Episode 123: Josh Babcock, Department of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, Brown University
In this episode, host Francine Barchett pairs up with Shreya Chitnavis, a 2024 Cornell MPH graduate, to interview Dr. Joshua Babcock, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and affiliate faculty in Linguistics and Science & Technology Studies at Brown University. Dr. Babcock talks about the limitations of Singapore's racial and linguistic classifications. Reflecting on his findings, he presents a fiction of multi-racial multilingualism as Singapore's national identity. In Dr. Babcock's words, "racial community gets performed, policed, and blocked through everyday activity." And dare we say –…
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