Moyukh Chatterjee on her book, Composing Violence
https://www.dukeupress.edu/composing-violence Drew Kerr: On one reading, you’ve offered a fresh take on the exclusionary Hindu nationalist project of perpetual crisis re/creating an intern…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/composing-violence Drew Kerr: On one reading, you’ve offered a fresh take on the exclusionary Hindu nationalist project of perpetual crisis re/creating an intern…
https://www.routledge.com/The-Anthropology-of-Digital-Practices-Dispatches-from-the-Online-Culture-Wars/Postill/p/book/9781032370828 Katrien Pype: In this book you not only aim to describe the…
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/moral-atmospheres/9780231210416 Patrick Eisenlohr: Moral Atmospheres is not just a rich portrait of the freewheeling mediascapes of a Lahore marketplace, it is al…
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34329 Drew Kerr: Soft power, nation branding, pop culture diplomacy, anime, manga, anxiety, hope, all feature centrally in your wonderful book. Affect emerg…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/atmospheric-noise Drew Kerr: Atmospheric Noise highlights multiple sensory modes involved with negotiating airport noise. On first brush, the sonic obviously invokes…
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501511561/html?lang=en Elizabeth McHugh: On page 25 you talk about how you came to be involved with this project. Had you known about the lan…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BerlinerBecoming#:~:text=Description,an%20array%20of%20astonishing%20experiences. Todd Meyers: I think a fair place with which to open a discussion of Becom…
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389380/heavy-metal-islam Lara Sabra: Your book has shown that especially in the Middle East, which suffers from censorship and authoritarian regimes, art ca…
https://www.routledge.com/Internet-Video-Culture-in-China-YouTube-Youku-and-the-Space-in-Between/Moskowitz/p/book/9781032092881 Marcella Szablewicz: In media anthropology there is always the q…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/activist-affordances This interview was conducted in February 2023. Nate Tilton: How does activist affordances address the limitations of the social model of disa…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo210361609.html Danilyn Rutherford: I’m so excited to see Home Signs in print. We found out about each other a couple years ago and have b…
Cornell University Press Nomaan Hasan: I want to begin with the observation that the ethnographic attention of this book is devoted to the minor. At the very outset…
University of Chicago Press Amanda Weidman: First of all, thank you for this beautiful, ethnographically and sonically rich work! You’ve brought together ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropolo…
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Listening-with-a-Feminist-Ear2 Anaar Desai-Stephens: One of the primary interventions of the book is this beautiful idea of “listening with a feminist ear…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/other-indonesians-9780197563687?cc=us&lang=en& Jessica Peng: I would like to begin by asking you to reflect upon the trajectory of your…
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BernalCryptopolitics In our new edited volume Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media (Berghahn Books, 2023) we propose the term “cryptopol…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-of-the-unreal Stefan Helmreich: Your first book, Placing Outer Space, asked not only how place was imagined on and for such off-Earth entities as exoplan…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/soundings-and-the-politics-of-sociolinguistic-listening-for-transnational-space-9781350331303 Leonie Schulte: Can you describe sounding and how as a conceptual le…
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-93323-8 Kristina Nielsen: Call Centers have been the study of multiple linguistic and cultural studies that often focus on the topic of outsour…
Ledizioni Publishing Interview by Nicco La Mattina Nicco La Mattina: In Surfers Paradise, you describe how the figure of the surfer is characterized as a risktaker, emblematic of a…
https://www.endangeredalphabets.com/writing-beyond-writing/ Erik Shonstrom: Writing Beyond Writing is such a mind-blowing book. You took the most banal thing in the world, the letters that we …
nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496235466/ Interview by Steven Feld Steven Feld: Congratulations on Sensing Others, which I found a thoroughly rich inquiry into how Batek “voice their ow…
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb Matthew Webb: Against the contemporary backdrop of right-wing nationalisms and populist sentiment across the world; in a country steeped in authoritarian state hi…
Members of the Sovereign Citizen conspiracy movement have been described as “paper terrorists” because of the way that they attempt to intimidate their enemies with mountains of nonsensical,…