Anat Rosenberg on her book, The Rise of Mass Advertising
Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche, Kings College London Oxford University Press Astrid Van den Bossche: One striking focus of your book is the presence and treatment—legally, culturally,…
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Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is not a Computer
Interview by Elliott Montpellier https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Elliot Montpellier: You write that you questioned how to write about “the…
Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Aguilo-PerezAmerican Interview by Julia Perillo Julia Perillo: How did you get the idea for this book? Emily Aguiló-Pérez: This was based on my doctor…
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who…
Richard Bauman on his book, A Most Valuable Medium
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://iupress.org/9780253065186/a-most-valuable-medium Ilana Gershon: What inspired you to study early commercial sound recordings? And what problems did these …
Deborah Puccio-Den on her book, Mafiacraft
Interview by Elliott Wiseman https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo46770602.html Elliott Wiseman: In the introduction, you establish Mafiacraft as an inversion of wi…
Shaka McGlotten on their book, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life
Interview with Robyn Taylor-Neu https://www.routledge.com/Dragging-Or-in-the-Drag-of-a-Queer-Life/McGlotten/p/book/9780367439521 Robyn Taylor-Neu: It’s conventional (for this blog ser…
Nick Bartlett on his book, Recovering Histories
Interview with Yun Chen https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344136/recovering-histories Yun Chen: Recovering Histories is an ethnography of the entanglements between individuals’ lived expe…
Ingrid Kummels discusses her book, Transborder Media Spaces
Interview by Alana Mazur https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KummelsTransborder Alana Mazur: One of the main themes running through your book is Indigenous audiovisual media and mediatized …
Michele Friedner on her book, Sensory Futures
Interview by Timothy Y. Loh https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sensory-futures Tim Loh: Congratulations on this exciting new book! Your first book, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban …
John P. O’Regan on his book, Global English and Political Economy
Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli https://www.routledge.com/Global-English-and-Political-Economy/ORegan/p/book/9781138811126 Bonnie Urciuoli: Can you say a bit about how your Marx reading group …
Jessica Grieser on her book, The Black Side of the River
Interview by Anna-Marie Sprenger http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/black-side-river Anna-Marie Sprenger: First of all, congratulations on your new book! I am curious how you came …
Ingrid Kummels on her new book, Indigenity in Real Time
Interview by Maria Eugenia Ulfe https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/indigeneity-in-real-time/9781978834781 María Eugenia Ulfe: Congratulations, Ingrid, for publishing this wonderful …
Amahl Bishara discusses her book, Crossing a Line
Interview by Sarah Ihmoud https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34196 Sarah Ihmoud: Crossing a Line offers a refreshing and indeed critical ethnographic approach to understanding Palestinian …
Yaina Stainova on her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
Interview by Ahona Palchoudhuri https://www.press.umich.edu/11698102/sonorous_worlds Ahona Palchoudhuri: I’d like to begin with a particularly moving ethnographic instance from your book in…
Valérie Robin Azevedo on her book, Los Silencios de la guerra
https://lasiniestraensayos.com/libro/los-silencios-de-la-guerra-memorias-y-conflicto-armado-en-ayacucho-peru/ Interview (and translation) by Emily Fjaellon Thompson English version below …
Tom Mould on his book, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America.
Interview by Fionnán Mac Gabhann iupress.org/overthrowing-the-queen Fionnán Mac Gabhann: Overthrowing the Queen represents one of several objectives devised as part of a collaborative proje…
Stevie Suan on his book, Anime’s Identity
Interview by Wendy Goldberg https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/animes-identity Wendy Goldberg: How fixed is Japan’s perceived cultural dominance for anime? How could cultural do…
Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler on their book, The American Stamp
Interview by Pauline Turner Strong http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-american-stamp/9780231208246 Pauline Strong: Congratulations on the publication of your book! I very much enjoyed reading…
Jay Ke-Schutte on his book, Angloscene
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389816/angloscene Interview with Andrew Carruthers Andrew Carruthers: First, please allow me to offer you a hearty congratulations on the publication of …
Jonathan Sterne on his book, Diminished Faculties
Interview by Toni Nieminen https://www.dukeupress.edu/diminished-faculties Toni Nieminen: First, congratulations on Diminished Faculties, what a wonderful read it was! I find your form of w…
Gaby Greenlee takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation reflects on a detail in an elite type of garment that the Inka Empire (ca. 1476-1532 CE) fabricated in its workshops during the…
Jessica Storey-Nagy takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in Chapter 1, “A ‘Viktator’ in the Making: Gaslighting Democracy, Telling Lies, and Evoking Histories,” which describes political culture in Hungary after…
Omotayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song
https://iupress.org/9780253063212/you-cant-go-to-war-without-song/ Tayo Jolaosho died on October 21, 2021, months before their book was published in July 2022. We honor their work and memory …