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…
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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…
Neha Vora on her book, Teach for Arabia
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…
Rachel Plotnick on her book, Power Button
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…
Kregg Hetherington discusses Government of Beans
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…
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako on Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
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…
Philip Seargeant on his new book The Emoji Revolution
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emoji-revolution-how-technology-shaping-future-communication Kevin Laddapo…
Amy Garey takes the page 99 test
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…
Mattias van Ommen takes the page 99 test
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…
Lauren Crossland-Marr takes the page 99 test
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…
Ali Feser takes the page 99 test
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…
Kristin Hickman takes the page 99 test
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…
Discussing Phone and Spear
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/phone-spear An edited excerpt from an ongoing conversation between Jennifer Deger and Zeynep Devrim Gürsel Zeynep Devrim Gürsel: How has twenty five years of …
Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation, Reification, Resistance, and Transformation? The Impact of Migration and Demographics on Linguistic, Racial, and Ethnic Identity and Equity in Educational Systems: An Appl…
Matt Tomlinson on his book, God is Samoan
God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific Interview by Jon Bialecki Jon Bialecki: I want to start this interview by saying that God Is…
Gabriella Lukacs on her book, Invisibility by Design
Interview by I-Lin Liu https://www.dukeupress.edu/invisibility-by-design I-Lin Liu: Could you share with us what prompted you to take on this research on Japanese women’s participation in d…