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How should we value culture? In What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture (Monash University
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and specta
In her book Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Duke University Press, 2018),
Can every aspect of society be 'creative'? In Against Creativity (Verso, 2018), Oli Mould, a lecture
Today we are joined by Grant Farred, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University
According to most experts, boys have more trouble in schools than girls. Further, African-American b
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim about her new book, Understanding Narrative Inqu
Though early American labor organizers agitated for the eight-hour workday on the grounds that they
What can a researcher do to promote social justice? A conventional image of a researcher describes h
Television started as a dream of nineteenth-century science fiction. It took its place in the twenti
What are the hidden structures of the television industry? In The Talent Industry: Television, Cultu
From Dancing with the Stars to the high-profile airport abandonment of seven-year-old Artyom Savelye
How have academics been represented in children’s books? In Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Ch
How does postcolonial theory and the work of Freud help us understand trauma? In The Future Life of
In The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism (West Virgin
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers are anthropologists who have an interest in studying film for its v
I left the kitchen radio on while reading Jacqueline Rose‘s Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty (F
How can human rights campaigns function in consumer and celebrity society? In The Mass Appeal of Hum
In the last few decades, questions relating to Islam’s compatibility with liberal secular democracy,
Nick Hubble’s The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) is
