Professor Michaela DeSoucey [1] drops in to chat about consumer culture and the many political projects that shape our tastes for cuisine ranging from foie gras [2] to craft beer [3]. She discusses some of the challenges facing ethnographers who study taste, and we also consider how the industrial scale of modern food production may have leveled cultural practices once reserved for the wealthy.

Dr DeSoucey's forthcoming book is called Contested Tastes: The Politics of Foie Gras in the U.S. and France.

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[1] http://socant.chass.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/madesouc
[2] http://asr.sagepub.com/content/75/3/432.abstract
[3] http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/118-14.pdf
[4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH108_DeSoucey.mp3

Michaela DeSoucey on Food and Cultural Authenticity

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In this episode, guest host Amber Joy chats with Courtney Bell, a high school teacher in North Minneapolis who was a candidate for the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award. In a recent article by the Star Tribune, Bell talks about her work teaching sociology to high school students in North Minneapolis. Bell discusses how she encourages her high school students to see themselves as budding sociologists, keeps them engaged in sociological research methods, and uses lessons from sociology to build what she calls emancipatory education.

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[1] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OHTS1_Bell.mp3

Teacher Spotlight: Courtney Bell

In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers [1] about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities [2]. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards being in a relationship with only one other person at a time. Schippers argues that this compulsory disposition towards monogamy limits the ways that we can view relationships, and reproduces various kinds of inequalities.


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[1] http://www2.tulane.edu/liberal-arts/sociology/schipper-profile.cfm
[2] https://nyupress.org/books/9781479886227/
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH131_Schippers.mp3

Best of 2017: Mimi Schippers on Polyamory and Polyqueer Sexualities

In this episode, guest hosts Amber Powell and Allison Nobles talk to Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College Lisa Wade [1] about her book American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus [2]. The conversation focuses on interrogating what ‘hookup culture’ really is— and how college students make sense of themselves and their positions within (and excluded from) the culture. Using students’ self-reported experiences with sex on campus, Wade is able to narrate the complexities involved in navigating this ‘hookup culture’.

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[1] https://lisa-wade.com/
[2] http://books.wwnorton.com/books/American-Hookup/
[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH134_Wade.mp3

Best of 2017: Lisa Wade on American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus

In this episode, guest host Caty Taborda-Whitt sits down with Trevor Hoppe [1] to discuss his new book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness [2], which looks at the public health response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The conversation focuses on how this infectious disease became a target for criminalization [3] through policies and laws that punished the sick. 

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[1] http://www.trevorhoppe.com/
[2] https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291607
[3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613005947?via%3Dihub
[4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH136_Hoppe.mp3

Trevor Hoppe on Punishing Disease

In this episode, guest host Wahutu talks to Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Michael Schudson [1] about his new book The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know [2]. The conversation focuses on the history of news as well as how the public makes sense of news today. Of particular interest is the legacy of the Watergate scandal on journalism and the east coast’s position historically as a center for news production.

 
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[1] https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/michael-schudson
[2] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-news-media-9780190206192?cc=us&lang=en&
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Michaela DeSoucey on Food and Cultural Authenticity

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