Julia is joined by fellow anthropology graduate student Katie to talk about the alien language of “Academic English” and how it has affected their own academic careers.
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Mentioned in the Episode:
Book Club episode 076 Watching the English by Kate Fox
Book Club episode 029 This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah E. Hill PhD
Recommendations:
Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics by Stuart Kirsch
The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior by Kate Fox
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing