Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
10 Aug 2026
36m
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Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)
09 Aug 2026
52m
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
09 Aug 2026
58m
Marisa Karyl Franz, "Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums" (Cornell UP, 2026)
09 Aug 2026
56m
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
07 Aug 2026
0m
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
03 Aug 2026
56m
Katie Barclay, "The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
01 Aug 2026
31m
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)
31 Jul 2026
1h 16m
David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab eds., "Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology" (Berghahn, 2025)
27 Jul 2026
1h 4m
Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)
26 Jul 2026
1h 0m
Victoria Donovan, "Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East" (Daunt Books, 2025)
26 Jul 2026
1h 4m
Andrew Flachs, "Feeding the World as If People Mattered: How Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
24 Jul 2026
49m
Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)
24 Jul 2026
1h 3m
Caste as a Material Question with Rahul Sonpimple
20 Jul 2026
1h 5m
Elana Resnick, "Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
19 Jul 2026
41m
Recall This Book x The Caste Pod: a Crossover episode with Ajantha Subramanian
16 Jul 2026
1h 0m
Cécile Bishop, "Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World" (Duke UP, 2026)
11 Jul 2026
54m
Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
08 Jul 2026
1h 1m
Jay Szpilka, "BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
07 Jul 2026
1h 8m
Arpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
01 Jul 2026
54m
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