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Recent Guests

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Co-editor, Professor of Development and Geography

University of Gothenburg

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

Wilfried Swenden

Co-editor, Professor of South Asian and Comparative Politics

University of Edinburgh

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

Dr. Niharika Pandit

Lecturer in sociology at Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary University of London

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

Samuel Holleran

Co-author and sociologist

University affiliation not stated in transcript

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

Max Holleran

Co-author and artist/sociologist

University of Melbourne (as described)

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

Claudia Kreklau

Historian of modern Europe and author of The Making of Modern Eating

Berghahn Books

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

Utathya Chattopadhyaya

Author of Ganja Matters, Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India

University of California Press (author)

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

Ian Marcus Corbin

Philosopher, essayist, author

Think Tank Capita (Senior Fellow); Public Culture Project, Harvard University

Episode: A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin

Kiara Wyndham

Author of Diversityland, Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb

Washington University in St. Louis (Assistant Professor of Sociology); UC Press 2026 publication

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

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4.3 out of 5 stars from 131 ratings

Interesting topics and guests
I love all the NBN podcasts, they are so interesting and informative. However sometimes the audio from the guests is hard to hear/understand... but everything else about these podcasts is great. So happy I found them!
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HanaBones
United States7 years ago
Informative, Fascinating, and Oh So Social!
All of the amazing NBn hosts, along with their fascinating guests, do a phenomenal job at providing an in-depth look into the latest Sociology publications without giving away too much! The wide variety of topics they cover and the engaging way in which they do so had me hooked from the very first listen. Thanks for putting out such an enjoyable show guys - keep up the great work!
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Katie Joy B.
United States8 years ago
Good so far
Thus far, the podcast has had decent conversation surrounding new books in sociology. The interviewers sound somewhat knowledgable and the guests provide some interesting insight into their books. The production quality is so-so, but listenable.
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socguy2
United States15 years ago

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Audio quality can vary across guests, sometimes hard to hear.

Guests are diverse and cover interdisciplinary angles on sociology and related fields.

Deep, informative discussions with a strong scholarly bent.

Production quality is mixed but content is consistently engaging and rigorous.

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

Q: What role did women play in the cookbook culture and in driving changes in the kitchen during this period?

Women published and read cookbooks as scientific works, built publishing networks, and used gendered markets to gain standing; their work enabled better working conditions for cooks and helped establish a public sphere around domestic expertise.

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

Q: How did fashioning a cosmopolitan diet influence everyday kitchens and the transmission of culinary ideas to households?

Middle-class households absorbed foreign cookbooks, hired foreign chefs, and used imported ingredients while adapting menus to local contexts; this led to a blended, progressively global palate and a shift toward routine practices that resembled courtly patterns.

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

Q: First of all, what actually is the German middle class in this interesting period that spans the long 1800s?

The middle class is a dynamic, aspirational cohort that used education, profession, property, tastes, and social networks to negotiate status; their pursuit of recognition shaped how they ate, what they consumed, and how they expressed modernity through food.

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

Q: Could you share in your own words what the book is about and what its key arguments are?

The book is an anti-colonial feminist inquiry into how military occupation of Kashmir shapes everyday life, arguing that liberation must address gender, anti-caste, and anti-capitalist strands and that anti-colonialism and feminism are deeply entangled; militarization is a logic of coloniality that permeates space, time, and narrative.

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

Q: What did that framework let you see that more conventional country-by-country accounts might have missed?

The multi-level framework allowed deeper analysis across macro and micro levels, enabling comparisons between regional examples (like Kerala vs Sri Lanka) and highlighting how state and society interact at different levels, thus capturing complexity and diverse experiences across South Asia.

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A scholarly interview program focused on recent sociology and related social-science books and research. Episodes center on caste and Dalit studies, heritage and regional identity in the Midwest, culture wars and online discourse, urbanization and state policy, as well as ethnographic studies of race, gender, and migration. The show regularly features university professors, researchers, and authors discussing their latest publications with other academics, offering detailed methodological insights and case studies. Noteworthy traits include transnational caste discussions, cross-disciplinary approaches, and a consistent emphasis on how memory, policy, and identity shape social life. For potential listeners, the conversations are dense, rese... more

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