Daniel White on his book, Administering Affect
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…
Tag: Author interviews
Haley De Korne on her book, Language Activism
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…
David Berliner on Becoming Other
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…
Mark LeVine on his book Heavy Metal Islam
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…
Marc L. Moskowitz on his book Internet Video Culture in China
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…
Arseli Dokumaci on her book, Activist Affordances
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…
Q and A with Sumi Madhok on Vernacular Rights Cultures
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Sumi Madhok speaks about her latest book, Vernacular Rights Cultures which subverts prevailing frameworks around human rights by exploring ho…
Joshua Reno on his book, Home Signs
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…
Adolfo Estalella and Alberto Corsin Jimeniz on their book, Free Culture and the City
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…
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…
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…