Podcast appearances and mentions of carolyn rouse

In this conversation, Nikita Taniparti interviews Dr. Carolyn Rouse, who gives us a preview of her forthcoming book. Based on almost a decade of fieldwork in Lake County, CA, her book looks at an economy of care as opposed to an economy of things, and how the relations that emerge through care work are linked to life expectancy and health outcomes. Dr. Rouse explains her interlocutor's search for freedom, and the narrative threads of hope that emerge to bind a community together. Today's guest is Dr. Carolyn Rouse. She is the Ritter Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. Her work is wide-ranging and has focused on issues of race, religion, inequality, political and economic development, and more. Her first book, Engaged Surrender: African-American Women and Islam (2004), is an ethnography of African American Sunni muslim women in Los Angeles, CA – the book shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligation. Her next book, Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease (2009) provides an examination of what it means that black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans and the implications for health care in the United States. This book provides important framing to our discussion today, which is about Professor Rouse's forthcoming book on declining life expectancies of white Americans. Her book Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment, co-authored with John Jackson Jr and Marla Frederick and published in 2016, argues that African American religious media has long played a key role in humanizing perceptions of African Americans by claiming that they are endowed by God with the same gifts of goodness and reason as whites, if not more, thereby legitimizing black Americans' rights to citizenship in the United States. As a filmmaker, Prof. Rouse has also produced and directed numerous documentaries, including Chicks in White Satin (1994), Purification to Prozac: Teaching Mental Illness in Bali (1998), Listening as a Radical Act: World Anthropologies and the Decentering of Western Thought (2015), and more. She is dedicated to expanding forms of visual anthropology, a theme that we'll touch upon a bit later in this episode. Her forthcoming book builds on her decades of research on racial disparities in health and medicine, development and policy efforts, and ongoing political and economic shifts in the US. The book project began when she visited Lake Country in Northeast California in 2016 to investigate research claims being made at the time that showed that life expectancies for white Americans was declining. Today she'll talk about that ongoing research and how it is linked to the emergence of hope, trust, and community. Links: https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/carolyn-rouse https://www.epicpeople.org/racist-by-design/ .player4979 .plyr__controls, .player4979 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: px; overflow: hidden; } .player4979{ margin: 0 auto; } .player4979 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player4979 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element.

Is believing in free speech a little like believing in Santa Claus? Carolyn Rouse, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University explains the historical, cultural, and contextual nature of speech, better ways to think about trigger warnings, and teaching students the patient art of critical thinking. Rouse is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. Her work explores evidence-based approaches to race and social inequality.

In this week's episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the viral New Yorker short story “Cat Person”, the disproportionately high maternal death rate among black women, and the Elf on the Shelf phenomenon. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker short story “Cat Person” went surprisingly viral last week. Natalia cited Laura Kipnis’ Unwanted Advances to dissuade readers from equating bad and coercive sex. Natalia cited Jennifer Weiner’s New York Times op-ed about the snobbery often directed at her career writing “chick lit.” Neil recommended Roupenian’s interview with Deborah Treisman. ProPublica published a damning article highlighting the many reasons black women die in pregnancy and childbirth. Neil recommended anthropologist Carolyn Rouse’s book Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease, and Natalia recommended Alondra Nelson’s Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination and Susan Reverby’s Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy. We discussed the newest Christmas tradition – the now decade-plus old Elf on the Shelf. In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History: Neil discussed the history of the claw foot tub. Natalia commented on the new PBS documentary, Pervert Park. Niki shared The Cut article, “The Life and Death of a Radical Sisterhood.”

Anthropology professor Carolyn Rouse discusses her research trip to interview Donald Trump supporters in rural California, her “Trumplandia” project, the reasons why she hasn’t watched cable TV news this year, and how listening can be “a radical act.”

In Episode 6 of Anthropological Airwaves, we interview Carolyn Rouse and Brent Luvaas about their multi-modal research into various projects of self-making and becoming in religious and fashion media. Credits Interviewers: Tali Ziv and Kyle Olson Music "How sampling transformed music" by Mark Ronson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3TF-hI7zKc&t=765s) "Matte Kudasai" by King Crimson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLarI5H1E5g) "Representation & the media: Featuring Stuart Hall" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY) "How to translate the feeling into sound" by Claudio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5yxIzs5Wug) Montages "Tbilisi Fashion Week" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAu4Ueu-icU) "Photo Blogger Yvan Rodic on Fashion" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMNawMHWRfo) For a full transcript of the episode, please follow this link: http://www.americananthropologist.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Season-1-Episode-6-Media-Projects-of-Becoming-in-Religion-and-Fashion.pdf

We’re slowly recovering from the last few weeks. It must have something to do with the eclipse. Matt’s family is travelling so that means he can eat, sleep and podcast. Phil is back from a short trip to Montreal that involved a grilled cheese. Before getting on with our 25th episode, we send out some special messages and get into our podcasting friends’ top 5 baseball movie list. Public Scholarship & Engaged Research (13:13) We trace the concept of public sociology, or public scholarship at large, by assessing the ongoing relevance of Michael Burawoy’s call to action during his 2004 American Sociological Association (ASA) Presidential address. From his typology of practices, to his insistence that public scholarship requires a particular political standpoint, we review and critique some of Burawoy’s 11 theses. Is his call to sharpen the axe still relevant today? Which public or publics are included/excluded, and what role do researchers play at defining those boundaries? Can something like Nancy Fraser’s concept of counterpublic help the program of public scholarship reconcile its different audiences? We also consider a few of the potential tensions social media brings to public scholarship, offering our thoughts on the delicate balancing act that online forums and communities can entail.  Suggested Reading: Michael Burawoy ‘For Public Sociology’: http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/Public%20Sociology,%20Live/Burawoy.pdf Rob Borofsky ‘Why A Public Anthropology’: http://www.publicanthropology.org/WaPA/chapter1.pdf Charles R. Tittle ‘The Arrogance of Public Sociology’: http://burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Social%20Forces/Tittle.pdf Peggy Reeves Sanday ‘Public Interest Anthropology’: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/psanday/public-interest-anthropology/public-interest-anthropology-opening-statement/ Carolyn Rouse, Rena Lederman & John Borneman ‘Engaged Anthropology: The Ethics and Politics of Collaborations in the Field’: https://www.princeton.edu/international/doc/Rouse_GCN-Engaged-Anthropolgy-PR.pdf On Bill C-16: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/first-reading ‘The Revolution Will Not be Funded’ (INCITE, 2004): http://www.incite-national.org/page/revolution-will-not-be-funded-anthology Public Action Research consulting firm: http://publicactionresearch.com/index.html Recommendations (1:29:57) Matt recommends two podcasts: Politically Re-Active & PRI’s The World to help consume the political tensions of the day, as well as a few beers from the Quebec based brewery Unibroue to help digest those White House stories.   Phil recommends two podcasts: Oh No! Lit Class, which is probably more addictive than any street drug; a new podcast from a fellow Canadian called Salty Canadian that offers rants, reviews and stories.  Concluding thought:  At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice - Gore Vidal   Follow #PodernFamily, #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen more. Listen Indie. Want to join the “IMDB for podcasts”? Find new shows, rate the shows you love and do what the cool kids do. Use promo code SIMPOD for your exclusive beta account at podchaser.com today. For news & beta updates: @Podchaser -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/