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Daily Easy Spanish”Fui a conocer a la gente que no piensa como yo”: el antropólogo que recorrió EE.UU. para entender las profundas grietas del paísAnand Pandian estuvo ocho años recorriendo Estados Unidos para entender cómo funcionan los muros que dividen a las distintas comunidades que habitan su país y cómo derribarlos.2025-07-0933 min
Keen On AmericaBreaking Down America's Everyday Walls: From Swimming Pools and SUVs to White Lives Matter RalliesFrom suburban swimming pools and SUVs to White Lives Matter rallies, the Johns Hopkins anthropologist Anand Pandian has been exploring the everyday walls of American life. In his new book, Something Between Us, Pandian travels across the United States in his search to both climb and overcome these walls. What he finds is a nation tragically at war with itself. Through intimate portraits of communities divided by race, class, and ideology, Pandian reveals how ordinary public spaces have become literal battlegrounds for identity and belonging. From gated suburban neighborhoods in Florida to online echo chambers...2025-07-0945 min
The ExcerptCan shared public spaces bridge the American divide?Walls. We all navigate them whether they be the walls throughout our homes, neighborhoods, and the places we choose to frequent, or the internal walls that allow us to maintain our distance from others. To what extent is divisiveness baked into our infrastructure, politic, and psyche? Anand Pandian, Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, joins USA TODAY’s The Excerpt to discuss his new book “Something Between Us.” In it, he explores the walls that divide us as a nation. Let us know what you think of this episode by sending an email to podcasts@usatoday.com.2025-07-0213 min
Uncomfy: Sticking with Moments That Challenge UsThe Walls Between Us: Can We Truly Understand Each Other? – Anand PandianWhy do we build walls—emotional, social, ideological—and what would it take to break them down? In this thought-provoking episode of Uncomfy, anthropologist Anand Pandian joins host Julie Rose to explore the infrastructure of discomfort in America.
Drawing from his new book, “Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down,” Pandian recounts stories from his journey across America, including attending a Trump victory rally as a liberal, or choosing to reconnect with a conservative childhood friend. These experiences reveal how fear and familiarity shape our comfort zones and what happens when we choose t...2025-06-2521 min
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastHow the US got so dividedAn anthropologist set out to talk to his fellow Americans, to try and understand why so many fear people who are different to them. Guest: Anand Pandian, author of ‘Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down’ (Stanford University Press) Producers: Ann Arnold and Jack Schmidt2025-06-0526 min
New Books in American StudiesChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-05-0836 min
New Books in Economic and Business HistoryChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-05-0636 min
New Books in SociologyChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-05-0436 min
The University of Chicago Press PodcastChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-04-3036 min
New Books in Urban StudiesChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-04-3036 min
New Books in AnthropologyChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-04-3036 min
New Books in Environmental StudiesChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-04-3036 min
New Books In Public HealthChloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors....2025-04-3036 min
Academics WriteAnand PandianAnand Pandian talks about doing justice to what we write about, experimental modes of writing in ethnography, and how what we write about affects how we write.
2023-03-2732 min
Ethnographic Imagination BaselOn Possibility–with Anand PandianIn this episode, On Possibility, our guest Anand Pandian joins us virtually from Baltimore. Pandian's book, A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (published in 2019) explores the possible in relation to knowledge, politics, and experience, but also—specifically—in relation to mundane acts of reading, writing, teaching, and researching.
Guest: Anand Pandian is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to A Possible Anthropology, the book around which our conversation will focus today, he is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India (2009); Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope i...2023-02-1332 min
Vir Vulnerabilis VirDeep Dive with Anand PandianIn this episode, Adam and Albert talk with Anand Pandian about his life and experience in the field of anthropology. We discuss his recent article in the Guardian called: Look around you. The way we live explains why we are increasingly polarized; along with some of his previous work. Join us in an stimulating chat about vulnerability, fear, and the society we live in.Be sure to follow us on Instagram at @virvulnerabilisvir @denimmindset @upstateguystyle @plastiphile2022-02-161h 00
Talking CultureA Possible AnthropologyIn order to open Talking Culture's second season under the theme "possibility", Alejandra talks with Dr. Anand Pandian, author of A Possible Anthropology. They discuss the idea of getting lost in our ideas, reading, actions, and spaces as anthropologists and what that means or holds for the future of the discipline. They also dive into the struggles of trying to get lost and be imaginative in times of crisis, and even touch on the possibilities of podcasting itself! 2021-09-231h 06
Allegra LabA Possible Anthropology with Anand PandianAnand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests Penelope Papailias and Laura Kunreuther send in their questions, generated from an 'experimental humanities' reading group they were both part of this last summer.
Music credit: The Barren Sea
Audio co-editing: Laura Isabel de los Reyes Walker-Beaven
Anand Pandian's university home page: https://anthropology.jhu.edu/directory/anand-pandian/
A Possible Anthropology: https://www.dukeupress.edu/a-possible-anthropology
Listen to Anand speak to Ian about Reel World here:
https://allegralaboratory.net/podcast-interview-round-up-may-august-new-books-in-anthropology/
Penelope Papailias: http://ha.uth.gr/index...2020-12-101h 03
Polis Project Conversation Series5 Objects Podcast | Conversation with Dr. Anand PandianFor each episode of 5 Objects, we ask a guest to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and work. These can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices of objects have ranged from books by Edward Said, Steve Biko, and Assata Shakur, music from Notorious BIG, art by Ermias Ekube, the radio, and becoming a refugee after the Somali war. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s life, their personal, political, and intellectual journeys and histories.
For this episode, Suchitr...2020-12-091h 02
Research Bytes PodcastProf. Anand Pandian & Prof. Kaushik Basu - Infosys Prize - Episode 157In this episode, host Spoorthy Raman talks about Anthropology with Prof. Anand Pandian - Infosys Prize 2019 winner & Prof. Kaushik Basu, Jury, Infosys Prize. Music and Editing - Ramya Badrinath Additional Music - www.bensound.in Subscribe at researchmatters.substack.com2020-01-1039 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #20: Rosalind Fredericks and Anand PandianIt's time for some reports from 'the field', thanks to a recent trip by Tim to the east coast of the USA. In this episode we have two conversations, the first with Rosalind Fredericks (NYU) and the second with Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins).
Rosalind is Associate Professor of Geography and Development Studies at New York University. Her research and teaching interests are centered on development, urbanism, and political ecology in Africa. In this episode, she discusses her new book 'Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal,' published recently by Duke University Press, as well as new research...2019-05-081h 07
Cultures of Energy125 - Displacements Recap (w. Anand Pandian, Andrea Muehlebach & Marcel LaFlamme)This week’s podcast is devoted to discussing a prototype for making academic conferences less carbon intensive and more accessible to our colleagues outside the global North. Case in point is last month’s remarkably successful Displacements conference (https://displacements.jhu.edu) organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology which broke all previous SCA records for contributions and participation because of its unique hybrid format of online screenings and in person gatherings at fifty sites across the world. Gathered together (13:18) to discuss how it all went down and what it meant are chief conference organizer Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins), oper...2018-05-111h 16
New Books in FilmAnand Pandian, “Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation” (Duke UP, 2015)Do we live in a real world or a ‘reel world,’ in which life begins to feel like a film? In this wonderful ethnography of the Tamil film industry, Anand Pandian explores topics as grand, rich and timeless as those explored in film itself love, desire, rhythm, wonder as a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film2016-06-2648 min