Anna Corwin on her book, Embracing Aging
Interview by H. Keziah Conrad https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/embracing-age/9781978822276 H. Keziah Conrad: One of the central arguments you make in the book is that there is somethi…
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Mathew Gagne take the page 99 test
While page 99 of my dissertation (see below) seems far from its focus on sex apps and digital media among queer men in Beirut, the connection is palpably…
Lauren Zentz on her book, Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity
Interview by Özge Korkmaz https://www.routledge.com/Narrating-Stance-Morality-and-Political-Identity-Building-a-Movement/Zentz/p/book/9780367776411 Özge Korkmaz: I want to start with a gen…
Claire Maree on her book, queerqueen
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/queerqueen-9780190869618 Laura Miller: Although there is a growing literature on queer sexualities and identities in Japan, there are fewer studies …
Crystal Biruk on her book, Cooking Data
Interview by Sheng Long https://www.dukeupress.edu/cooking-data Sheng Long: In your book, you quoted a Chichewa phrase “kuphika madata” (cooking data) to analyze the global health’s quantif…
Jane Goodman on her book, Staging Cultural Encounters
Interview by Janina Fenigsen https://iupress.org/9780253049629/staging-cultural-encounters/ Janina Fenigsen: You’ve written a fascinating account of the 2016 US tour of the Algerian the…
Elisabeth Barakos on her book, Language Policy in Business
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027260697 Interview by Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà: “Language Policy in Business: Discourse, Ideology and Practice” is o…
Nathan Wendte takes the page 99 test
I was intrigued to hear about the “page 99 test,” according to which, the quality of a dissertation can be judged on the content of page 99. As…
Sarah Muir on her new book, Routine Crisis
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo69688117.html Interview by Kabir Tambar Kabir Tambar: Routine Crisis is about the aftermath of the economic collapse in Argentina in 20…
Merav Shohet on her book, Silence and Sacrifice
Interview by Annemarie Samuels https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379381/silence-and-sacrifice Annemarie Samuels: When you first started considering doing ethnographic research in Vietnam,…
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese discuss Voices of a City Market
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…
Yoram Bilu on his book, With Us More Than Ever
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…
Taxpayer’s Playlist
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…
Sheena Kalayil discusses her book, Second-Generation South Asian Britons
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,…
Alex Dent discusses Digital Pirates
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…
Jonathan D. Hill reflects on his career
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…
Sun Sun Lim on her book, Transcendent Parenting
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…
Kate Eichhorn on her book, The End of Forgetting
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…
Patrick Galbraith discusses his book, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan
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…
Brad Wigger on his book, Invisible Companions
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…
Jessa Lingel talks about Craigslist
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…
Vanessa Diaz on her new book, Manufacturing Celebrity
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…
Thandeka Cochrane takes the page 99 test
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…
Jenny L. Davis on her book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
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…