Hosted by Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 9 episodes
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Welcome to the “Common Concerns” podcast. Here, Xiang Biao and his guests aim to transform social theory into a tool that empowers people to think for themselves.The researchers do not aim to provide listeners with universal answers. Rather, they seek to help them gain clearer insight into their own questions. In a world where many people feel increasingly alienated from the systems that shape their lives, they create a space where academic concepts meet lived experience and researchers reflect together with their conversation partners.Biao believes that social research has been trapped in a “small loop” for far too long. The small loop represents a closed circle of academic debates that rarely touches on the real questions that actually concern people. That is why Biao and his guests strive to step out of this small loop and enter the “big loop”—a chaotic, vibrant, sometimes uncomfortable space where ideas are tested, questioned, and transformed through interaction with the real wor
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology hosts Common Concerns, a science show with 9 episodes published.
In this episode, Biao Xiang and researcher Siqi Tu speak about her ethnographic work on transnational education. Specifically, the phenomenon of affluent Chinese families sending their children to American private high s
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In this episode, Xiang Biao, Andrew Haxby, and Xenia Cherkaev examine "suspicion" as a Common Concern in Nepal's land market, where people are deeply suspicious of brokers who facilitate land transactions, even though th
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In this episode, Xiang Biao talks to Olaf Zenker, a leading anthropologist whose work spans Southern Africa, Germany, and Northern Ireland. Together, they explore one of the most urgent questions of our time: What happen
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In this episode, Biao Xiang interviews two extraordinary thinkers: Don Kalb, whose new book "Value and Worthlessness" has been hailed as a landmark in Marxist anthropology, and Xenia Cherkaev, a scholar whose work bridge
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In this episode, Xiang Biao, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, interviews Insa Koch, Professor of British Culture at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her work focuses on corruptio
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In this episode, Xiang Biao, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, speaks with Ferda Nur Demirci about her research on the indebtedness of miners in Soma, Turkey. Her findings reveal something
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In the first episode of the “Common Concern” podcast, Siqi Tu and Sohail Jagat speak with Xiang Biao, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Looking back on his experiences and academic career i
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In this episode, Xiang Biao sits down with Zhipeng Duan, a design researcher-turned-anthropologist, to dismantle the idea that powerlessness is a lack of power. Isn't it rather a blindness to the world’s hidden possibili
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In this episode, Xiang Biao (Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) interviews Dr. Alf Gerlach, a senior psychoanalyst whose decades-long work bridges German psychoanalysis, Chinese social practice, and
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Common Concerns is hosted by Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. The show is categorised under science (social) and has published 9 episodes.
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