Who speaks for the Earth? The Anthropocene and Sociology
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about the idea of the Anthropocene, a concept that was originally developed within the field of Geology. Despite it not being formally rec...
13 Jan 202524min
Louis Everuss's Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss shamelessly self-promote Louis’s monograph, Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders (2024),...
19 Des 202443min
Arlie Hochschild's Sociology and Donald Trump
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss mark their 10,000th follower on Spotify by giving the people what they want, which apparently means exploring a prominent sociological account of the (perpl...
16 Okt 202441min
Ning Wang's Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss discuss what it means to be 'authentic' in the context of tourism. By examining the work of Ning Wang, they consider how authenticity in tourism research ca...
18 Sep 202440min
Anthony Giddens's Consequences of Modernity
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss do their best to have a reflexive discussion about a highly influential sociological account of the contemporary modern world: Anthony Giddens's idea of ref...
4 Sep 202422min
Karl Marx's Alienated Labour
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss launch the third season of their podcast by unpacking one of Karl Marx's most resonant and influential ideas in the field of sociology, his theory of estran...
12 Mar 202423min
The Social Model of Disability (ft. Caroline Ellison)
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss look to unpack a chapter in the Disability Studies Reader by the noted disability researcher, Tom Shakespeare. This work considers considers the strengths ...
20 Sep 202341min
Zygmunt Bauman's Wasted Lives
In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss have a discussion about Zygmunt Bauman's noted work, Wasted Lives (2003), which explores how the process of modernisation inevitably produces waste. In dis...
24 Aug 202331min
