Interview by Amanda Kaminsky https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781788925112#:~:text=Voices%20of%20a%20City%20Market%3A%20An%20Ethnography&text=Based%20on%20four%20year…
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30536 Interview by Yael Assor Yael Assor: The book first came out in Hebrew and was then translated to English. I was wondering why did you decide to…
Filing personal tax returns, with the power of Spotify Matti Eräsaari, University of Helsinki Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, University of Cambridge In May 2020, ahead of the deadline for filing…
Interview by Kim Fernandes https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498580038/Second-Generation-South-Asian-Britons-Multilingualism-Heritage-Languages-and-Diasporic-Identity Kim Fernandes: In your book,…
Interview by Ilana Gershon Digital Pirates: Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil Ilana Gershon: At the heart of this book is the intellectually productive argument that intellectual pro…
What moment of fieldwork interaction do you still think about, amazed that you got to witness it and/or record it? While doing fieldwork in 1981 for my doctoral…
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transcendent-parenting-9780190088989?cc=us&lang=en&# Kevin Laddapong: In Transcendent Parenting, you argue t…
Interview by Shuting Li https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976696 Shuting Li: In this book, you follow image-making technology’s trajectory, from Kodak film camera, h…
Interview by Xiao Xe https://www.dukeupress.edu/otaku-and-the-struggle-for-imagination-in-japan Xiao Ke: It was an absolute joy reading this provocative and rigorous book on Japanese “otaku…
Interview with Laura Murry https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31306 Laura Murry: Please explain the main focus and argument of your book, Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Fr…
Interview by Nazli Azergun https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691188904/an-internet-for-the-people Nazli Azergun: In your book, you describe craigslist as a precedent to curren…
Interview by Sandhya Narayanan https://www.dukeupress.edu/manufacturing-celebrity Sandhya Narayanan: One goal of your ethnography is to delve deeper into the ways that celebrity, and its cl…
In the middle of the page a line jumps out: “Nthanu telling, therefore, encapsulates a moral performance”. Lying at the centre of page 99 this line also lies…
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-artifacts-afford Kevin Laddapong: Reading How Artifacts Afford is very refreshing. You have proposed a way forward for analys…
Interview by Patrick Lewis https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27908 Patrick Lewis: When I first came across the title of your book, two things came to mind: Betty Anderson’s (2011) histor…
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-button Kevin Laddapong: In Power Button, you bring readers back to the early days of buttons and encourage readers to think…
Interview by Indivar Jonnalagadda https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-government-of-beans Indivar Jonnalagadda: What inspired the book’s central idea of ‘agribiopolitics’, which enco…
Interview by Janet Connor https://www.dukeupress.edu/fabricating-transnational-capitalism Janet Conner: Why is fashion so good for thinking about capitalism? Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagi…
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emoji-revolution-how-technology-shaping-future-communication Kevin Laddapo…
Page 99 of my dissertation ends with a quote from a 2019 comedy festival, “KVN is, KVN lives, KVN will continue to live!” It sums up one of…
Page 99 of my dissertation contains a theoretical discussion on fantasy, situated in arguably the least ethnographic of chapters. The dissertation itself is about Japanese players of the…
Re-reading page 99 of my dissertation, I’m snapped back to the mosque in Milan, Italy that I came to know so well. Where public school children convened to…
On page 99, I get to the Kodak. The fixed focus, single aperture lens camera was patented 1888, and it sold for the not insignificant price of twenty-five…
On page 99 of my dissertation, Révolution Dārija? Imagining Vernacular Futures in Morocco, the reader finds themself in a Casablanca dubbing studio alongside a sound engineer and a…