New Books in Sociology
Episodes
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c...
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023), political scientist Marcus Kreuzer synthesises the dif...
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the peo...
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU Press, 2025) brea...
Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gangnam is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured South Korean pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of ...
Christof Lammer, "Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China" (Berghahn, 2024)
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast today I am joined by Christof Lammer, a social anthropologist based at the University of Klagenfurt and inherit fellow at Humboldt Un...
Michael Rosino, "Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism Inside American Grassroots Political Organizing" (UNC Press, 2025)
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and...
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton Uni...
Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do corporations use theater to reconcile the crises of late capitalism? In our latest interview on Ethnographic Marginalia, we speak with Dr. Sara...
Mingwei Huang, "Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century" (Duke UP, 2024)
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke UP, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial...
Aaron Kupchik, "Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice" (NYU Press, 2025)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve th...
Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan (Hawaii 2024), Laura Miller examines the intersections of ludic capitalism with formal and informal...
Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do young people use digital platforms? In The Kids are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life (U California Press, ...
Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we acquire knowledge about societies? Does how we acquire social knowledge shape what we know? How conscious must we be of our own experience...
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Im...
Keith J. Hayward, "Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood" (Constable & Robinson, 2025)
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a mature adult, you're increasingly treated like an irresponsib...
James Davison Hunter, "Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis" (Yale UP, 2024)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality tha...
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does the history of Liverpool tell us about the future of Britain? In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2025), Sam Wetherall,...
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024), Ståle Holgersen develops a conceptualization of 'crisis' that moves b...
Chiara Calzana and Valentina Gamberi, "Haunting Ruins: Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of t...
Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been writ...
Adam J. Berinsky, "Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It" (Princeton UP, 2023)
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumor...
Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampe...
Becky Yang Hsu, "The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China" (Columbia UP, 2024)
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This new edited volume...
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: A Discussion with Alexander Lee and Jack Paine
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The debate about the impact of colonialism on the prospects for democracy and development continues to rage. Was the legacy of colonialism equally des...
We Have Never Been Woke: A Conversation with Musa al-Gharbi
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does occupation reliably predict political leanings? What is social capitalism, and how does it span income classes? If social capitalists are sin...
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. In ...
Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India (U California Press, 2024) is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of...
Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Syaifudin Zuhri’s book Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition (Leiden, 2022) is a detailed examination o...
David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwester...
Farah Ahamed, "Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2022)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Period Matters is a groundbreaking anthology edited by Farah Ahamed that explores the cultural, social, and political dimensions of menstruation in S...
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest and accepting through him God’s forgiveness. The...
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think about abortion in the context of the country they live in. In the U.S., abortion fuels debate, elections, and legislation. In China,...
Cars, Race and Class with Yunis Alam
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan spoke to Dr Yunis Alam about cars, class and race. They discussed the role that cars...
Tracie Canada, "Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football" (U California Press, 2025)
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different...
Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the politic...
Jason Schupbach and Rana Amirtahmasebi, "The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning" (Routledge, 2024)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning (Routledge, 2024) provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities, featuring chapters...
Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous c...
Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a mar...
Sally Coulthard, "A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects" (HarperCollins UK, 2024)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. We poured...
Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstream...
Margaret K. Nelson, "Sociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method" (NYU Press, 2024)
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Memoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revelations. Beyond entertainment value, ho...
Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rap...
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen’s Power Plait to JoJo Siwa’s outsize bows, become such a significant part of how g...
Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of reading? In Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Digital Age (Bloombury, 2024), Karl Berglund, Assistant Professor ...
Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025)
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other suc...
"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Chryl Laird, Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. We are discussing he...
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other s...
Brendan A. Galipeau, "Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La" (U Washington Press, 2025)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aiming to explore the Sino-Tibetan border region, which is renamed “Shangri-La” by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibet...
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and i...
Deborah Reed-Danahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it ...
Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY Press, 2024) by Dr. Waiyee Loh brings together contemporary represen...
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first mono...
Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. T...
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the r...
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2...
Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet – all this infrastruct...
Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate p...
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the second Trump administration reshapes the U.S. government and its role in the world, how do technology, media, and political power intersect? In...
Eeva Luhtakallio et al., "Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society" (Bristol UP, 2024)
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do young people participate in democratic societies? Youth Participation and Democracy: Cultures of Doing Society (Bristol UP, 2024) introduces ...
Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy inst...
Ting Guo, "Religion, Secularism, and Love As a Political Discourse in Modern China" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has 愛 ai (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generatio...
Gary D. Jaworski, "Erving Goffman and the Cold War" (Lexington Books, 2023)
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erving Goffman has always seen as somewhat of an enigma by sociologists and historians of the discipline. In his provocative new book Erving Goffman ...
Audun Kjus et al., "Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum" (Utah State UP, 2024)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Audun Kjus joins Jana Byars to talk about Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum (Utah State Press, 2025), eds. Audun Kjus, Jakob Löfgren, Cliona ...
Eugene W. Holland, "Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism" (SUNY Press, 2024)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of Capitalism (SUNY Press, 2024) argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--...
Claire C. Robison, "Bringing Krishna Back to India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hare Krishnas have long been associated with American hippie culture and New Age religious movements. But they have developed deeply rooted commun...
The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Madison's Notes, Jonathan Haidt, renowned social psychologist and author, dives deep into the impact of digital saturation on toda...
Aidan McGarry, "Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups" (Oxford UP, 2024)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Political Voice: Protest, Democracy, and Marginalised Groups (Oxford UP, 2024), Aidan McGarry examines the agency of marginalised people, emphasi...
Carl Waitz, "Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective" (Routledge, 2024)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke to Dr. Carl Waitz about his new book Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective (Routledge...
Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024)
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The relationship between fear people experience in their lives and the government often informs key questions about the rule of law and justice. In na...
Joseph Straus, "Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians" (Routledge, 2024)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians (Routledge, 2024) discusses the creative work of old musicians—co...
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lec...
Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pernicious social impact of social media platforms is a matter of global concern, as this digital technology has become a breeding ground for the ...
Magnus Course, "Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failures through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurper, Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Thr...
Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in...
Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast today I am joined by Presidential Scholar and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York, Aliss...
Debra J. Davidson, "Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2024)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Eme...
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gal...
Carola Lorea and Rosalind Hackett, "Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between s...
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro, "Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2024) challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing sch...
Zai Liang. "From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States" (U California Press, 2023)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States (University of California Press, 2024...
Yuca Meubrink, "Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door" (Routledge, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. Inclusionary Housing and Urb...
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they’re animated beings,...
Rachel Marie Niehuus, "An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo" (Duke UP, 2024)
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo (Duke UP, 2024), anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus...
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on...
Erica Borgstrom and Renske Visser, "Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement" (Routledge, 2024)
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement (Routledge, 2025) by Professor Erica Borgstrom & Dr. Renske Visser is the first of its kind to ex...
Naomi Hodgson and Stefan Ramaekers, "Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) uses contemporary film to articulate a philosop...
Andrew Smith, "Class and the Uses of Poetry: Symbolic Enclosures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sociologists have had surprisingly little to say about poetry as a topic while sometimes also making grandiose claims that sociology is/should be like...
Jing Xu, "'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we become moral persons? What about children’s active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making mo...
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room: Racial ...
Danielle Bayard Jackson, "Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships" (Hachette, 2024)
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are women's friendships so deep yet so fragile? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson unpacks the latest research about women's co...
Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents a novel ethnographic examination of archaeologi...
April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do Black women experience education in Britain? Within British educational research about Black students, gender distinctions have been largely ab...
Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte's groundbreaking examination of time management and stress, the prizewinning journalist now turns her attention...
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of Wo...
Javaria Farooqui, "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency (Bloomsbury, 2024) offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in S...
Alva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest,...
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Gerald Roche, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics,...
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment. For the first time in history, most people live in c...
Nora Gross, "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A heartbreaking account of grief, Black boyhood, and how we can support young people as they navigate loss. JahSun, a dependable, much-loved senior at...