Tamar Katriel on her book, Defiant Discourse
Interview by Irit Dekel Irit Dekel: Your recent book Defiant Discourse helps readers understand the relations between speech and action, revisiting important questions concerning the performat…
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Adam Hodges on his book, When Words Trump Politics
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32097 Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae Yeon-Ju Bae: Now that the Trump presidency ended, what can we still learn from the past years, during which responsibiliti…
Aneil Tripathy takes the Page 99 Test
I began my study of climate finance, financial markets purportedly geared towards investing in climate change solutions such as public transit and renewable energy, back in 2014. From…
Justin Richland on his book, Cooperation without Submission
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo34191322.html Interview by Hannah McElGunn Hannah McElGunn: Cooperation Without Submission brings together cases drawn from a wide…
Shireen Walton discusses her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy Interview by Rachel Howard Rachel Howard: As you note, active aging agendas “aim to encourage people to exercise control over the aging…
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-and-revolutionary-magic-in-the-orinoco-delta-9781350115767/ Interview by Rusty Barrett Rusty Barrett: First, for those unfamiliar with Venezuela, coul…
Anya Peterson Royce reflects on her career
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I am turning your question around because I have had two professions each of which I have…
Hannah Carlan takes the page 99 test for her dissertation
As it so happens, page 99 of my dissertation is the conclusion of my first body chapter following the introduction. My dissertation, “Producing Prosperity: Language and the Labor…
Anna Tuckett on her book, Rules, Papers, Status
Interview by Dodom Kim https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29781 Dodom Kim: Rules, Papers, Status examines migration, legal citizenship, and the question of belonging in contemporary Italy….
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money
Interview by Amy Garey https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-for-love-and-money-9780190877316 Amy Garey: How does migration influence literacy practices? Kate Vieira: Unfortuna…
Ronald Niezen on his book, #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31090 Kevin Laddapong: You have been researching indigenous and postcolonial politics throughout your career, and it is very…
Brent Luvaas on his book, Street Style
Interview by Matthew Raj Webb https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/street-style-9780857855756 Matthew Raj Webb: Not so long ago, fashion showed up in anthropologists’ writing largely as a pejorati…
Aurora Donzelli on her book, Method of Desire
interview by Setrag Manoukian https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/methods-of-desire-language-morality-and-affect-in-neoliberal-indonesia/ Setrag Manoukian: It is reductive to assign a narrow t…
Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace
interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780873658713 Camilo Ruiz Sanchez: It shook me to learn that the archive has almost disappeared and that what w…
Caroline McKusick takes the page 99 test
I find myself, on page 99, in the middle of a crisis of translation. Unsurprising, given that my “in” to dissertation fieldwork resembled that of many anthropologists, who…
Nick Harkness on his book, Glossolalia and the Problem of Language
Interview by Hyemin Lee https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo68655055.html Hyemin Lee: I am curious about how this book will circulate among a broader audience interes…
Jacqueline Hazan takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation, “Mediating Micronesian Futures: Potentialities and Precarity in Cultural Production Among Mobile Pacific Islanders,” marks a transition in a chapter introducing how …
Bradd Shore on his new book, Shakespeare and Social Theory
https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-and-Social-Theory-The-Play-of-Great-Ideas/Shore/p/book/9781032017167 Interview by Rob Shore Rob Shore: Using the lens of social science on Shakespeare…
Patrick Lewis takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation, “Publics of Value: Higher Education and Language Activism in Turkey and North Kurdistan,” falls midway in my second chapter, where I seek…
Shirley Yeung takes the page 99 test
The “quality of the whole” is uncannily revealed by the concluding paragraph on page 99 of my dissertation. It reads: The institution I call The Migrant Center, then,…
Mei-Chun Lee takes the page 99 test
At the bottom of page 99 in my dissertation “The ‘Nobody’ Movement: Digital Activism and theUprising of Civic Hackers in Taiwan” is a quote from the g0v (pronounced…
Barney Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33334 Hannah Carlan interviews E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis Hannah Carlan: Bernard Bate’s posthumous book Protestant Textu…
Amanda Weidman on her book, Brought to Life by the Voice
Interview by Constantine Nakassis https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520377066/brought-to-life-by-the-voice Constantine V. Nakassis: Your brilliant first book, Singing the Classical, Voic…
Eric Henry on his book, The Future Conditional
Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Tan cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755163/the-future-conditional/ Andy Zhenzhou Tan: An explicit orienting question for the book is “Why teach an entire nat…