Talk On — Debates in Anthropology

By: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  • Summary

  • “Talk On!” is a monthly podcast of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. In each episode of this podcast, one of our two hosts, Christoph Brumann or Jovan Maud, talks to the guest about their publications, research, and current debates in the field of social anthropology.
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Episodes
  • Everyday economics of debt w/ Marek Mikuš
    Nov 7 2024

    In this episode of Talk On, host Jovan Maud talks to his guest Marek Mikuš about a topic concerning (almost) everyone: Debt and how people understand, manage, and live with it. They discuss Marek Mikuš's work in the Emmy Noether Group "Peripheral Debt", his research in the field, and how his forthcoming article "Tracking mortgage pathways in Zaghreb: Everyday economics of debt, housing wealth and debtors agency in a European semi-periphery" came to be. In this article, Marek sheds some light on the financial peculiarities of housing mortgages and how these peculiarities, i.e. the pegging of the mortgage to the Swiss currency instead of the Croatian, can work against debtors and their dream of home ownership. The two talk about debtors' movements, political and legal battles, and a Croatian couple struggling to pay their soaring principles but persisting, even against the hurdles built up by creditors.

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    33 mins
  • Migrants and Masculinity w/ Mario Schmidt
    Oct 3 2024

    In this episode, Christoph Brumann talks to Mario Schmidt about his research that led to his book 'Migrants and masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: the pressure of being a man in an African city'. Among other things, they talk about how many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. They also talk about the pressure these men feel to succeed, the pressure that comes from romantic partners, spouses, relatives in the country, and children. Because of this pressure, they create homosocial spaces in which they participate, where a sense of brotherhood arises and their sense of pressure is alleviated. They also describe how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood. The book is available for open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86009

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    36 mins
  • Frontiers of Belonging w/ Annika Lems
    Sep 5 2024

    In this episode, Jovan Maud talks to Annika Lems about her book "Frontiers of Belonging. The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth" published by Indiana University Press. During the conversation, they address the specifics of Swiss integration policy. Which is comparable to the refugee policies of many other European countries. But how well does this system work?

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    29 mins

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