Why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion and violence in India when the Indian constitution builds an inclusive democracy committed to …
Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (U California Press, 2020) is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth …
In Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke UP, 2020), Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and …
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological mo… Visit …
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that …
In Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different protagonists sought to …
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept …
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). This …
It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the …
How Social Science Creates the World is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Professor …
The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy …
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pacific. In …
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the …
In today’s interview, we speak with Dr. Jon Gordon, incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Appalachian State University, who tells us about …
Why is Vietnam’s modern history so closely associated with a place that lies only just within the country’s borders? What was at …
Today on New Books in Gender Studies Jana Byars talks with Lindy McDougall, of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia about her new …
Being Social is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of …
Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating …
Aase Kvaneid’s new book explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the …
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking …
Why are land rights so bitterly contested in Indonesia, even after the end of Suharto’s New Order in 1998? What methods have …
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside …
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2021) provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective …
In Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal …