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Under The Table: An Anthropology of Corruption Podcast
We are two cultural anthropologists, Drs. Aaron Ansell and Sylvia Tidey, who write about corruption and the fight against corruption in non-Western cultural settings. Our lighthearted podcast consists of interviews with fellow experts on this topic. We try to keep it jargon-free, but we do geek out every now and then, so fair warning.
Episodes
10 episodes
Audit Culture and Dirty Elites: A Talk with Cris Shore (9/10/2024)
Sylvia and Aaron chat with Cris Shore (Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths) about his work on corruption in the European Union. We talk about the EU's "parallel system of administration," methodologies for studying that which s...
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"Transparency and Anti-Corruption in India, a chat with Anu (Aradhana) Sharma" (1/19/2024)
Sylvia and Aaron chat with Anu Sharma about her work on corruption and good governance in India, including that country's "Right to Know" movement and related Transparency of Information legislation. We discuss the relationship between anti-cor...
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Alan Smart on Corruption and Informality in Hong Kong (11/1/23)
Sylvia and Aaron interview Alan Smart about his research on Chinese practices of gift-mediated friendship (guanxi) and the role of guanxi relations in capitalist ventures. Guanxi is increasingly viewed as ...
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Ponzi Schemes in Post-Socialist Albania, a chat with Smoki Musaraj (7/23/2023)
Sylvia and Aaron chat with Dr. Smoki Musaraj about her book,
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Bribes, Foxes, and Moral Legitimacy-- a talk with Italo Pardo
Aaron and Sylvia talk with Italo Pardo about the importance of empirically-grounded anthropological studies of corruption. As one of the earliest anthropologists committed to the explicit study of corruption, Italo draws on...
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The Outrageous Comparisons of Michael Herzfeld
Sylvia and Aaron interview Professor Michael Herzfeld about his latest book, Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage. Durham: Duke Un...
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1:10:10
Getting Our Goat with Kregg Hetherington (9/16/2022)
Sylvia and Aaron talk to Kregg about soy bean cultivation in Paraguay and the role of corruption and anti-corruption measures in rural land struggles. We discuss the encroachment of mechanized soy production into subsistence f...
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Ethics or the Right Thing? Aaron Interviews Sylvia Tidey on her new book (08/19/2022)
Sylvia and I discuss her book, Ethics or the Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance University of Chicago Press, ...
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Nigeria's 419: an Interview with Daniel Jordan Smith (3/18/22)
In the second episode of the podcast series, we interview Dr. Daniel Jordan Smith, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University as well as the Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. Professor ofInternational Studies. Dan is the author of a landmark e...
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The Left Hand of Sarah Muir: Corruption and Crisis in Argentina (10/14/2021)
In our inaugural episode, we talk with Dr. Sarah Muir of the The City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Sarah is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist specializing in Argentina and a long-...
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