Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt
Interview by Meg Morley https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/https://aucpress.com/product/making-film-in-egypt/ Meg Morley: How do/would you explain the central arguments of yo…
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Ergin Bulut on his book, A Precarious Game
Interview by Xiao Xe https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501746536/a-precarious-game/ Xiao Ke: It was a great pleasure to read about such a fun topic, executed in a rigorous way, …
Patricia Spyer on her book, Orphaned Landscapes
Interview by Karen Strassler https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823298693/orphaned-landscapes/ Karen Strassler: You are writing about a moment of profound destabilization and disorientation: …
Elliott Oring on his book, Joking Asides
Interview by Emily Bianchi https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/2920-joking-asides Emily Bianchi: I was wondering what brought you to write Joking Asides: The Theory, Ana…
Tomas Matza on his book, Shock Therapy
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.dukeupress.edu/shock-therapy Tomas Matza on his book, Natalja Czarnecki: In your ethnography of the popular “psychotherapeutic turn” in po…
Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson on Social Engineering
Interview by Emma Briant https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering Emma Briant: Cambridge Analytica often pitched their methods as a contemporary digital marketing firm –…
Joshua Babcock takes the page 99 test
“It’s about sarees or some shit.” This sentence—probably my favorite in the dissertation—comes from a group interview with Chand Chandramohan, Diva, and Seelan Palay, the organizers of Singapore’s…
Sandra Kurfürst on her book, Dancing Youth
Interview by Jonathan DeVore https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dancing-youth/9783837656343 Jonathan DeVore: Congratulations on your new book! First of all, can you recount how you became involv…
Leya Mathew discusses her book, English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/English-Linguistic-Imperialism-from-Below/?k=9781788929134 Interview by Shivani Nag Shivani Nag: It would be helpful if you could first intr…
Fang Xu on her book, Silencing Shanghai
Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Tan Andy Zhenzhou Tan: The topic of your book – the (potential) loss of a language variety under language standardization – is of wide…
Ayalet Fader on her book, Hidden Heretics
Interview by Yzza Sedrati https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169903/hidden-heretics Yzza Sedrati: What led you to divide the book in two? And what or who is the book in co…
Jérôme Camal on his book, Creolized Aurality
Interview by Sara Isabel Castro Font https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo38870959.html Sara Isabel Castro Font: In this book you explore the sounds and practices of gwoka …
Mazyar Lotfalian on his new book, What People Do with Images
Interview by Michael Fischer https://www.seankingston.co.uk/publishing.html Michael Fischer: It is so great to see your book finally coming out in print: we’ve been talking about it in semi…
Emanuel Moss takes the Page 99 test
On the 99th page of my dissertation, “The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence”, the first full paragraph describes how machine learning researchers…
Baird Campbell takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation falls in the middle of the second chapter, “Historia: Social Media as a Tool for Counter-Memory.” Each chapter takes a salient concept from…
Michael Prentice on his book, Supercorporate
Interview by Katherine Chen https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31761 Katherine Chen: Your book Supercorporate, an ethnography of a multi-conglomerate steel company that you call Sangdo, ar…
Melissa Caldwell on her book, Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
Interview by Natalja Czarnecki https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520285842/living-faithfully-in-an-unjust-world Natalja Czarnecki: You write that inter-faith food aid organizations occupy a …
Emily Contois and Zenia Kish discuss their edited volume, Food Instagram
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=58mye9fd9780252044465 Until recently, if you perused the scholarship on Instagram, the app might have appeared to be a relatively benign, homogenous stepc…
Charles Briggs on his book, Unlearning
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3998-unlearning Ilana Gershon: This book is a generous and intricate homage to your mentors and those who …
Michael Lucey on his book, What Proust Heard
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo130500168.html Ilana Gershon: In what sense are Proust and the other authors you discuss – Balzac, Eliot, Wo…
Taina Cooke takes the page 99 test
My excitement quickly turned into disappointment when opening my printed thesis, “Culture on trial: an ethnographic study of the de/constructing of culture in Finnish law courts”, to page…
Florian Jaton on his book, The Constitution of Algorithms
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/constitution-algorithms Ilana Gershon: This book is about the formation processes of algorithms. What, for you, was the socio…
Noelle Molé Liston on her book, The Truth Society
Interview by Jonah Rubin https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750793/the-truth-society/ Jonah Rubin: So much has been written about what media literacy scholars have termed our …
Susan Seizer’s reflections upon retirement
What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing it? Oddly enough the article I am most…