Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast
Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast
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Interviews with authors of UC Press books.
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The podcast revolves around themes of academia, cultural studies, and social issues, providing insights into book topics such as genetic bias, the impact of immigration on the restaurant industry, experimental poetry in Japan, the history of alcohol in America, and the intersections of gender and Islamic law. For instance, past episodes have explored how Chinese immigrants have reshaped the U.S. restaurant scene and the complexities of aging in urban environments.
Interviews with authors of UC Press books.
Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (UC Press, 2023) introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes scholars of media, literature, education, law, language, and sound to theorize accent as an object of inquiry, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice. Accent does more than just denote identity: from algorithmic bias and corporate pedagogy to migratory poetics and the politics of comparison, accent mediates global economies of discrimination and desire. Accents happen between bodies and media. They negotiate power and invite attunement. These essays invite the reader to think with an accent—to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.
Thinking with an Accent won the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2024 Rene Wellek Prize for Best Edited Collection.
Editors: Pooja Rangan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Akshya Saxena, and Pavitra Sundar
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