New Books in Sociology
Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
- Website
- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/sociology/
- Description
- Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-24 14:29
- last episode published
- 2024-11-24 09:00
- publication frequency
- 1.73 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 3268
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- Categories
- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-24 | How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million dollars? In America, your liberty--or even your life--may be forfeit not simply because of what you d... |
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| 2024-11-23 | Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathetic and more concerned with equity. In practice, however, these good intentions have not translated int... |
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| 2024-11-21 | In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-legged machines equipped with cameras and sensors would join a network of drones and automated surveil... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores how each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Cen... |
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| 2024-11-21 | Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fans worship film stars as deities. Focusing on temples dedicated to Bollywood (Hindi cinema) stars and th... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024) Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games into living embodiments of their cherished characters. Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity (Reaktion,... |
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| 2024-11-20 | What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that Social Spaces an... |
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| 2024-11-19 | In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complicit participation and that of other audience members and theater professionals, deftly examining the pr... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are displaced within their own countries. In We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced (J... |
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| 2024-11-15 | How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) about her PhD research investigating ho... |
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