Therapy Speak, with Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
In Buenos Aires, psychoanalysis has “left the clinic”. Far from being for the elite alone, its core concepts and ideas abound in TV shows, the analyses offered by taxi drivers schooled in Lacan, and i...
24 Jul 46min
Fanon, with Julian Go
Frantz Fanon, the radical psychiatrist and anti-colonial philosopher, was not a sociologist but has shaped so much critical sociological thought. Julian Go, Professor of Sociology, joins us to reflect...
26 Jun 45min
China, with Jieyu Liu
What does family life really look like in Contemporary China? What has changed through the generations since the Communist Revolution of 1949? And what persists? Jieyu Liu, Professor of Sociology at S...
22 Mai 38min
Endings, with Patricia Kingori
Who gets to decide when something is over? How is declaring so an act of power? Professor of Global Health Ethics, Patricia Kingori, joins to discuss these questions and many more raised by the interd...
24 Apr 41min
Being Seen, with Shahram Khosravi
**Note: this episode was recorded in late 2025, prior to the extremely violent suppression of protests in Iran, and prior to the strikes by the US and Israel that began in late February 2026** “Being ...
20 Mar 44min
Gifts, with Sophie Woodward
Why do we keep gifts that we don’t want, or can’t currently use? What role do these play in our relationships with others, with time, and perhaps even our future selves? Sophie Woodward discusses the ...
23 Jan 44min
Inheritance, with Delwar Hussain
“What is the effect of receiving something from someone who is not your biological kin?” Anthropologist Delwar Hussain introduces his new project on Queer Inheritance, born when a friend welcomed Delw...
19 Des 202539min
Maternal, with Babalwa Magoqwana
How have maternal - and grandmaternal - ways of knowing been sidelined and undervalued? What role has sociology’s focus on its ‘founding fathers’ played? And what’s the cost, in South Africa and beyon...
21 Nov 202545min
