Brokenness and Repair Podcast

Aylwyn is author of Prison Cultures, based on her work using ethnographic and performance-based methods with incarcerated women. Jason's research at the lives of older Japanese men after prison, which he described in his book Unsettled Futures.

Hannah Gould, Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at University of Melbourne and Beverley Clack, Professor Emerita in the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University. Hannah’s research focuses on changing rituals and sentiments around death and the afterlife, particularly among Buddhists in contemporary Japan. Beverley is author of How to be a Failure and Still Live Well:...

Iza Kavedžija, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Cambridge and Katie Taylor, Artist and founder of Shifting States. Iza has conducted fieldwork on health, wellbeing, creativity and happiness with older adults and contemporary artists in urban Japan. Katie’s sculptural and installation works address questions of ‘grievability’ for the unidentified dead in sites of mass deat...

Caitlin DeSilvey, Professor of Geography, University of Exeter and Dan O'Brien, Professor of Philosophy, Oxford Brookes University. Caitlin has collaborated with artists, archaeologists, environmental scientists and heritage practitioners on numerous projects, and authored the award-winning Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving. When Dan is not painting abstract landscapes, he writes and teaches o...

A conversation between Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology at Emory University, and Alistair Ross, Associate Professor of Psychotherapy, Department for Continuing Education, Kellogg College, Oxford. Chikako is an expert on religion, psychotherapy, and empathy, and an award-winning author of The Anatomy of Loneliness. Alistair’s career bridges his training as both...

A conversation between Rob Simpkins, Social Anthropologist of Japan, and Dinah Roe, Associate Professor of 19th Century English Literature at Oxford Brookes University. Rob’s research interests focus upon the intersection of sound, space, creativity, and the production of self. Dinah is author if The Pre-Raphaelites: from Rossetti to Ruskin, and leads poetry workshops with carers in collaboration...