New Books in Sociology
Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
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- Interviews with Sociologists about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-06 13:51
- last episode published
- 2025-03-06 09:00
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-06 | Aiming to explore the Sino-Tibetan border region, which is renamed “Shangri-La” by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir (U Washington Press, 2025) examines how the deployment of the French notion of terroir creates n... |
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| 2025-03-06 |
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024) Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, Conditions of Violence (de Gruyter, 2024) presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ... |
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| 2025-03-05 | Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal culture from which friendship, camaraderie and sol... |
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| 2025-03-03 | Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy (SUNY Press, 2024) by Dr. Waiyee Loh brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025) Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to move to a nearby nation that is similar in... |
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| 2025-03-03 |
John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019) There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first monographic marriage of comparative and interpretive methods. In this episode of the special series New Books... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024) How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and help an elephant cross the road. The Presence of Elephants: Sharing Lives and Landscapes in Assam (Routledge, 2024) is an anthropological... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality. According to Noam Leshem in Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land (U Chicago Press, 2025)... |
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| 2025-02-27 | Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate professor Laureen Hom in The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles (Californ... |
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| 2025-02-27 | In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002, an event witnessed closely by the author. Dhattiwala compares peaceful and violent towns, village... |
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