In order to hear about new ideas and work in the fields of communication, media and performance anthropology, the editors of CaMP blog have reached out to recently published authors whose work provides new voice in the conversation.
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Books Sorted by Region (no longer current)
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Crystal Abidin on her book, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Emerald Insights. Interview by Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson.
Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book, An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play. Berghahn Books.
Erika Alpert on her book, The Relationship People: Mediating Love and Marriage in Twenty-First Century Japan. Rowman and Littlefield. Interview by Robert Marshall.
Morgan Ames on her book, The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child. Interview by Henry Jenkins.
Sareeta Amrute on her new book, Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
A. Aneesh on the publication of his new book, Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Julie Archambault on her new book, Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Anna Eisenstein.
Noah Amir Arjomand on his new book, Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Susan Seizer.
Lynnette Arnold on her book, Living Together across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families. Oxford University Press. Interview by Diego Arispe-Bazán.
Netta Avineri and Jesse Harasta on their edited volume, Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of Language. Palgrave.
Valérie Robin Azevedo on her book, Los Silencios de la guerra. Interview by Emily Fjaellon Thompson.
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Anna Babel on her book, Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Diego Arispe- Bazan.
Narges Bajoghli on her book, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic. Stanford University Press. Interview by Zehra Hashmi.
Chris Ball on his book,Exchanging Words: Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park. University of New Mexico Press. Interview by Meghanne Barker.
Gretchen Bakke on her book, The Likeness. University of California Press. Interview by Krisztina Fehérváry.
Elisabeth Barakos on her book, Language Policy as Business: Discourse, ideology and practice. Interview by Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà.
Meghanne Barker on her book, Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods. Cornell University Press. Interview by Alex Warburton.
Rusty Barnett on his new book, From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender and Gay Male Subcultures. Oxford University Press. Interview by Sandhya Narayanan.
Nicholas Bartlett on his book, Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China. University of California Press. Interview with Yun Chen.
E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis discuss Bernard Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia, edited by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis. Stanford University Press. Interview by Hannah Carlan.
Richard Bauman on his book, A Most Valuable Medium: The Remediation of Oral Performance on Early Commercial Recordings. Indiana University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Shawn Bender on his book, Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care. Stanford University. Interview by Nick Seaver.
Ulla Berg on her new book, Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. New York University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
David Berliner on his book Becoming Other: Heterogeneity and the Plasticity of the Self. Berghahn Books. Interview by Todd Meyers.
Elise Berman on her book, Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands. Oxford University Press. Interview by Shannon Ward.
Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor on their edited volume, Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media. Berghahn Press.
Sarah Besky on her book, Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. University of California Press. Interview by Shulan Sun.
Jon Bialecki on his book, A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement. University of California Press. Interview by Anna Eisenstein.
Yorum Bilu on his book, With Us More Than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad. Stanford University Press. Interview by Yael Assor.
Crystal Biruk on her book, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World. Duke University Press. Interview by Sheng Long.
Amahl Bishara on her book, Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression. Stanford University Press. Interview by Sarah Ihmoud.
Steven Black on his book, Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health: Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa. Rutgers University Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese on their book, Voices of a City Market: An Ethnography. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Amanda Kaminsky.
Susan Blum on her new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College. Cornell University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Tom Boylston on his book, The Stranger at the Feast: Prohibition and Mediation in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Community. University of California Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
Andrew Brandel on his book, Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Setrag Manoukain.
Charles Briggs on his book, Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine. Duke University Press. Interview by Daniel Krugman.
Charles Briggs on his book, Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge. University Press of Colorado. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Tim Brookes on his book, Writing Beyond Writing: Lessons from Endangered Alphabets. Endangered Alphabets Project. Interview by Erik Shonstrom.
Mara Buchbinder on her book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. University of California Press. Interview by Hyemin Lee.
Ergin Bulut on his book, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry. Cornell University Press. Interview by Xiao Ke.
Sam Byrd on his new book, The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Culture in a Southern City. New York University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Darren Byler on his book, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Duke University Press. Interview by Xiao Ke.
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Melissa Caldwell on her book, Living Faithfully in an Unjust World: Compassionate Care in Russia. University of California Press. Interview by Natalja Czarnecki.
Jérôme Camal on his book, Creolized Aurality: Guadaloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Sara Isabel Castro Font.
Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona Wright (eds) discuss Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power. University of Toronto Press.
E. Summerson Carr on her book, Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the spread of Motivational Interviewing. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Jessica Sujata Chandras on her book, Mother Tongue Prestige: The Sociolinguistics of Privilege in Urban Middle-Class Education in India. Routledge Press. Interview by Priya Makarand Dabak.
Moyukh Chatterjee on his book, Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities. Durham: Duke University Press, Interview by Drew Kerr.
Alex E. Chávez on his new book,Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Politics of Huapango Arribeňo. Duke University Press. Interview by William Cotter.
Kimberly Chong on her new book, Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China. Duke University Press. Interview by Johannes Lenhard.
Stephen Chrisomalis on his book, Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History. MIT University Press. Interview by Grace East.
Nishaant Choksi discusses his book Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway.
Alessandra Ciucci on her book, The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Nicco La Mattina.
Lindsey Clouse on her book, Stigmatized on Screen: How Hollywood Portrays Nonstandard Accents. Rowman and Littlefield. Interview by Jeremy Rud.
Francis Cody on his book, The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India. Cornell University Press. Interview by Rachel Howard.
Francis Cody on his book, The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Shikhar Goel.
Emily Contois and Zenia Kish on their edited book, Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation. University of Illinois Press.
Joanna Cook on her book, Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton University Press. Interview by Bingjang Yang.
Timothy Cooper on his book, Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace. Columbia University Press. Interview by Patrick Eisenlohr.
Ann I. Corwin on her book, Embracing Aging: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well. Rutgers University Press. Interview by H. Keziah Conrad.
James Costa on his new book, Revitalising Language in Provence: A Critical Approach. Wiley Blackwell. Interview by Sandhya Narayanan.
Susan Coutin on her book, On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy. University of California Press. Interview by Jennifer Chacon.
Ana Croegaert on her book, Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies. Rowman and Littlefield Press. Interview by Dejan Duric.
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Marcel Danesi on his book, Memes and the Future of Pop Culture. Brill Press. Interview by Leila Mzali.
Sonia Das on her new book, Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts. Oxford University Press. Interview by Lia Siewert.
E. Gabriel Dattatreyan on his book, The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi. Duke University Press. Interview by Eléonore Rimbault.
Christina Davis on her book, The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press. Interview by Gaya Morris.
Jenny Davis on her book, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things. MIT University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Erin Debenport on her new book, Fixing the Books: Secrecy, Literacy, and Perfectibility in Indigenous New Mexico. School of American Research Press. Interview by Shannon Ward
Jennifer Deger discusses Phone and Spear: A Yuta Anthropology. MIT University Press. Interview by Zeynep Gürsel.
Alex Dent discusses Digital Pirates: Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil. Stanford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Vanessa Díaz discusses Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood, Duke University Press. Interview by Sandhya Narayanan.
Hilary Dick on her book, Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants. University of Texas Press. Interview by Alejandro I. Paz.
David Divita on his book, Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life. University of Toronto. Interview by Cécile Evers.
Arseli Dokumaci on her book, Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds. Duke University Press. Interview by Nate Tilton.
Aurora Donzelli on her book, Method of Desire: Language, Morality, and Affect in Neoliberal Indonesia. University of Hawai’i Press. Interview by Setrag Manoukian.
Aurora Donzelli on her book, One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Nicco La Mattina.
Eva-Marie Dubuisson on her new book, Living Language in Kazakhstan: The Dialogic Emergence of an Ancestral Worldview. University of Pittsburgh Press. Interview by Meghanne Barker.
Brooke Erin Duffy on her new book, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Media, and Aspirational Work. Yale University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Stefanie Duguay on her book, Personal but Not Private: Queer Women, Sexuality, and Identity Modulation on Digital Platforms. Oxford University Press. Interview by Elias Alexander.
Christina Dunbar-Hester on her book, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology in Open Technology Cultures. Princeton University Press. Interview by Héctor Beltrán.
Stuart Dunmore on his book, Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. Interview by Christian Puma-Ninacuri.
Alessandro Duranti on his edited volume, Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson. Oxford University Press. Interview by Q.
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Kate Eichhorn on her new book, The End of Forgetting. Harvard University Press. Interview by Shuting Li.
Patrick Eisenlohr on his new book,Sounding Islam: Voice, Media and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean. University of California Press. Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim.
Terra Edwards on her book, Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language. Oxford University Press. Interview by Bob Offer-Westort.
Elizabeth Ellcessor on her book, In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality. Interview by Volha Verbilovich.
Nicholas Q. Emlen on his book, Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Gaya Morris.
Harri Englund on his new book, Gogo Breeze: Zambia’s Radio Elders and the Voices of Free Speech. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Georgia Ennis on her book Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Bernard Perley.
Falina Enriquez on her new book, The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil. University of Illinois Press. Interview by Owen Kohl.
Joseph Errington on his book, Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an Unnative Language. Oxford University Press. Interview by Jessica Peng.
Alberto Corsín Jiménez And Adolfo Estalella on their book, Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997–2017. Cornell University Press. Interview by Nomaan Hasan.
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Ayala Fader on her book, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. Interview by Yzza Sedrati.
Elizabeth Falconi and Kathryn Graber edited Storytelling as Narrative Practice: Ethnographic Approaches to the Stories We Tell. Brill Press. Interview by Dilara Inam.
Xiaofang Yao on her book, Power, Affect and Identity in the Linguistic Landscape. Routledge Press. Interview by Paul Gruba.
Alex Fattal on his book, Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Winifred Tate.
Alex Fattal on his book, Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict. Harvard University Press. Interview by Camilo Ruiz Sanchez.
Steven Feld on his book, Acoustemology: Four Lectures. Vox Lux Media. Interview by Marina Peterson.
Catherine Fennell on her book, Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Janet Connor.
Sujatha Fernandes on her book, Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim.
Jenanne Ferguson on her book, Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City. University of Nebraska Press. Interview by Laura Siragusa.
Daniel Fisher on his book, The Voice and Its Doubles: Media and Music in Northern Australia. Duke University Press. Interview by Georgia Ennis.
Fleming, Kara and Umberto Ansaldo on their book, Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination: Threatening Languages. Routledge University Press. Interview by Claudia Matachana.
Robert Foster on his book, Uneven Connections: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea. Australian National University Press. Interview by Ira Bashkow.
Michele Friedner on her book, Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Timothy Y. Loh.
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Susan Gal and Judith Irvine on their book, Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Hannah McElgunn.
Patrick W. Galbraith on his book, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Duke University Press. Interview by Xiao Ke.
Shaila Seshia Galvin on her book, Becoming Organic: Nature and Agriculture in the Indian Himalaya. Yale University Press. Interview by Ziya Kaya.
Inmaculada García-Sánchez on her annual review article. Interview by Kendall Powell.
Andrew Garrett on his book, The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall. Language, Memory, and Indigenous California. MIT Press. Interview by Carolina Rodriguez Alzza.
Haidy Geismar on her book, Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age. UCL Press. Interview by Josh Bell.
Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson on his book, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication. MIT Press. Interview by Emma Briant.
Ilana Gershon on her book, Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Matt Tomlinson.
Ilana Gershon on her book, The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to be Citizens in the Office. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli.
Reighan Gillam on her book, Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media. University of Illinois Press. Interview by Karina Beras.
Perry Gilmore on her book, Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki. Wiley Blackwell Press. Interview by Alma Gottlieb.
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp on their book, Disability Worlds. Duke University Press. Interview by Bridget Bradley.
Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler on their book, The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States. Columbia University Press, Interview by Pauline Turner Strong.
Jane Goodman on her book, Staging Cultural Encounters: Algerian Actors tour the United States. Indiana University Press. Interview by Janina Fenigsen.
Marjorie Goodwin and Asta Cekaite on their book, Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity. Routledge Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Mara Green on her book, Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal. University of California Press. Interview by Timothy Loh.
Shane Greene on his book, Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality. Duke University Press. Interview by Orin Starn.
Melissa Gregg on her book, Counter Productive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Jessica Grieser on her book, The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington DC. Georgetown University Press. Interview by Anna-Marie Sprenger.
Liz Gunner on her book, Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Louisa Meintjes
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Mack Hagood on his book, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control. Duke University Press. Interview by Jake Smith.
Britt Halvorson on her new book, Conversionary Sites: Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Josh Reno.
Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye on their new graphic novel, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship and Revolution. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Perry Sherouse.
Courtney Handman on her book, Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea. University of California Press. Interview by Dan Jorgensen.
Courtney Handman on her book, Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea. University of California Press. Interview by Rachel Apone.
Jessica Hardin on her book, Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa. Rutgers University Press. Interview by Courtney Handman.
Nick Harkness on his book, Glossolalia and the Problem of Language. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Hyemin Lee.
Naomi Haynes on her new book, Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. University of California Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
Angie Heo on her book, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt. University of California Press. Interview by Alice Yeh.
Eric Henry on his book, The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China. Cornell University Press. Interview by Andy Zhenzhou Ten.
Kregg Hetherington on his book, Government of Beans. Duke University Press. Interview by Indivar Jonnalagadda.
Julia M. Hildebrand on her book, Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. Interview by Maximilian Jablonowski.
Sarah Hillewaert on her book, Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya. Fordham University Press. Interview by Kamala Russell.
Adam Hodges on his book, When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language. Stanford University Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Erika Hoffman-Dilloway on her new book, Signing and Belonging in Nepal. Gallaudet University Press. Interview by Rebekah Cupitt.
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Lilly Irani on her book, Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India. Princeton University Press. Interview by Chris Kelty.
Richard Irvine on his book, An Anthropology of Deep Time: Geological Temporality and Social Life. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
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Kristina Jacobsen on her new book, The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging. University of North Carolina Press. Interview by Morgan Siewert.
Larisa Jašarević on her book, Beekeeping in the End Times. Indiana University Press. Interview by Mira Guth.
Florian Jaton on his book, The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating. The MIT Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Omotayo Jolaosho (and Dorothy Hodgson) on Tayo’s book, You Can’t Go to War Without Song: Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa. Indiana University Press. Interview by Deborah Durham.
Graham Jones on his new book, Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Dalila Ozier.
Ieva Jusionyte on her new book, Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border. University of California Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
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Sheena Kalayil discusses Second Generation South Asian Britons: Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity. Rowman and Littlefield Press. Interview by Kim Fernandes.
Russell Kaschula on his book, Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond: Interview Questions. Routledge Press. Interview by Jennifer Cox.
Tamar Katriel discusses her book, Defiant Discourse: Speech and Action in Grassroots Activism. Routledge Press. Interview by Irit Dekel.
Webb Keane on his new book, Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories. Princeton University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Elizabeth Keating on her new book, Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office Place. University of California Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Piers Kelly on his book, The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines. Oxford University Press. Interview by Carolina Rodriguez Alzza.
Jay Ke-Schutte on his book, Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations. University of California Press. Interview by Andrew Carruthers.
Chihab El Khachab on his book, Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, And Mediation Shape The Industry. American University in Cairo. Interview by Meg Morley.
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, on her book, Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan. University of California Press. Interview by Drew Kerr.
Suk Young Kim on her new book, K-pop Live: Fans, Idols and Multimedia Performance. Stanford University Press. Interview by Chuyun Oh.
Suk-Young Kim on her book, Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance. Stanford University Press. Interview by Haeeun Shin.
Haley De Korne on her book, Language Activism: Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality. De Gruyter. Interview by Elizabeth McHugh.
Kinga Koźmińska on her book, Soundings and the Politics of Sociolinguistic Listening for Transnational Space. Bloomsbury Academic Press. Leonie Schulte.
Pamela Klassen on her book, The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Georgia Ennis.
Natalia Knoblock on her book, Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis. Bloomsbury Academic. Interview by Sofiya Asher.
Corinne Kratz on her book, Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond. Duke University Press. Interview by Howard Morphy.
Don Kulick on his book, A Death in the Rainforest. Workman Publishing. Interview by Alex Golub.
Ingrid Kummels on her book, Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of OaxaCalifornia. Rutgers University Press. Interview by María Eugenia Ulfe.
Ingrid Kummels on her book, Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US. Berghahn Books. Interview with Alana Mazur.
Sandra Kurfürst on her book, Dancing Youth: Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam. Columbia University Press. Interview by Jonathan DeVore.
Adrie Kusserow on her book, The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems. Duke University Press. Interview by Sofía Cifuentes Contador.
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Isabel Laack on her book, Aztec Religion and Art of Writing: Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality. Brill Press. Interview by Patawee Promsen.
Michele LaFrance on her book, Institutional Ethnography: A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers. Utah State University Press. Interview by Sarah Fischer.
Patricia Lange on her edited book, The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, edited with Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, and Jolynna Sinanan. Routledge Press.
William Leap on his book, Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History. Palgrave Press. Interview by Brian Adam-Thies.
Junehui Ahn discusses her book, Between Self and Community: Children’s Personhood in a Globalized South Korea. Rutgers University Press. Interview by Hyemin Lee.
Andrea Leone-Pizzighella on her book, Discourses of Student Success: Language, Class, and Social Personae in Italian Secondary Schools. Routledge. Interview by Clara Miller-Broomfield.
Susan Lepselter on her book, The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity and UFOs in the American Uncanny. University of Michigan Press. Interview by Micol Seigel.
Mark LeVine on his book, Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam. University of California Press. Interview by Lara Sabra.
Siv B. Lie on her book, Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Lynn Hooker.
Noelle Molé Liston on her book, The Truth Society: Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi’s Italy. Cornell University Press. Interview by Jonah Rubin.
Sun Sun Lim on her book, Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Jessa Lingel on her book, An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist. Princeton University Press. Interview by Nazli Azergun.
Mayzar Lotfalian on his new book, What People Do With Images: Aesthetics, Politics and the Production of Iranian Visual Culture in Transnational Circuits. Sean Kingston Publishing. Interview by Michael Fischer.
Michael Lucey on his book, What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Brent Luvaas on his book, Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Matthew Raj Webb.
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Jennifer Mack on her book, The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Lynda Chubak.
Scott MacLochlainn on his book The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes Our Social Worlds. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Lynda Chubak.
Miki Makihara and Juan Luis Rodríguez on their book, Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power & Politics in Chile & Venezuela. Interview by Tony Webster.
Paul Manning on his book, Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Kamala Russell.
Claire Maree on her book, queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media. University of Oxford Press. Interview by Laura Miller.
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas on her book, Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires. Duke University Press. Interview by Sarah Muir.
Sylvia Martin on her book, Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries. Oxford University Press. Interview by Maria Nikolaeva Lechtarova.
Adeline Masquelier on her book, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. The University of Chicago Press. Interview by Rahul Advani
Leya Mathew discusses her book, English Linguistic Imperialism from Below: Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Shivani Nag.
John Mathias on his book, Uncommon Cause: Living for Enviromental Justice in Kerala. University of California Press. Interview by Chip Zuckerman.
William Mazzarella on his book, The Mana of Mass Society. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Elayne Oliphant.
Shaka McGlotten on their book, Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life. Routledge Press. Interview with Robyn Taylor-Neu.
Shannon Mattern on her book, A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton University Press. Interview by Elliot Montpellier.
Tomas Matza on his book, Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia. Duke University Press. Interview by Natalja Czarnecki.
Janet McIntosh on her book, Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. Oxford University Press. Interview by Norma Mendoza-Denton.
Lisa Messeri on her book, In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. Duke University Press. Interview by Stefan Helmreich.
Birgit Meyer on her book, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity. University of California Press. Interview by Yeon-Ju Bae.
Lisa Mitchell on her book, Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Yasmin Moll on her book, The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for New Egypt. Stanford University. Interview with Sherine Hamdy.
Roxana Moroşanu on her new book, An Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK. Palgrave Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Marc L. Moskowitz on his book, Internet Video Culture in China: YouTube, Youku, and the Space in Between. Routledge. Interview by Marcella Szablewicz.
Tom Mould on his book, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America. Indiana University. Interview by Fionnán Mac Gabhann.
Sarah Muir on her new book, Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Kabir Tambar.
Keith Murphy on his new book, Swedish Design: An Ethnography. Cornell University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Luis Felipe Murillo on his book, Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures. Stanford University Press. Interview by Biella Coleman.
Fred R. Myers and Terry Smith discuss Six Paintings from Papunya: a conversation, with a reflection by Stephen Gilchrist. Duke University Press. Interview with Jennifer L Biddle.
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Constantine V. Nakassis on his new book, Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Constantine Nakassis on his book, Onscreen/Offscreen. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Chris Ball.
Dario Nardini on his book, Surfers paradise: un’etnografia del surf sulla Gold Coast australiana. Ledizioni Press. Interview by Nikko La Mattina.
Juan Manuel del Nido on his book, Taxi vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires. Stanford University Press. Interview by Diego Valdivieso
Ronald Niezen on his book, #HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice. Stanford University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Chaim Noy on his new book, Thank You for Dying for Our Country: Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem.Oxford University Press. Interview by Lindsey Pullam.
Mwenda Ntarangwi on his book, The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya. University of Illinois Press. Interview by Christine Chalifoux.
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Walter Ong’s Language as Hermeunetic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization. Cornell University Press. Interview by Maddy Adams.
Martijn Oosterbaan on his new book, Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media and Urban Violence in Brazil. Pennsylvania State University. Interview by Jessica Rivers.
Elliott Oring on his book, Joking Asides: The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor. Utah State University Press. Interview by Emily Bianchi.
John P. O’Regan on his book, Global English and Political Economy. Routledge Press. Interview by Bonnie Uricuoli.
Wazmah Osman on her book, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to you by Foreigners, Warlords and Activists. University of Illinois Press. Interview by Narges Bajoghli.
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David Parisi on his book, Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Carlin Wing.
Sabina Perrino on her book, Narrating Migration: Intimacies of Exclusion in Northern Italy. Routledge. Interview by Daniela Narvaez.
Ben Peters on his new book, How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet.MIT University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Jennifer Petersen on her book, How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech. Duke University Press. Interview by Joseph Wilson.
Marina Peterson on her book, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles. Duke University Press. Interview by Drew Kerr.
Alex Pillen on her book, Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. Brill Press. Interview by Janet McIntosh.
Eric Hoenes del Pinal on his book, Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Max Conrad.
Rachel Plotnick on her book, Power Button: : A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing. MIT University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Edith Podhovnik on her book, Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Katja Politt.
John Postill on his book, The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from the Online Culture Wars. Routledge Press. Interview by Katrien Pype.
John Postill on his new book, The Rise of Nerd Politics: Digital Activism and Political Change.Pluto Books. Interview by Angela VandenBroek.
Elizabeth Povinelli on her graphic novel, The Inheritance. Duke University Press. Interview by Randeep Hothi.
Michael Prentice on his book, Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in Post-Hierarchy Korea. Stanford University Press. Interview by Katherine K. Chen.
Sonya Pritzker on her book, Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China. University of Michigan Press. Interview by Jiarui Sun.
Denis Provencher on his book, Queer Maghrebi French. Liverpool University Press. Interview by Adeli Block.
Deborah Puccio-Den on her book, Mafiacraft: An Ethnography of Deadly Silence. HAU Books. Interview by Elliott Wiseman.
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Justine Buck Quijada on her book, Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets: Rituals of History in Post-Soviet Buryatia. Oxford University Press. Interview by Claudia Lahr.
E. Moore Quinn on the edited volume, Women and Pilgrimage. CABI Digital Library.
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Thinking with Thinking with an Accent: A Roundtable Conversation. Discussion with Slava Greenberg, Michelle Pfeifer, Vijay Ramjattan, Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar. University of California Press.
Joshua Reno on his book, Home Signs: An Ethnography of Life Beyond and Beside Language. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Danilyn Rutherford.
Angela Reyes and Stanton Wortham on their book, Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event. Routledge. Interview by Alex McGrath.
Justin Richland on his book, Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation–US Engagements. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Hannah McElgunn.
Catherine Rhodes on her book, Undoing Modernity: Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan. University of Texas Press. Interview by Kristina Jacobsen.
Jennifer Robertson on her book, Robo sapiens Japanicus: Robots, gender, family and the Japanese nation. University of California Press. Interview by Dan White.
Gerald Roche on his book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet. Cornell University Press. Interview by Shannon Ward.
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Rusty Barrett.
Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yangisako on their book, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism. Duke University Press. Interview by Janet Conner.
Carl Rommel on his book, Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics. Interview by Jessica Winegar.
Jonathan Rosa on his book, Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Oxford University Press. Interview by Jessica López-Espino.
Matthew Rosen on his book, Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe. Vanderbilt University Press. Interview by Shinjung Nam.
Anat Rosenberg on her book, The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity. Oxford University Press. Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche.
Jennifer Roth-Gordon on her new book,Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro. University of California Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon
Ratan Kumar Roy on his book, Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences. Routledge. Interview by Sharonee Dasgupta.
Alice Rudge on her book, Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest. University of Nebraska Press. Interview by Steven Feld.
Danilyn Rutherford on her book Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World. Interview by Josh Reno.
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Robert Samet on his book, Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Alejandro Velasco.
Diana Espirito Santo on her book, Spirited Histories: Technologies, Media, and Trauma in Paranormal Chile. Routledge. Interview by Diego Maria Malara.
Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà on her book, Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus. Routledge. Interview by Maryam Amiri.
Marlene Schäfers on her book, Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Andrew Bush.
Ori Schwarz on his book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together. Wiley Blackwell Press. Interview by Dan M. Kotliar.
Mark Sicoli on his new book, Saying and Doing in Zapotec: Multimodality, Resonance, and the Language of Joint Actions. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Grace East.
Philip Seargeant on his book, The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Kevin Laddapong.
Llerena Guiu Searle on her book, Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Liza Youngling.
Nick Seaver on his book, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Tarleton Gillespie.
Jane Setter on her book, Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Oxford University Press. Interview by Paola Medina González.
Shalini Shankar on her new book, Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian-American Consumers. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Merav Shohet on her book, Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam. University of California Press. Interview by Annemarie Samuels.
Bradd Shore on his book, Shakespeare and Social Theory: The Play of Great Ideas. Routledge. Interview by Rob Shore.
Sarah Shulist on her new book, Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon.University of Toronto Press. Interview by Shannon Ward.
Teri Silvio on her book, Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation From Taiwan. University of Hawai’i Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Inês Signorini on her edited volume, Language Practices of Cyberhate in Unfolding Global and Local Realities. Cambridge University Press.
Michael Silverstein’s book, Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language discussed by E. Summerson Carr, Susan Gal, and Constantine Nakassis. Interview by Ilana Gershon. Cambridge University Press.
Danko Šipka on his book, Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Interview by Nikolina Zenovic.
James Slotta on his book, Anarchy and the Art of Listening: The Politics and Pragmatics of Reception in Papua New Guinea. Cornell University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Susan Slyomovics on her book, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage. Stanford University Press. Interview by Sultan Doughan and Dan Hicks.
Maria Sonevytsky on her book, Tantsi. Bloomsbury Publishing. Interview by Ifigeneia Gianne.
Patricia Spyer on her book, Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia. Fordham University Press. Interview by Karen Strassler.
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins on her book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine. Stanford University Press. Interview by Hazal Corak.
Damien Stankiewicz on his new book, Europe Un-Imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Yana Stainova on her book, Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela. University of Michigan Press. Interview by Ahona PalchoudhuriI
Rebecca Stein on her book, Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine. Stanford University Press. Interview by Areeg Faisal.
Jonathan Sterne on his book, Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology. Duke University Press. Interview by Toni Nieminen.
Karen Strassler on her new book, Demanding Images. Duke University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Claudia Strauss on her book, What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic. Cornell University Press. Interview by Carrie Lane.
Stevie Suan on his book, Anime’s Identity. University of Minnesota Press. Interview by Wendy Goldberg.
Pavitra Sundar on her book, Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema. University of Michigan Press. Interview by Anaar Desai-Stephens.
David Sutton on his book, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk with Greek Examples. Berghan Books. Interview by Ariana Gunderson.
Nina Sylvanus on her new book, Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
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Ben Tausig on his book, Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint. Oxford University Press. Interview by Mack Hagood.
Sirpa Tenhunen on her book, A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Irene Theodoropoulou and Johanna Tovar on their edited volume, Research Companion to Language and Country Branding. Routledge.
Katrina Daly Thompson on their book, Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America. New York University Press. Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim.
Tim Thurston on his book, Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Tibet. University of Washington Press. Interview by Shannon Ward.
Julia Ticona on her new book, Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Jonas Tinius on his book, State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Matthew Raj Webb.
Jeffrey Tolbert co-edited with Michael Dylan Foster the edited volume, Möbius Media: Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque. Utah State University.
Matt Tomlinson on his book, God is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific. University of Hawai’i Press. Interview by Jon Bialecki.
Matt Tomlinson on his book, Speaking with the Dead: An Ethnography of Extrahuman Experience. Punctum Books. Interview with Kristina Wirtz.
Anne Marie Trester on her book, Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers in Linguistics. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Anna Tuckett on her book, Rules, Paper, Status: Migrant and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy. Stanford University Press. Interview by Dodom Kim.
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Bonnie Urciuoli on her co-edited volume, The Spanish Language in the United States: Rootedness, Racialization, and Resistance. edited with José A. Cobas, Joe Feagin and Daniel J. Delgado. Routledge.
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Herve Varenne on his book, Educating in Life: Ethnographies of Challenging New Normals. Routledge University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Roxanne Varzi on her book, Death in a Nutshell: An Anthropology Whodunit. Interview by Sherine Hamdy.
Roxanne Varzi on her book, Last Scene Underground: An Ethnographic Novel of Iran. Stanford University Press. Interview by Harvey Stark.
Roxanne Varzi, on her book, Silent Scream: A Nordic non-Noir (sequel to Death in a Nutshell). Interview by Sherine Hamdy.
Katherine Verdery on her book, My Life as a Spy. Duke University Press. Interview by Tim Gitzen.
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families. Oxford University Press. Interview by Amy Garey.
Neha Vora on her book, Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar. Stanford University Press. Interview by Patrick Lewis.
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Shireen Walton on her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and Community in Milan and Beyond. UCL Press. Interview by Rachel Howard.
Shannon Ward on her book, Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau. University of Toronto Press. Interview by Hyemin Lee.
Tony Webster on his book, Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry. University of Arizona Press. Interview by Juan Luis Rodriquez
Lionel Wee and Robbie Goh on their book, Language, Space, and Cultural Play: Theorizing Affect in the Semiotic Landscape. Cambridge University Press. Interview by Ida Hoequist.
Amanda Weidman on her book, Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India. University of California Press. Interview by Constantine V. Nakassis.
Daniel White on his book, Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety. Stanford University Press. Interview by Drew Kerr.
Brad Wigger on his book, Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels. Stanford University Press. Interview by Laura Murry.
Eitan Wilf on his book, Creativity on Demand: The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Quentin Williams on his book, Remix Multilingualism: Hip-hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Misa Clark.
Matthew Wolf-Meyer on his book, Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age. University of Minnesota Press. Toni Nieminen.
Kit Woolard on her new book, Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia. Oxford University Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
Christina Woolner on her book, Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Amanda Weidman.
Johanna Woydack on her book, Linguistic Ethnography of a Multilingual Call Center: London Calling. Springer. Interview by Kristina Nielsen.
Helena Wulff on her book, Rhythms of Writing: An Anthropology of Irish Literature. Bloomsbury Press. Interview by Ilana Gershon.
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Fang Xu on her book, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China. Rowman and Littlefield. Interview by Andy Zhengzhou Tan.
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JoAnne Yates on her book with Craig N. Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880. John Hopkins University Press. Interview by Michael Prentice.
Rihan Yeh on her new book, Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City. University of Chicago Press. Interview by Hector Beltran.
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David Zeitlyn on his book, Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers. Routledge Press. Interview by Stephan Feuchtwang.
Lauren Zentz on her book, Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy: History, Language and Identity in Indonesia. Multilingual Matters. Interview by Zane Goebel.
Lauren Zentz on her book, Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook. Routledge. Interview by Özge Korkmaz.
