CWGI #14: The ethnographer as construction worker (with Leif)

Episode 15 of the Cursed With Good Ideas podcast, hosted by CWGI, titled "CWGI #14: The ethnographer as construction worker (with Leif)" was published on January 20, 2021 and runs 77 minutes.

January 20, 2021 ·77m · Cursed With Good Ideas

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Summary

The fourteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-seven minutes of urban fieldwork reminiscences with Asa Roast, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Leif, and Patrick Harrison. In this episode: black pollution, construction work masculinities, urban ethnography and anxious wealth. Audio artifacts and bitcrushing sponsored by Zoom compression algorithms. LINKS: - Overhead cable removal in Shanghai: http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/23023/are-overhead-cables-in-shanghai-about-to-become-a-thing-of-the-past - John Osburg's "Anxious Wealth": https://www.perlego.com/book/744833/anxious-wealth-money-and-morality-among-chinas-new-rich-pdf - Sarah Swider's "Building China": https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801456930/building-china - Leif's "Bordering Shanghai": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718515302311 Support CWGI: https://en.liberapay.com/CWGI/

Episode Description

The fourteenth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, seventy-seven minutes of urban fieldwork reminiscences with Asa Roast, Dino Chang, Gabriele de Seta, Leif, and Patrick Harrison.

In this episode: black pollution, construction work masculinities, urban ethnography and anxious wealth.

Audio artifacts and bitcrushing sponsored by Zoom compression algorithms.

LINKS:

- Overhead cable removal in Shanghai: http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/23023/are-overhead-cables-in-shanghai-about-to-become-a-thing-of-the-past

- John Osburg's "Anxious Wealth": https://www.perlego.com/book/744833/anxious-wealth-money-and-morality-among-chinas-new-rich-pdf

- Sarah Swider's "Building China": https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801456930/building-china

- Leif's "Bordering Shanghai": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718515302311

Support CWGI: https://en.liberapay.com/CWGI/