness in Contemporary Culture and Politics" (Policy Press, 2023)
33 mins; November 27, 2024
Tom Scott-Smith, "Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter" (Stanford UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; November 27, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 27, 2024
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
52 mins; November 24, 2024
Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 23, 2024
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
45 mins; November 21, 2024
Petra Molnar, "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" (New Press, 2024)
28 mins; November 21, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
46 mins; November 21, 2024
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
51 mins; November 20, 2024
Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)
77 hours 29 mins; November 20, 2024
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 19, 2024
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 19, 2024
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
43 mins; November 15, 2024
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; November 14, 2024
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; November 13, 2024
A Normative Sociological Approach to Secularism and Multiculturalism
24 mins; November 13, 2024
Scott J. Weiner, "Kinship, State Formation and Governance in the Arab Gulf States" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
46 mins; November 13, 2024
Hunter Hargraves, "Uncomfortable Television" (Duke UP, 2024)
83 hours 47 mins; November 12, 2024
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
40 mins; November 12, 2024
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
53 mins; November 12, 2024
Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
44 mins; November 10, 2024
Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)
38 mins; November 09, 2024
"The Languages of Indonesian Politics" Revisited
37 mins; November 08, 2024
Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
63 hours 39 mins; November 07, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
45 mins; November 05, 2024
Joanne Rosenthal, "Sex: Jewish Positions" (Hirmer Verlag, 2024)
42 mins; November 04, 2024
Douglas J. Engelman, "A Boy Broken: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Mental Illness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning" (2023)
44 mins; November 04, 2024
Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self" (Lexington Books, 2023)
54 mins; November 03, 2024
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
31 mins; November 03, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
52 mins; November 02, 2024
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
55 mins; October 31, 2024
Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
55 mins; October 31, 2024
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 29, 2024
Mark W. Geiger, "Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets" (Yale UP, 2024)
75 hours 26 mins; October 29, 2024
Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; October 29, 2024
Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 31 mins; October 28, 2024
Melissa Deckman, "The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2024
Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva, "The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game" (UNC Press, 2024)
70 hours 5 mins; October 27, 2024
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
63 hours 18 mins; October 26, 2024
Nathan J. Murphy, "The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule our Lives and How to Change it" (Prepolitica, 2024)
26 mins; October 26, 2024
How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?
41 mins; October 26, 2024
Matilde Masso, "Contested Money: Towards a New Social Contract" (Routledge, 2023)
51 mins; October 25, 2024
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
39 mins; October 25, 2024
Himanshu Upadhyaya, "Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980)" (Springer, 2024)
58 mins; October 25, 2024
Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 31 mins; October 24, 2024
Adam Greenfield, "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; October 22, 2024
Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)
43 mins; October 22, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; October 22, 2024
Emrah Yildiz, "Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders" (U California Press, 2024)
72 hours 55 mins; October 22, 2024
Tamara Jacka, "Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China" (Anu Press, 2023)
56 mins; October 21, 2024
Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)
50 mins; October 20, 2024
Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, "Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture" (Saqi Books, 2024)
81 hours 44 mins; October 18, 2024
Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 18, 2024
Shared Paths: Exploring Jewish and Muslim Experiences in America
41 mins; October 17, 2024
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
66 hours 56 mins; October 17, 2024
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 5 mins; October 16, 2024
Meghana Joshi, "Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin" (Berghahn, 2024)
59 mins; October 15, 2024
Jamie Furlong and Will Jennings, "The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales" (Oxford UP, 2024)
50 mins; October 15, 2024
Xiaoming Wang, "Muslim Chinese: The Hui in Rural Ningxia" (de Gruyter, 2019)
48 mins; October 14, 2024
Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
80 hours 32 mins; October 13, 2024
Theo Williams, "Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation" (Verso, 2022)
66 hours 18 mins; October 13, 2024
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga, "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
61 hours 21 mins; October 13, 2024
Rebuild by Design: A Talk by Eric Klinenberg
57 mins; October 13, 2024
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
37 mins; October 12, 2024
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; October 12, 2024
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
34 mins; October 11, 2024
Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
69 hours 40 mins; October 11, 2024
Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott, "Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls" (Lexington Book, 2024)
55 mins; October 11, 2024
Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
55 mins; October 11, 2024
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
81 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
36 mins; October 08, 2024
Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
84 hours 0 mins; October 06, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
46 mins; October 06, 2024
Transnational Communicative Care
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
42 mins; October 05, 2024
Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
60 hours 50 mins; October 04, 2024
Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
65 hours 49 mins; October 04, 2024
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
75 hours 19 mins; October 04, 2024
From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis
56 mins; October 02, 2024
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, "The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places" (MIT Press, 2024)
42 mins; October 02, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
58 mins; September 30, 2024
Lynne B. Sagalyn, "Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change" (MIT Press, 2023)
61 hours 7 mins; September 30, 2024
Uroš Kovač, "The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
75 hours 27 mins; September 30, 2024
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
69 hours 46 mins; September 29, 2024
Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims
33 mins; September 27, 2024
Ellen T. Meiser, "Making It: Success in the Commercial Kitchen" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
46 mins; September 27, 2024
Courtney Ann Irby, "Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling" (NYU Press, 2024)
64 hours 34 mins; September 27, 2024
Jack A. Goldstone, "Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 14 mins; September 27, 2024
David L. Swartz, "The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 35 mins; September 26, 2024
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