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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 112 days 23 hours 55 minutes
episode 63: Mythri Jegathesan, "Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Jegathesan makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods...
episode 67: Tyler Bickford, "Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture" (Duke UP, 2020)
Bickford addresses the ways in which the music industry seized only childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture...
episode 142: M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...
episode 113: Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness" (Routledge, 2019)
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
episode 47: Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...
episode 141: Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India" (Duke UP, 2016)
Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state...
episode 93: Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
episode 46: Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?
episode 139: Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety" (Policy Press, 2018)
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?
episode 193: Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?