Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchClimate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse with Laurie Parsons (LSE Press, 2026)
Episode 50
Climate action is at an impasse. Its political opponents are stronger than ever, its advocates powerless. Almost every major government and corporat…
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Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities with yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (U Virginia Press, 2026)
Episode 51
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities (U Virginia Press, 2026) examines the epistemological adjustments that take…
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Damian White and Nicholas Pevzner, "Designing the Just Transition: Design-Politics, Labor, and the Battle for Post-Carbon Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 49
Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist b…
1 week ago
Conor Harrison, "Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Episode 47
The twenty-first century has seen major transformations in the US electricity sector—but while the use of coal power wanes and the need for renewable…
1 week, 1 day ago
Jared D Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor, "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" (OSU Press, 2026)
Episode 48
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the imp…
1 week, 1 day ago
Billy Fleming, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2026)
Episode 1289
What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home" (Norton, 2026)
Episode 1288
In Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home (Norton, 2026), the architect and urban planner Stefan Al asks–– where is a good…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Leah C. Stokes, "The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 1287
They were perhaps an unlikely trio: professor Leah Stokes, the policy wonk Sonia Aggarwal in the White House, and the DC insider Adrian Deveny in the…
3 weeks ago
Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Geomythography: Myth, Landscape and the Roots of Culture" (Luath Press, 2025)
Episode 1286
What can we learn from our landscape? How can Geomythography help us understand our cultural heritage? What is Geomythography?
Geomythography is the …
3 weeks ago
Robert Shum, "Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Episode 1285
Democracy or Carbon Oligarchy?: Climate and Energy Politics between Crisis and Decarbonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) tackles a critical question…
3 weeks, 1 day ago