"The trickle down uncertainties of financialization" with Arjun Appadurai (OUR005)

This episode we speak to celebrated anthropologist Arjun Appadurai about his book "Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance," as well as about the current pandemic and its links to a culture of unequal uncertainties around the world. Arjun Appadurai is Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and Professor of Anthropology and Globalization at the Hertie School in Berlin. He is an internationally recognized scholar of globalization, the cultural dimensions of economic development, and struggles over national and transnational identity. He specializes in South Asia. Appadurai is the author of numerous books and articles on migration, transnational dynamics, sovereignty and media. {please note some minor technical issues in this episode}.