Slow Reckoning with Amarinder Sidhu

Amarinder Sidhu
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Slow Reckoning is a podcast about the gap between what we know and what we live by. Long-form conversations about what's worth attending to, what we're surrendering without noticing, and what a more honest accounting of our lives might look like. Hosted by Amarinder Sidhu. amarindersidhu.substack.com

Episodes

  1. Jul 17

    Why Parenting Feels Exhausting

    In this episode of the Slow Reckoning Podcast, host Amarinder Sidhu speaks with Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, about her new book Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting. Nina describes sociology as the scientific study of human behavior in social context, at both the micro and macro level. And how economic sociology, the core of her academic practice, explores the social meaning of money and how it interacts with our values, emotions, and relationships. The episode digs into how parenting has become an "emotional economy," where economization (investment-style reasoning, financialization, privatization, and marketization of childcare, tutoring, and youth sports) merges with emotionalization (therapeutic advice culture, a heightened focus on emotions, and the centrality of the parent-child relationship). The conversation moves through the growth of the parenting industrial complex, and how parents have come to rely on privatized services to prepare their kids for future success as public options shrink. It closes on the collective action problem parents find themselves inside, the case for public investment in raising children, and how each parent might think differently about what it means to raise a young person in today's world. 00:00 Welcome and Introductions 02:33 Sociology as a Field of Study 05:20 What is Economic Sociology 07:49 How the Book Came About 14:21 Defining Emotional Economy of Parenting 18:36 Economization and Emotionalization 23:50 Viewing Kids as Human Capital 28:47 Preschool and Youth Enrichment Race 34:12 Parenting Industrial Complex 39:07 Good Parent Feelings 41:28 Expanding Extracurriculars 43:02 Why Parents Enroll 46:24 End of Free Play 49:51 Viewing Kids as Investments 50:29 Parent Expectations from Kids 55:16 Therapy Culture and Parenting 01:04:07 Social Inequality and Parent Burnout 01:09:49 Resistance to Public Support 01:14:10 Rethinking Parenting Choices 01:19:43 Closing Reflections This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amarindersidhu.substack.com

    Why Parenting Feels Exhausting

  2. May 4

    Conspicuous Anti-Consumption

    In this first episode of the Slow Reckoning Podcast, host Amarinder Sidhu speaks with Tejvir Sekhon, a professor of Marketing at West Washington University, about using "dark arts of marketing" for social good. Tejvir explains his research focus on consumer wellbeing, moral decision making, and sustainable consumption, and discusses his work on “conspicuous anti-consumption,” including how brands like Patagonia can make reduced consumption socially legible. They also unpack status signaling beyond wealth, the role of choice architecture in everyday decisions, and how marketing and money shape preferences in markets and politics. The episode gets into Tejvir's poetic reflections on consumer dilemmas and parenting pressures, from Halloween candy and kids’ devices to competitive parenting, Costco waste, and longevity marketing, ending with optimism about business students seeking change from within. 00:00 Welcome and Introductions 01:00 Marketing for Social Good 04:11 Conspicuous Anti Consumption 08:29 Patagonia and Profit Logic 12:30 Poetic Consumer Dilemmas 16:42 Choice Sets and Blame 19:17 Ads Politics and Preferences 23:00 Parenting in a Yes World 27:44 Costco Bulk and Waste 29:25 Longevity Market Solutions 33:30 Scaling Sustainable Marketing 38:31 Hope in Future Marketers 40:11 Closing Thanks and Wrap This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amarindersidhu.substack.com

    Conspicuous Anti-Consumption
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Slow Reckoning is a podcast about the gap between what we know and what we live by. Long-form conversations about what's worth attending to, what we're surrendering without noticing, and what a more honest accounting of our lives might look like. Hosted by Amarinder Sidhu. amarindersidhu.substack.com

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