Mergers and Acquisitions features specific themes – each curated by a guest editor. The podcast explores these themes with guests from multiple disciplines and geographies.

Season 1 ran in 2021-2022, beginning with Aneil Tripathy’s exploration of climate change. Cindy Isenhour and her guests focused on the economics of waste and discards. Ipshita Ghosh drew upon her work on entrepreneurship to focus on enterprise. Rounding out season 1, Kelly McKowen featured discussions about unemployment, and Jenny Huberman curated a collection on digital capitalism.

Season 2 ran in 2022-2023 beginning with “Economic Anthropology, Otherwise” curated by Tanya Matthan, focusing on how economic anthropology might be practiced in more politically relevant ways. The second collection focused on “Ethnographies of White-collar Workers in East Asia.” Xinyan Peng and her guests dove into cultures of management to explore the intersection of political economy and personal life. Sandy Smith-Nonini’s collection, “Energy Permacrisis” explored the complex factors that contribute to the current crises and the possibility of energy justice reform. Finally, William Stafford and guests explore the shape, limits and nature of the ‘economic’ as a methodological orientation in a series entitled “Exploring the ‘Economic’”.

The Society for Economic Anthropology invites proposals for season three collections and hosts. Please email a one page concept paper to Cynthia.isenhour@maine.edu by October 15th, 2023 if you are interested. No prior podcast experience is necessary.