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Episodes

Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)

29 Oct 2024

55m

Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)

29 Oct 2024

56m

Townsend Middleton, "Quinine's Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter" (U California Press, 2024)

28 Oct 2024

1h 7m

Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)

27 Oct 2024

41m

Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)

26 Oct 2024

1h 3m

Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

25 Oct 2024

39m

Daniela Bevilacqua, "From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus' Understanding of Embodied Practices" (Equinox, 2024)

24 Oct 2024

32m

Tamara Jacka, "Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China" (Anu Press, 2023)

21 Oct 2024

56m

Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)

20 Oct 2024

50m

Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, "Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture" (Saqi Books, 2024)

18 Oct 2024

1h 21m

Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration

17 Oct 2024

1h 6m

Meghana Joshi, "Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin" (Berghahn, 2024)

15 Oct 2024

59m

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In this podcast, Dr. Miranda Melcher speaks with Dr. Meghana Joshi about her book, "Children are Everywhere," which explores demographic worries and reproductive practices in reunified Berlin. The conversation kicks off with Joshi sharing her background and what drives her research. She introduces the idea of "conspicu...

Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott, "Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls" (Lexington Book, 2024)

11 Oct 2024

55m

Kanupriya Dhingra, "Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

11 Oct 2024

55m

Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)

09 Oct 2024

1h 21m

Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

06 Oct 2024

1h 24m

Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives