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BielefeldANTHRO Book Podcast
The BielefeldANTHRO Book Podcast features discussions of new and classic books in anthropology with the authors who are either anthropologists based at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Sociology or our guest scholars.
Each episode offers listeners an overview of the featured book and the thought process behind it. Our goal is to highlight outstanding scholarship on real-world issues and make anthropology more accessible to a wider audience. We strive to release a new episode every two to three months.
Latest episode!
Kinship across distances: Gender, generation, and class dynamics in Chinese translocal families (UCL Press) by Zhenwei Wang
- Guest: Zhenwei Wang (Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies)
- Host: Yukun Sun (Bielefeld University)
- Release: July 2026
Zhenwei Wang´s book originated from her doctoral dissertation at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Sociology, which was awarded the annual Dissertation Prize by Universitätsgesellschaft Bielefeld (UGBi) in 2026.
👉 Listen on: Bielefeld University website (No account or subscription required!)
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All released episodes
Banking on words: The failure of language in the age of derivative finance (Chicago UP) by Arjun Appadurai
- Guest: Arjun Appadurai (New York University)
- Host: Hairuo Jin (Bielefeld University)
- Release: May 2026
👉 Listen on: Bielefeld University website (No account or subscription required!)
Also on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Deezer
Kinship across distances: Gender, generation, and class dynamics in Chinese translocal families (UCL Press) by Zhenwei Wang
- Guest: Zhenwei Wang (Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies)
- Host: Yukun Sun (Bielefeld University)
- Release: July 2026
Zhenwei Wang´s book originated from her doctoral dissertation at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Sociology, which was awarded the annual Dissertation Prize by Universitätsgesellschaft Bielefeld (UGBi) in 2026.
👉 Listen on: Bielefeld University website (No account or subscription required!)
Also on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Deezer
Upcoming episodes...
Agents of migration: Institutional embeddedness of labour brokerage in Nepal (Springer Nature) by Sandhya A.S.
- Guest: Dr. Sandhya A.S. (Bielefeld University)
- Host: Mai Chi Nguyen (Bielefeld University)
- Release: September 2026
Chinese development in late-socialist Laos: Negotiating debt and desire (Routledge) by Phill Wilcox
- Guest: Phill Wilcox (Bielefeld University)
- Host: TBA
- Release: November 2026
TBA
- Guests: Gerhard Hoffstaedter (Universiy of Queensland)
- Host: Faisal Khaled (Bielefeld University)
- Release: January 2027
Migrant labour in global factories: Care, welfare and government under market socialism in China and Vietnam (UCL Press) by Jake Lin, Minh T. N. Nguyen and Jingyu Mao
- Guests: Jake Lin (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley), Minh T. N. Nguyen (Bielefeld University) and Jingyu Mao (The University of Edinburgh)
- Host: TBA
- Release: TBA
Team
Editor: Prof. Minh Nguyen (minh.nguyen@uni-bielefeld.de)
Hosts: Members of the Sociology of Transnationalisation and Social Anthropology Department, Bielefeld University.
Producers:
- Lana Emmerling (lana.emmerling@uni-bielefeld.de)
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Nguyen Vo (nguyen.vo@uni-bielefeld.de)