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…
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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…
Sonia Livingstone on her co-authored book, Parenting for a Digital Future
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/parenting-for-a-digital-future-9780190874704?cc=us&lang=en& Interview by Ashley McDermott Ashley McDermott: Your work looks at how techn…
Marlene Schäfers on her book, Voices that Matter
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo183627808.html Andrew Bush: The book makes crucial interventions that connect the study of liberal governance in Turkey to the comparative…
Shaila Seshia Galvin discusses her book, Becoming Organic
Interview by Ziya Kaya https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215014/becoming-organic Ziya Kaya: In your book, Becoming Organic, you take us to various sites of pre- and post-agricultural p…
Katrina Daly Thompson on their book, Muslims on the Margins
Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim https://nyupress.org/9781479814350/muslims-on-the-margins/ Ben Ale-Ebrahim: Muslims on the Margins is an ethnography of “nonconformist” Muslims living primarily…
Alessandra Ciucci on her book, The Voice of the Rural
Interview by Nicco La Mattina https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo141940160.html Nicco La Mattina: In The Voice of the Rural, by attending to competing aesthetic disco…
Jennifer Petersen on her book, How Machines Came to Speak
Interview by Joseph Wilson https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-machines-came-to-speak Joseph Wilson: The combination of legal discourse analysis and technology studies in this book is a fascinat…
Bonnie Urciuoli on her book, Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/UrciuoliNeoliberalizing#:~:text=Bonnie%20Urciuoli%20is%20Professor%20Emerita,diversity%20in%20U.S.%20higher%20education. Ilana…