InBetween - An anecdotal audio collage InBetween is an audio experiment somewhere between Zürich, Switzerland and Delhi, India. It is a personal podcast documenting my life between Zürich and Delhi in colorful audio collages narrating the little stories, events and thoughts I encounter in between. It is an anthropological podcast documenting my PhD project from the initial search for a topic, through the field research up to the writing process. It aims to render anthropological thought and work more accessible (and understandable) to listeners with or without academic background. It tries to illustrate transparently the joys, struggles and insecurities of research – components of academic work that all too often are left unmentioned in the polished books and smooth articles produced. It is a social podcast featuring conversations about the phenomenon of “feeling in between” by different people permitting insight into their lives and thoughts. In short, inBetween is a love story between one person, two continents, everything in between and the medium audio, told anecdote by anecdote. Episodes are available in German and English.
https://www.tanjaluchsinger.com/podcast/
episode 1: 01 Episode inBetween - English
Coming back to a place, a second home so to speak after having been away for one year is a very special experience accompanied by many emotions and observations. Are things still the same? Does one romanticize the place one used to live in? What does the concept of home mean and how easily can one switch cultural patterns?
My name is Tanja, I am a social anthropologist who studied, lived and did research in Delhi for one year during my Masters. Upon coming back to Switzerland not a single day went by without me missing or thinking about my life in India. Therefore, I decided to “embrace the inBetween” and entangle my life with India for at least the next 4 years through doing a PhD on India. This podcast is a medium to document my six weeks back in Delhi where I aim to find out what is still left of the life I built there and what could be a suitable PhD topic to create a future connected to Delhi. This very first episode talks about the purpose of this podcast as well as some first impressions upon getting back to India.