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This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studies. We began with the significance of the 1990s as a point of departure for new work in this field and... more

Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest (U Nebraska Press, 2026) centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it “Utopia on the Prairie,” home to a radical communal reli... more

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Recent Guests

Ramnarayan Rawat
Associate Professor of History
University of Delaware
Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
K. Satyanarayana
Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies
English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad)
Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Sanal Mohan
Retired Professor
School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University
Episode: Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
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)
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)
Eric O. Silva
Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University
Georgia Southern University
Episode: Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)
Isabel Heger-Laube
Author and Research Associate focusing on contemporary China's social and political transformations
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Episode: Isabel Heger-Laube, "China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability" (Würzberg UP, 2025)
Robert Lee Maril
Author of Hungry Oklahoma, Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity
Oklahoma State University (interview subject)
Episode: Robert Lee Maril, "Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)
Jinwon Kim
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Smith College
Smith College
Episode: Jinwon Kim, "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand" (NYU Press, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher
Host of The New Books Network; associated with New Books Network and New Books in Sociology

Reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars from 128 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!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    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!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    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.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    socguy2
    United States15 years ago

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Jinwon Kim, "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand" (NYU Press, 2026)
Q: What motivated you to explore Koreatown in New York City as a site for studying transnational branding and everyday life?
Kim explains that personal ties to the neighborhood, coupled with academic interest in how macro structures meet bottom-up practices, led her to study Koreatown as a living laboratory where identity, place, and global influences intertwine.
Eric O Silva, "Contested Realities and Identity Destigmatization: Identity Construction in the Culture Wars" (De Gruyter, 2026)
Q: So what happens in this three-stage process of stigma, elevation, and destigmatization in real online conversations?
Discourses tend to stigmatize some voices, elevate others by validating certain identities, and simultaneously destigmatize by reframing or removing negative attributes, leading to a complex, multi-voiced self-representation in heated debates.
Isabel Heger-Laube, "China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability" (Würzberg UP, 2025)
Q: For listeners who may be new to this field, how do you explain what state-led rural urbanization in China is and why this process produces landless patterns who have lost their land rights and the village homes?
The guest explains that state-led urbanization is a top-down process where the state drives relocation, land expropriation, and Hukou changes, creating a heterogeneous group of landless peasants who experience varying levels of benefit and loss; her ethnography centers on these individuals' own narratives to understand meaning-making beyond policy outcomes.
Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple
Q: What is your view on leadership within Dalit movements—should it be autonomous and mass-based rather than charismatic?
Leadership should arise from organized, mass-based mobilization of the poor within Dalit communities; charisma is acceptable but must be sustained through organizational strength and a clear material program that centers the majority's needs over symbolic gestures.
Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple
Q: Why do you favor the term 'Scheduled Castes' as a self-definition, and how does that connect to your strategy for political negotiation?
Choosing Scheduled Castes as a term helps unify diverse sub-castes under a common political program focused on rights and redistribution, enabling a stronger negotiating position with the state while highlighting the need for material improvements rather than symbolic recognition alone.

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