Podcast

New Books in Sociology

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Summary

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Episodes

Sep 19, 2026 · not_requested

Pushpesh Kumar et al. eds., "Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4126
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Sep 18, 2026 · not_requested

Class Struggle and the New York Mets: A Conversation with AM Gittlitz

Duration seconds: 3328
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Sep 17, 2026 · not_requested

Jim Gaona Ellis, "Educators As Designers: The Hidden Architecture of Learning" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3050
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Sep 13, 2026 · not_requested

Ming-sho Ho, "Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests" (Temple University Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2788
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Sep 12, 2026 · not_requested

Billy Fleming, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4980
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Sep 7, 2026 · not_requested

Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4521
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Sep 2, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1423
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Aug 30, 2026 · not_requested

María Angélica Thumala Olave, "The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object" (Manchester UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2510
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Aug 29, 2026 · not_requested

Bernadette Ludwig, "Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2416
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Aug 27, 2026 · not_requested

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfried Swenden eds., "Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia" (Helsinki UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3214
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Aug 25, 2026 · not_requested

Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3343
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Aug 21, 2026 · not_requested

Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran, "Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2769
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Aug 20, 2026 · not_requested

Claudia Kreklau, "The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780–1910" (Berghahn, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2792
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Aug 19, 2026 · not_requested

A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

Duration seconds: 3391
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Aug 19, 2026 · not_requested

Utathya Chattopadhyaya, "Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India" (U California Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3305
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Aug 17, 2026 · not_requested

Kiara Wyndham, "Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2312
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Aug 14, 2026 · not_requested

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951): A Discussion with Jay Garfinkel

Duration seconds: 1768
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Aug 13, 2026 · not_requested

Bordering On Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality

Duration seconds: 2989
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Aug 10, 2026 · not_requested

Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan

Duration seconds: 3967
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Aug 9, 2026 · not_requested

Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2105
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Aug 7, 2026 · not_requested

The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

Duration seconds: 3073
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Aug 4, 2026 · not_requested

Nozomi Naoi, "The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life" (MIT Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2361
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Aug 3, 2026 · not_requested

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3317
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Aug 2, 2026 · not_requested

Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2401
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Aug 1, 2026 · not_requested

Adam Barsouk, "Outsmarting Cancer: Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention" (JHU Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 1477
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Helen Veit, "Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History" (St Martin's Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2534
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May 31, 2026 · not_requested

Chloe Chapin, "Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men" (Oxford UP, 2026)

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May 31, 2026 · not_requested

Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3725
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May 30, 2026 · not_requested

Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2951
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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3095
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May 27, 2026 · not_requested

Janet Hinson Shope and Richard Pringle, "Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3502
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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

George Baylon Radics, "Emotional Filipinos: The American Myth of the 'Lazy Native' and Islamic Separatism in the Philippines" (U Georgia Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2741
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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4848
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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

Mengqi Wang, "Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China's Housing Market" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3887
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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

Robert Rouphail, "Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius" (Ohio UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3352
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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

Evan N. Dawley, "Taiwan: A People′s History" (Reaktion Books, 2026)

Duration seconds: 4245
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May 17, 2026 · not_requested

Eloise Moss, "The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2625
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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

Radio ReOrient S14:7: Surveilling Muslimness in Denmark, with Amani Hassani, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas

Duration seconds: 3366
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May 13, 2026 · not_requested

Amy D. McDowell, "Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America" (NYU Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3327
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May 13, 2026 · not_requested

Rina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3200
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May 12, 2026 · not_requested

Chiara Libiseller, "Reconceptualizing War: The Rise and Fall of Fashionable Concepts in Strategic Studies" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3098
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May 9, 2026 · not_requested

Zeina Al-Azmeh, "Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3758
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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

Steffen Mau et al., "The Trigger Points: Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" (Policy Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3698
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May 7, 2026 · not_requested

Fighting for a Foothold: How Government and Markets Undermine Black Middle-Class Suburbia

Duration seconds: 4167
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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Russell McCutcheon, "Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia, second edition" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2810
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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Siniša Malešević, "Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3907
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Apr 30, 2026 · not_requested

William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3260
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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

Vindhya Buthpitiya, "A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2605
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3293
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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Heather Shay, "Identity Building Among Role-Playing Gamers: Slaying Goblins in the Real World" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2859
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