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…
Tag: Author interviews
John Postill on his book, The Anthropology of Digital Practices
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…
Q and A with Naila Kabeer on Renegotiating Patriarchy
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
Timothy Cooper on his book, Moral Atmospheres
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…
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…
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 …