Best Kat Benson Podcasts (2024)

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Ready to Hit PRs? Here’s Your Game Plan 40:46

24d ago40:46

40:46

In this episode of the Plates & PRs Podcast, we're all about breaking barriers and setting new benchmarks in your functional fitness journey. We'll guide you through the essentials of goal-setting, mental preparation, and practical training tips to help you achieve those PRs. Tune in and let's conquer those goals together! Nutrition Coaching: Plate…

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Community, with Kirsteen Paton 45:43

2M ago45:43

45:43

What’s meant – and who’s excluded – when community is invoked? Does membership take more than presence alone? How can seeing local crises through a global lens enrich our understanding? Kirsteen Paton joins Uncommon Sense to discuss community, class, resistance, solidarity and more – including her experience of community in the UK cities of Liverpo…

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Fueling PRs: Macronutrients, Hydration, and Meal Timing 42:26

3M ago42:26

42:26

In this episode of the Plates & PRs Podcast, we dive into the fundamentals of nutrition that are essential for achieving peak performance in functional fitness. Join us as we explore the crucial role of macronutrients, the importance of hydration, and the timing of meals around your workouts. Tune in and take the first step towards those PRs! Nutri…

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Coffee Culture, with Grazia Ting Deng 44:50

3M ago44:50

44:50

Think you know “coffee culture”? Anthropologist Grazia Ting Deng discusses her research into the “paradox of Chinese Espresso” – or why and how coffee bars in Italy, seen as such distinctively “Italian” spaces, became increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since 2008. Grazia tells Rosie and guest host Amit Singh – who highlights the overlap with …

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Interview w/ CrossFit East Nashville Owner - Jordyn Schumm 42:59

3M ago42:59

42:59

Follow Jordyn on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jordyn.schumm/By Plates & PRs

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Interview w/ Dana Paran - Heading to Semifinals 36:21

4M ago36:21

36:21

Listen to our interview with Dana Paran as she competes this weekend at the North America East CrossFit Semifinals. Find Dana here: https://www.instagram.com/dvnveverest/ Follow us on Instagram @PlatesandPRs for more updates and insights.By Plates & PRs

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Introducing Plates & PRs: The Next Chapter 33:54

4M ago33:54

33:54

Meet your hosts, Kat and Christina. We share our journeys, the impact of functional fitness on our lives, and the reasons behind our name change to Plates & PRs Nutrition Coaching. Discover why we started this podcast, what to expect in future episodes, and our approach to training, nutrition, and wellness. Follow us on Instagram @PlatesandPRs for …

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Making, with Kat Jungnickel 40:12

4M ago40:12

40:12

What does it mean to make things? Why are some people valorised as “makers”, while others are rendered invisible? And what duty do sociologists have as makers of knowledge and narratives? The “sewing cycling sociologist” Kat Jungnickel joins Uncommon Sense to discuss all this and more; including her years of research celebrating historic female cyc…

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Burnout, with Hannah Proctor 48:57

5M ago48:57

48:57

Burnout has become a byword for workplace exhaustion, but does it have a deeper history? Hannah Proctor joins us to explain how the notion emerged in the USA’s 1960s countercultural free clinics movement, at first relating to the emotional defeat of idealistic activists but came to be seen as simply the result of working too hard. It’s a story that…

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Privilege, with Shamus Khan 48:20

6M ago48:20

48:20

What does privilege look like today? How do the advantaged perform “ease”? And why do some of us feel at home in elite spaces, while others feel awkward? Princeton sociologist Shamus Khan joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on elites, entitlement and more. Reminding us that “poor people are not why there’s inequality; rich people are why there’s inequa…

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Rules, with Swethaa Ballakrishnen 45:20

8M ago45:20

45:20

What are rules for? What's at stake if we assume that they're neutral? And if we want rules to be progressive, does it matter who makes them? Socio-legal scholar Swethaa Ballakrishnen joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, highlighting the value of studying law not just in theory but in action, and drawing on a career spanning law and ac…

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Spirituality, with Andrew Singleton 40:13

9M ago40:13

40:13

What exactly is spirituality? How does it relate to religion? Are both misunderstood? And what stands beyond and behind the idea that it has all simply been commodified to be about wellness, big business and celebrity? Andrew Singleton joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on this and more, including his experience researching young people’s spiritual pr…

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Anxiety, with Nicky Falkof 46:05

10M ago46:05

46:05

Anxiety is part of contemporary life, yet rarely seen as anything other than personal and intimately psychological. Cultural Studies scholar Nicky Falkof joins us to discuss her work on fear and anxiety in South Africa, and how such negative emotions are often collective and collectively constructed – and relate deeply to our identities. Indeed, as…

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Success, with Jo Littler 43:51

11M ago43:51

43:51

“If you’re talented and work hard, success (whatever that is) will be yours!” – So says the powerful system and ideology known as “meritocracy”. But if only it were so simple! Jo Littler joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on where this idea came from, how it became mainstream, and how it gets used by elites to convince us we live in a system that is o…

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BONUS EPISODE – Public Sociology, with Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis, Cecilia Menjívar & Michaela Benson 59:45

12M ago59:45

59:45

What is public sociology and why does it matter more than ever? Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis and Cecilia Menjívar join Michaela Benson to reflect on its meaning, value and stakes. In a time of perpetual crisis and gross inequality, how can sociologists best change minds and set agendas? Why are some voices valued over others? And who does being tru…

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Performance, with Kareem Khubchandani 53:35

1y ago53:35

53:35

From Shakespeare to RuPaul, we all love a performance. But what exactly is it? What are its boundaries, its powers, its potential, its stakes? Kareem Khubchandani, who also performs as LaWhore Vagistan – “everyone's favourite desi drag queen aunty” – joins Uncommon Sense to unpack the latest thinking on refusal, repetition and more. And to discuss …

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Nature, with Catherine Oliver 43:39

1y ago43:39

43:39

It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what’s at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she c…

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Europeans, with Manuela Boatcă 49:43

1+ y ago49:43

49:43

Does anyone know what European means? Manuela Boatcă thought she did, until a late 1990s move from Romania to Germany unsettled everything she had taken for granted. In this episode, she challenges mainstream ideas of “Europe” to show how its borders extend to the Caribbean (and beyond) – a fact that’s obvious if we acknowledge colonialism’s past a…

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Solidarity, with Suresh Grover, Shabna Begum & Karis Campion 59:30

1+ y ago59:30

59:30

AUDIO CONTENT WARNING: description of extreme racist violence In 1993, Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack that sparked a long fight for justice and led the UK to ask questions of itself and its institutions. Three decades on – with The Runnymede Trust’s Shabna Begum, and Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group – K…

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EPISODE SWAP – Who do we think we are? presents Global Britain: Of Kings, Songs and Migrants 46:47

1+ y ago46:47

46:47

What does Eurovision have to do with the Coronation? In this episode swap, the team at Who do we think we are? is talking about what we learn about “Global Britain” and its imagined community by looking at how migrants understand major cultural events. Elena Zambelli explains what social scientists mean when they talk about the imagined community. …

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Breakups, with Ilana Gershon 47:16

1+ y ago47:16

47:16

“Follow”? “Block”? “Accept”? Anthropologist Ilana Gershon joins us to reflect on breakups in both our intimate and working lives. She tells Alexis and Rosie how hearing her students’ surprising stories of using new media – supposedly a tool for connection – to end romantic entanglements led to her 2010 book “The Breakup 2.0”. She also shares insigh…

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Taste, with Irmak Karademir Hazir 48:09

1+ y ago48:09

48:09

What makes “good” taste? Who decides? And what’s it got to do with inequality? Sociologist Irmak Karademir Hazir grew up watching women in her parents’ clothing boutique. She explains how her fascination for taste emerged from that and why talking about things like fashion, film and music is far from trivial – it’s how we distinguish ourselves from…

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Listening, with Les Back 45:28

1+ y ago45:28

45:28

What does it mean to really listen in a society obsessed with spectacle? What’s hidden when powerful people claim to “hear” or “give voice” to others? And what’s at stake if we think that using fancy recording devices helps us to neatly capture “truth”? Les Back – author of “The Art of Listening” – tells Alexis and Rosie why listening to society is…

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Natives, with Nandita Sharma 47:43

1+ y ago47:43

47:43

In this supposedly “post-colonial” age, the idea of the native continues to be distorted and deployed, whether in Narendra Modi’s India or calls for “British jobs for British workers”. How and why has this word – so powerful in the age of empire – lived on into the 21st century? Who gains? And how has it gone from being a term applied to those rule…

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Emotion, with Billy Holzberg 46:45

2y ago46:45

46:45

Emojis! Feminism! Rage! Sociologist Billy Holzberg joins us to talk about emotion. Why is it dismissed as an obstacle to progress and clear thinking – and to whose benefit? How can we let anger into politics without sanctioning far-right violence? And why are some of us freer than others to play with emotional abjection? Billy reflects on all this …

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Cities, with Romit Chowdhury 45:25

2y ago45:25

45:25

Lonely? Mean? Hostile? Cities get a bad rap. But why? Romit Chowdhury has lived in cities worldwide; from Kolkata to Rotterdam. He tells Alexis and Rosie about the wonder of urban “enchantment” found in a stranger’s smile, our changing ideas of the “urban”, and why anonymity is not always in fact the enemy of civility and friendship in the city. Pl…

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Bodies, with Charlotte Bates 40:46

2y ago40:46

40:46

We each have a body, but every body’s story is unique. In this intimate conversation, sociologist Charlotte Bates tells Alexis and Rosie why studying bodies – and how we talk about them – matters in a society where some are privileged over others, and why ableism harms us all. Charlotte talks about her co-authored work on wild swimming, arguing tha…

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How can we help you? 2:01

2y ago2:01

2:01

EDUCATORS! STUDENTS! LISTENERS! We want to hear from you ... We’re taking a short summer break, and will be back in September ready and refreshed for the new term, and with a new episode for you! So, while Rosie and Alexis have some well-earned time-outs – and catch up on reading for forthcoming shows on things like cities, emotion and noise – we h…

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Security, with Daria Krivonos 42:33

2y ago42:33

42:33

Too often, talk about security seems to belong to politicians and psychologists; to discussions about terrorism and defence, individual anxiety and insecurity. But how do sociologists think about it? And why care? Daria Krivonos – who works on migration, race and class in Central and Eastern Europe – tells Alexis and Rosie why security matters. Wha…

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Intimacy, with Katherine Twamley 41:55

2y ago41:55

41:55

Think of intimacy and, pretty soon, you’ll probably think about sex. But, as sociologist Katherine Twamley explains, intimacy means much more than that: it’s woven through so many of our relationships – including with people whose names we might not even know. She tells Rosie and Alexis how an accidental trip to India got her thinking about the var…

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School, with Remi Joseph-Salisbury 43:31

2+ y ago43:31

43:31

School should be about play, fulfilment and learning. But it is also a place of surveillance, discipline and discrimination. Activist scholar Remi Joseph-Salisbury has researched policing, racism and education in the UK. He tells Rosie and Alexis what happens when policing enters the classroom, its impact on students and teachers of colour, and the…

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Home, with Michaela Benson 40:07

2+ y ago40:07

40:07

Home means something to everyone. More than just bricks and mortar, it’s about security and belonging, citizenship and exclusion. Michaela Benson has researched it all: from the UK’s self-build communities, to people seeking a new lifestyle abroad. She tells Alexis and Rosie about this and her own experience of home, including her mother’s relation…

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Care, with Bev Skeggs 43:20

2+ y ago43:20

43:20

What does care really mean? For feminist sociologist Bev Skeggs, it should be at the heart of how we organise our society – from tax to health, to climate action. She talks to Alexis and Rosie about the costs of complacency, her own shocking experience of care (or lack of it) as her own parents faced the end of life, and why we have every right to …

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Introducing Uncommon Sense 1:30

2+ y ago1:30

1:30

This is Uncommon Sense, the podcast that sees our world afresh, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review, it’s a space for questioning taken-for-granted ideas about society – for imagining better ways of living together and confronting our shared crises. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in …

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