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Down The Research Rabbit Hole

Down The Research Rabbit Hole

By Abha Awasthi

Academic research is gruelling to read through, but strangely binge-worthy once you get into the meat of it. Hence this podcast, which features social scientists on their work. Catch us on Twitter or Instagram at the handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.
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Romance in Mumbai's Slum Areas ft Juhi Sidharth

Down The Research Rabbit HoleJun 22, 2021

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Christianity, Democracy & Trump ft. Philip Gorski
Feb 14, 202249:21
Play, Fitness & Ageing ft. Jason Pagaduan

Play, Fitness & Ageing ft. Jason Pagaduan

Jason Pagaduan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include race and ageing.

In this episode, we discuss his dissertation topic Mall Walking: Community, Pleasure, and Self-Preservation Among Racialized Older Adults.

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.

Jan 30, 202246:15
Interclass Downward Mobility ft. Jessi Streib
Jan 23, 202242:55
Creativity, Cognition and Music ft. Taylor Price

Creativity, Cognition and Music ft. Taylor Price

Taylor Price is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s department of sociology. His key areas of expertise include cultural sociology, sociological theory, quantitative research methods. You can find out more about Taylor's work on his website.

In this episode, we discuss his PhD dissertation which looks at changes in the music production process with time, the role of technology, and what easier and widespread access to music has done for musicians and listeners. 

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Jan 17, 202242:25
Status Hierarchies ft. Fabien Accominotti
Jan 09, 202246:31
Siblings and Educational Advantage ft. Christian Smith
Jan 03, 202251:47
Pune's Smart City Mission ft. Poonam Gandhi

Pune's Smart City Mission ft. Poonam Gandhi

Poonam Gandhi is a sociologist and professor at FLAME University’s Department of Sociology. Her areas of research interest include art and culture, gender and human relations. You can find out more about Poonam on FLAME University's faculty page.

In this episode, we discuss her co-authored publication Museums and Heritage Sites — The Missing Link in Smart City Planning: A Case Study of Pune City, India.

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.

Dec 28, 202151:54
Chinatown ft. Min Zhou
Dec 23, 202143:31
Jamaica's Diasporic Real Estate Market ft. James Braun

Jamaica's Diasporic Real Estate Market ft. James Braun

James Braun is an economic sociologist and lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Department of Sociology. His areas of research interest include financialization, the sociology of markets and diaspora-making. You can find his publications on his academia.edu page or catch him on the Twitter handle @jbrauneconsoc.

In this episode, we discuss his PhD thesis Local Culture and the Problem of Coordination: The Case of Jamaica’s Diasporic Real Estate Market.

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Dec 19, 202156:30
Experts and Expertise ft. Gil Eyal
Dec 15, 202154:41
Adverse Childhood Experiences ft. Jose Eos Trinidad
Nov 16, 202149:27
The Funny Thing About Humour ft. Adam Valen Levinson
Nov 07, 202101:05:10
Patchwork Cities ft. Marco Garrido

Patchwork Cities ft. Marco Garrido

Marco Garrido is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. His work broadly looks at the relationship between the urban poor and middle class in Manila, and particularly how it shapes politics, urban spaces and social life. His work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Qualitative Sociology, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

His book The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are connected and thus helps us make similar connections in other cases. It shows class as a social structure to be as indispensable to the study of Manila—and of many other cities of the Global South—as race is to the study of American cities, which is what we discuss in this episode. 

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Nov 05, 202150:21
Policing and State Violence ft. Kimberly Burke

Policing and State Violence ft. Kimberly Burke

Kimberly Burke is a PhD student in Sociology from UC Berkeley (anticipated graduation 2023). She holds MA and BA degrees in women's studies from San Diego State University and Duke University respectively and has worked at UCLA's Centre for Police Equity (CPE) for four years. Her areas of research interest include Policing, State Violence, Inequality, Criminal Justice, Feminist Theory. 

On this episode, we discuss her research on police brutality and the lived realities of policing. 

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Nov 01, 202144:39
Ambulance Crews ft. Josh Seim
Oct 23, 202150:01
High School Debates, Cultural Capital and Snacks ft. Karlyn Gorski

High School Debates, Cultural Capital and Snacks ft. Karlyn Gorski

Karlyn Gorski is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) at the University of Chicago's sociology department. Her research focuses on high school students in and around Chicago, and she is especially interested in youths' strategies for navigating the structures of schooling. You can find out more about Karlyn's work on her Linkedin profile

In this episode, we discuss her publication titled My Voice Matters: High School Debaters’ Acquisition of Dominant and Adaptive Cultural Capital, and briefly touch upon her recent research on the curbing of snack-selling at schools. 

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Oct 17, 202152:09
Assamese Mobile Theatre ft. Rituparna Patgiri

Assamese Mobile Theatre ft. Rituparna Patgiri

Dr. Rituparna Patgiri teaches Sociology at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and holds a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology, an independent, women-led academic blog dedicated to promoting sociological content. Her areas of research interest include food, gender, culture, media, and the public. You can take a look at Rituparna's publications on her Google Scholar page, and follow her on the Twitter handle @Rituparna37.

On this episode, we discuss her dissertation on the art of mobile theatre in the Indian state of Assam.

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Oct 11, 202144:14
Britain's Indian Diaspora ft. Divya Balan
Oct 08, 202157:18
Queer Cruising and Surveillance ft. Kyle Shupe
Sep 28, 202146:50
Militarisation of Kashmir ft. Niharika Pandit

Militarisation of Kashmir ft. Niharika Pandit

Niharika Pandit is a PhD candidate at the Department of Gender Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). She holds an MA in Gender Studies as a Felix Scholar from SOAS, University of London and a bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Journalism from Sophia College, Mumbai. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, sexuality, anti-colonial and anti-militarist feminist thought, and the politics of representation.

On this episode, we discuss her PhD on everyday politics and practices of living under military occupation in the Kashmir valley. As a feminist researcher, she uses feminist, anti-colonial thought and transnational feminist epistemologies to ground her ethnographic research work.

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Sep 24, 202150:57
Manifestations of Religious Authority ft. Jeffrey Guhin

Manifestations of Religious Authority ft. Jeffrey Guhin

Jeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of Sociology at UCLA. He holds an MA and MPhil degrees in Sociology from Yale University, and his research interests include education, culture, religion, and theory. You can find out more about Jeffrey's work on his website.

On this episode, we discuss his first book, Agents of God: Boundaries of Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Sep 20, 202145:25
Mental Illness and Involuntary Treatment ft. Alex Barnard
Sep 17, 202145:17
Gender and Migration ft. Marion Lieutaud
Sep 14, 202143:58
College Majors and Gender ft. Esha Chatterjee
Sep 10, 202139:54
Gender and Cinema ft. Bindu Menon
Sep 07, 202141:60
Drug Policy ft. Michael Rosino
Sep 02, 202159:41
Disability and Sexuality ft. Alan Martino
Aug 29, 202150:15
Inclusive Education ft. Ankur Madan

Inclusive Education ft. Ankur Madan

Ankur Madan is an associate professor at Azim Premji University's School of Education, where she teaches the MA in Education program. Her primary research interests include Disability Studies and Creative Education. On our twentieth episode, we discuss the scope and nature of inclusive education in India. 

Catch us on Twitter or Instagram at @dtrrhpodcast for updates. 

Aug 26, 202150:29
Conflicted Religionists ft. Sean Bock
Aug 23, 202101:06:05
Rap and Crime ft. Charis Kubrin
Aug 19, 202152:31
Educational Inequality in the USA ft. Daphne M. Penn
Aug 15, 202141:24
Robots, Artificial Intelligence and Desire ft. Rebecca Gibson
Aug 11, 202147:21
American Society Over Time ft. Claude Fischer
Aug 04, 202149:12
Gay on God's Campus ft. Jonathan Coley
Aug 01, 202147:15
Branding Consultants, Marketing and Emotions ft. Nicolás Arenas
Jul 28, 202152:03
Tulip Queens ft. Michael O. Johnston
Jul 24, 202143:37
Same Sex Parenthood ft. Jose Aveldanes
Jul 22, 202154:21
Constructing Sociological Knowledge ft. Shai Dromi
Jul 18, 202142:39
Obstetric Violence ft. Surbhi Shrivastava
Jul 15, 202101:01:01
Comics and Trauma ft. Harriet Earle
Jul 05, 202152:23
Gender in Space Analog Settings ft. Inga Popovaite
Jul 02, 202146:26
Ageing of Older Indians ft. Jagriti Gangopadhyay

Ageing of Older Indians ft. Jagriti Gangopadhyay

Dr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay is an assistant professor and the faculty coordinator at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). She holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, and has had her research published in journals including the Adoption Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Springer, Sage, and Ageing International and Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, among others. Her research interests include social gerontology, family sociology and medical sociology.

In this episode, we discuss her publication: Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond

Catch us on Twitter at the handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 

Jun 25, 202134:19
Romance in Mumbai's Slum Areas ft Juhi Sidharth

Romance in Mumbai's Slum Areas ft Juhi Sidharth

Dr. Juhi Sidharth an assistant professor of public policy and gender studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She has engaged with the subject of gender and sexuality in her academic and professional life for the past ten years, and her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK investigates the lived experiences of sexuality of young women from the slums of Mumbai. Her broad research interests cover gender, sexuality and relationships education, intersectionality, modernity, identity and development.

In this episode, we discuss her PhD dissertation, concerning how Mumbai's young slum-dwelling girls navigate dating, intimacy and romance. 

Catch us on Twitter at the handle @DTRRHpodcast for further updates. 

Jun 22, 202138:39
The 1971 Bangladesh War and Climate Refugees ft. Chaitanya Ravi
Jun 19, 202152:47
Cognizing Homelessness ft. Anup Tripathi
Jun 14, 202147:18
Solo at Midlife ft. Tannistha Samanta
Jun 13, 202144:04