In this podcast Les Back talks to Charlynne Bryan about her experience of taking part in the project Les undertook with Shamser Sinha which explored the possibility of a more 'sociable sociology'. This project experimented with treating participants as co-authors and Charlynne reflects on her experiences of engaging with the opportunities and risks attached to participating in a project of this sort.

Les Back on Sociable Sociology

Alison Phipps hosts an episode with Tina Sikka where they discuss power, consent and inequality in sexual relationships. 
This episode is part of the Alternative to woman's hour takeover with Tina Sikka, Alison Phipps and Nikki Godden-Rasul. 

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-consent-and-justice.html

E160 Alison Phipps & Tina Sikka: Sexual relationships, power & inequality

"Storytelling: that's part of the power of podcasts, and just the power of ethnography in general, to really have people tell their own stories. And I think it's those stories that really capture students' interest and attention, and make them start to think about why anthropology really matters." 

This month, we're bringing you an episode from our friends at Anthropod, the podcast for the Society for Cultural Anthropology. In this episode, Angela Jenks, medical anthropologist and Assistant Teaching Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, talks to Anar Parikh, PhD candidate at Brown University, about how to teach with podcasts. They cover the strengths and weaknesses of using audio in the classroom, teaching students how to listen, strategies for engaging both graduate students and undergrads, and how to encourage students and teachers to engage with the technology of audio production. 

You can follow Dr. Jenks on Twitter at @angelacjenks, and interviewer Anar Parikh at @anarparikh. 

Find Anthropod on the Cultural Anthropology website (culanth.org), Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 

CITATIONS 

Invisibilia: "the power of categories." https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/384065938/the-power-of-categories 

Only Human: "I got Indian in my family: an Anther Round takeover." https://www.wnyc.org/story/i-got-indian-my-family-another-round-takeover/ 

QUOTES 

"A lot of podcasts are designed to communicate among anthropologists, and that can be really useful... or sometimes they're designed to communicate across academic disciplines... But I think when there's a focus on pedagogy, I think very often a lot of that focus has to be on considering an audience that may only have a very vague understanding of what exactly anthropology is, what we do, what major debate or issues in the field have been. And so oftentimes trying to sort through those topics and kind of explain them in ways that may be very different if you're talking to an audience of anthropologists." 

This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the schools of Culture, History, and Language and Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and is produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. 

Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com 

Show notes by Ian Pollock 

KEYWORDS: Anthropology, ethnography, podcasts, podcasting, audio, pedagogy, teaching, education, graduate, undergraduate

Humours

#13 TFS presents Anthropod: "Podcasts and Pedagogy: audio in the anthropology classroom"

In this preview of Undisciplining, Dave O'Brien introduces the workshop he is leading which brings together academics, third sector, and campaigning organisations, along with young people to discuss the current state of sociological thinking on social mobility, with a particular focus on artistic and cultural occupations.

Undisciplining: From social mobility to social justice

Researching the far right: Aaron joins us to discuss the mainstream nature of far right politics in the UK and beyond. 

Special thanks to Aaron Winter, Nasar Meer and the BSA for the support and funding that made our trip to Glasgow possible!

Surviving Society

E037 Surviving Society with the BSA: Aaron Winter

The End Of Work (live)

Surviving Society Presents the T&C's Protest.
The T&C's is usually only available got our Patreon supporters:

Tissot and Chantelle join the  #FckBoris Protest and reflect on the "election" of Boris Johnson as PM

The T&C's : #FckBoris Protest (Free Bonus Episode)

Ali joined us to discuss how sociology was formally institutionalised in the West during the height of imperialism. We also break down a few of our concerns about the current decolonising moment in British universities.

Useful links -

Bhambra: post colonialism https://globalsocialtheory.org/topics/postcolonialism/

Connell: decolonising sociology: http://www.raewynconnell.net/2018/07/decolonising-sociology.html

Go: postcolonial thought and social theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RmaYRt6pM&t=4338s

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/symb.398

Surviving Society season 6

E052 Ali Meghji: Histories of sociology and decolonising education

Leighan joined us to break down the concept of matrifocality and provides some analysis from her PhD research on the representation of Caribbean families in contemporary Caribbean fiction.

Useful links:
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/leighan-m-renaud
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/beyond-the-nuclear-the-caribbean-family/
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770978

E118 Leighan Renaud: Matrifocality & Caribbean families

A political podcast exploring the local & global politics of race & class from a sociological perspective 
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