Christina Woolner on her book, Love Songs in Motion
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…
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Pavitra Sundar on her book, Listening with a Feminist Ear
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…
Joseph Errington on his book, Other Indonesians
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…
Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor on their edited volume
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…
Lisa Messeri on her book, In the Land of the Unreal
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…
Kinga Koźmińska on her book, Soundings
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…
Johanna Woydack on her book, Linguistic Ethnography of a Multilingual Call Center
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…
Alice Rudge on her book, Sensing Others
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…
Jonas Tinius on his book, State of the Arts
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…
Matt Rosen on his book, Tirana Modern
https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504814/tirana-modern/ Shinjung Nam: Your representation of everyday life in Tirana Modern felt surprisingly close to my current home, here in S…
Mara Buchbinder on her book, Scripting Death
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520380202/scripting-death Hyemin Lee: Readers might be curious about your intellectual trajectory as well as the motivation behind the years-long research and …
E. Gabriel Dattatreyan on his book, The Globally Familiar
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-globally-familiar Eléonore Rimbault: Much of the energy of The Globally Familiar derives from your candid and involved focus on the young b-boys and rappers …
Piers Kelly on his book, The Last Language on Earth
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-last-language-on-earth-9780197509913 Carolina Rodriguez Alzza: Could you tell how was your first approach to the Eskaya language, and how did Eskaya…
Nishaant Choksi on his book, Graphic Politics in Eastern India
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/graphic-politics-in-eastern-india-9781350159587/ Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway: Your fascinating book argues that script serves as a “critical semiotic modality thro…
Adeline Masquelier on her book, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo37805918.html Rahul Advani: In your book Fada, you attend to the ways in which young men in urban Niger facing economic uncertainty sign u…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer discusses his book, Unraveling
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/unraveling Toni Nieminen: First of all, thank you! Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age is a brilliant and a profound piece of w…
James Slotta on his book, Anarchy and the Art of Listening
Cornell University Press Ilana Gershon: What does focusing on listening and ideologies of listening among people living in Yopno Valley in Papua New Guinea allow you to examine? …
Thinking with “Thinking with an Accent”: A Roundtable Conversation
A conversation between Slava Greenberg, Michelle Pfeifer, Vijay Ramjattan, Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar In 2021, as our co-edited book Thinking with an Accent: T…
Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan on their book, Digital Unsettling
Interview by James Slotta https://nyupress.org/9781479819157/digital-unsettling/ James Slotta: A couple of decades ago, paeans to the liberatory potential of the internet were common. Since then, t…
Stefanie Duguay discusses her book, Personal but not Private
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/personal-but-not-private-9780190076191 Interview by Elias Alexander Elias Alexander: In the preface of your work, you give us readers a wonderful ins…
Frank Cody on his book, The News Event
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo190464205.html Shikhar Goel: Describe for us some intellectual motivations behind writing this book. What were some significant moments th…
Summerson Carr on her new book, Working the Difference
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo201564143.html Ilana Gershon In what sense do you see the focus of your book, a therapeutic intervention called motivational interview…
Michael Silverstein’s last book, Language in Culture
Ilana Gershon interviews Summerson Carr, Susan Gal, and Constantine Nakassis https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/language-in-culture/3D4F3FF1DE52DC7CDC5A5B34D21B8AF1#overview Il…
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas on her book, Genres of Listening
Interview by Sarah Muir https://www.dukeupress.edu/genres-of-listening Sarah Muir: In the book, you describe the extraordinary history and contemporary status of psychoanalysis in Buenos Ai…