As a host for the New Books Network podcast channel, I conduct interviews with authors of the latest academic books. I consider this an important step in my efforts at making academic knowledge accessible and public.
Here is a collection of the interviews.
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2023
Jul 25: Lisa Mitchell. 2023. Hailing The State: Indian Democracy Between Elections. Duke University Press.
Jun 13: Malini Ranganathan, David Pike & Sapana Doshi. 2023. Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City. Cornell University Press.
Mar 24: Adam Michael Auerbach & Tariq Thachil. 2023. Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness. Princeton University Press.
Feb 11: Ijlal Naqvi. 2022. Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan. Oxford University Press.
2022
Dec 22: Rumya Putcha. 2022. The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India. Duke University Press.
Nov 4: Harris Solomon. 2022. Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma. Duke University Press.
Oct 13: Sanjeev Routray. 2022. The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. Stanford University Press. (co-hosted with Garima Jaju)
May 31: Rajesh Veeraraghavan. 2021. Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India. Oxford University Press.
May 30: Aniket Aga. 2021. Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India. Yale University Press.
May 18: Jacob Doherty. 2021. Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability. University of California Press.
Mar 31: Paige Sweet. 2021. The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath. University of California Press.
Feb 9: Rashmi Sadana. 2021. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. University of California Press.
Jan 26: Lisa Bjorkman, ed. 2021. Bombay Brokers. Duke University Press.
Jan 25: Juan del Nido. 2021. Taxis vs Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires. Stanford University Press.
2021
Dec 7: Jisha Menon. 2021. Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City. Northwestern University Press.
Sept 7: Nayanika Mathur. 2021. Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene. University of Chicago Press.
Aug 10: Gowri Vijayakumar. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response. Stanford University Press.
Aug 10: Anna Ruddock. 2021. Special Treatment: Student Doctors and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Stanford University Press.
July 22: Jacob Lederman. 2020. Chasing World Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires. University of Minnesota Press.
May 11: Poulami Roychowdhury. 2020. Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India. Oxford University Press.
April 13: Lisa Björkman. 2020. Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories. Association of Asian Studies Press.
April 8: Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido. 2021. “New Ethnographies of the Global South”. Contexts (Special Issue, Winter 2021). (co-host)
April 6: Maurice Rafael Magaña. 2020. Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico. University of California Press.
March 15: Sudhir Chella Rajan. 2020. Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent. Harvard University Press.
February 26: Deborah Thomas. 2019. Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Entanglement, Witnessing, Repair. Duke University Press. (co-host)
February 12: Eli Wilson. 2020. Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers. NYU Press. (co-host)
February 1: David Trouille. 2020. Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties. University of Chicago Press. (co-host)
January 27: Saiba Varma. 2020. The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir. Duke University Press.
2020
November 30: Jinee Lokaneeta. 2020. Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India. University of Michigan Press.
November 24: Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2020. Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi. Duke University Press.
November 20: Amit Rai. 2019. Jugaad Time: Everyday Ecologies of Hacking in India. Duke University Press.
November 9: James Staples. 2020. Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India". University of Washington Press.
October 23: Kristin Plys. 2020. Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India. Cambridge University Press.
August 24: Kareem Khubchandani. 2020. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife. University of Michigan Press.
August 10: Mathangi Krishnamurthy. 2018. 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Center Economy. Oxford University Press.
July 3: Jonathan Parry. 2020. Classes of Labor: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town. Routledge. (hosted with John Harriss)
June 22: Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards. 2019. Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research. University of California Press.
May 27: Govind Gopakumar. 2020. Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities. MIT Press.
May 15: Nusrat Chowdhury. 2019. Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh. Stanford University Press.
May 5: Mallika Kaur. 2019. Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper. Palgrave-Macmillan.
May 1: Jyoti Puri. 2016. Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India. Duke University Press.
April 13: Maura Finkelstein. 2019. Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai. Duke University Press.
April 2: Marco Garrido. 2019. The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila. University of Chicago Press.