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Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)

Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices--living and dead, visible and immaterial--that exert pow... more

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Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.

From the mid-20th ... more

31 Oct 2025 • 1 hr 17 min

Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships... more

31 Oct 2025 • 58 min

Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Content moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content takedowns, account suspensions, and ... more

31 Oct 2025 • 45 min

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Dr. Claudia Gastrow

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University

Episode: Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

Dr. Tamar Mitts

Associate Professor at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and author examining online extremism and hate speech.

Columbia University

Episode: Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Dr. Nancy Newman

Musicologist and author of Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York

University at Albany, SUNY

Episode: Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)

Mukul Sharma

Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, author of 'Dalit Ecologies, Caste and Environmental Justice'

Ashoka University

Episode: Mukul Sharma, "Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Naomi R. Williams

Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations

Rutgers University

Episode: Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

Chris Dalla Riva

Author of Uncharted Territory, focuses on data analytics in music.

Audiomack

Episode: Chris Dalla Riva, "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Claire Whitlinger

Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Program

Furman University

Episode: Claire Whitlinger, "Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi" (UNC Press, 2020)

Avishek Ray

Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the National Institute of Technology

National Institute of Technology, Siltjar

Episode: Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India

Meredith Roman

Associate professor of history at SUNY Brockport

SUNY Brockport

Episode: Meredith L. Roman, "The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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4.3 out of 5 stars from 120 ratings

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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 States6 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 States7 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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Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

Q: Can you tell us about these neighborhoods?

Gastrow describes neighborhoods referred to as Moseques, emphasizing that they should be understood as forms of Indigenous urbanism rather than informal slums.

Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

Q: Can you tell us a bit more about the fieldwork you undertook for this?

Gastrow lived in Angola for a year and a half, conducting diverse fieldwork in neighborhoods affected by urban displacement and demolition, focusing on community organizations and interviews to understand local perspectives.

Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Q: How does the fact that they're doing it in different ways impact what extremist groups can and cannot do?

The inconsistency in moderation policies across platforms creates an uneven ecosystem that extremist actors navigate to overcome restrictions and reach their audiences.

Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Q: Can you give us a sense of different ways that democratic governments have regulated extremist behavior on social media? What are the range of options or tools that they've tried?

Different democratic governments have approached the regulation of extremism on social media by focusing on the largest platforms, often allowing for varying degrees of regulation based on platform size and user base.

Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Q: Could you please start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

I'm an associate professor at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. I have been studying different aspects of the online environment, particularly social media platforms, for 15 years, focusing on issues like extremism and hate.

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