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Recent Guests

Sophie Chao
Author of Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger
University of Sydney / Duke University Press
Episode: Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)
Ramnarayan Rawat
Associate Professor of History; co-editor of Dalit Studies (2016)
University of Delaware
Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
K. Satyanarayana
Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies; Dalit studies and literary history
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Sanal Mohan
Retired Professor; work on colonial modernity, Dalit movements, Protestant Christianity in India
Mahatma Gandhi University
Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Margaret Farrar
Professor of Political Science
John Carroll University
Episode: Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Adam Kaul
Professor of Anthropology
Augustana College
Episode: Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Eduardo Albrecht
Political Anthropologist; author of Political Automation, An Introduction to AI in Government and its Impact on Citizens
Mercy University, New York City; former UN University Center for Policy Research
Episode: Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Ka-ming Wu
Author of Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China
Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Episode: Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)
Marisa Karyl Franz
Professor at NYU in Museum Studies
New York University
Episode: Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher
Host of The New Books Network episode and related projects

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 137 ratings
  • Beautiful and Soothing

    Wonderful to feel connected and grounded in today’s troubling world.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Lily Scott - One Love
    United Statesa year ago
  • Good podcast; shame about the gambling ads

    Hi, i really appreciate this podcast, but think that running gambling ads is in questionable taste given the disproportionate impact of gambling on the marginalised

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Hugo JH
    Australiaa year ago
  • It's a common belief that if you can't explain something simpl, you don't understand it. That doesn't naturally lead us to deliver all knowledge for the lowest common denominator, but most maybe all, sources of information are being written for the person who won't understand it. This podcast has breaks from that bad habit. In a week I've heard ideas, sharpened from experience and repetition, delivered with thrust I've never met elsewhere.

    Audible
    5
    Nahvis
    United States5 years ago
  • mostly a podcast by experts for experts

    It's a common belief that if you can't explain something simpl, you don't understand it. That doesn't naturally lead us to deliver all knowledge for the lowest common denominator, but most maybe all, sources of information are being written for the person who won't understand it. This podcast has breaks from that bad habit. In a week I've heard ideas, sharpened from experience and repetition, delivered with thrust I've never met elsewhere.

    Audible
    5
    Jer
    United States5 years ago
  • Engaging and informative

    This podcast covers a wide range of books, and the conversations are really interesting.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    dkd84
    United States7 years ago

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Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)
Q: Can you tell us more about the central idea of satiation and why readers should look to the forest to understand hunger?
Satiation in the forest reframes eating as an exchange of vitality between humans and more-than-human worlds, emphasizing that nourishment comes from a generative, life-sustaining relationship with the forest and its beings, not just from human-centered nutrition.
Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)
Q: What surprised you most when you looked at the everyday lives of volunteers, beyond the common perception of a party-state toolkit?
I found that volunteers operate across a spectrum—from compliant service providers to activist agents who repurpose infrastructure for social causes—showing that city life is produced through everyday acts of care, critique, and improvisation.
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Q: What about the policy landscape in the Czech Republic for cultivated meat?
Although cultivated meat is not yet approved for sale in the Czech Republic or the EU, the Ministry of Agriculture is supporting regulatory frameworks for sensory testing and evaluating company-protected production know-hows within a public-sensory testing protocol.
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Q: How do you conceptualize 'containment' in these new indoor food systems?
Containment is seen as a biopolitical management script that determines which microbes are allowed or excluded, shaping the standards for microbial utility and the overall ecological management of indoor facilities.
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Q: Could you share about the ethnographic journey and how you conducted the research?
The research is heavily grounded in ethnography, involving visits to farms and production facilities, interviews with workers and startup founders, and public engagement events to understand how techno-scientific infrastructures shape everyday practices and beliefs around novel foods.

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A broad, book-centered anthropology podcast that features scholarly authors and researchers discussing recently published work through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses. Episodes span topics from language and nationalism, science policy, migration, memory, and urbanization to visual culture, religion, and post-conflict societies. Notable strengths include rigorous fieldwork insights, cross-disciplinary perspectives, and a track record of inviting authors and researchers to unpack complex social processes for informed, curious audiences. A strong appeal to academics, grad students, and policy-minded listeners who want connections between theory, ethnography, and public impact.

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