In this episode, we delve deep into clutter with Jennifer Howard, author of a recent book entitled Clutter: An Untidy History. This book is for you if you have a… Read More
Jennifer Howard: Disentangling the clutter
Category: sociology
Danny Dorling on Slowdown
This week, we have a returning guest to the podcast, Oxford professor of geography Danny Dorling, who spoke to me recently about his new book Slowdown. Danny has given his… Read More
Duncan Exley: The End of Aspiration?
My guest in this programme is Duncan Exley, who in his recent book, The End of Aspiration, warns: Living standards over the coming years are predicted to stagnate for middle-income… Read More
Tim Ingold: ‘Anthropology’s subject is humanity unsliced’
‘Anthropology should be an ethical project which is dedicated to the problem of how on earth we are all going to live together in this world of ours, now and… Read More
Sten-Åke Stenberg: Born in 1953
I was in Stockholm for the first time a few weeks before Christmas, so I was intrigued when I recently came across a new book about a study that’s followed… Read More