Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his gl…
6 months ago
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 38
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books, …
6 months ago
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 76
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk i…
6 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michig…
6 months, 1 week ago
Conversations with Birds
Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North Americ…
6 months, 1 week ago
Micah S. Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2025)
From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and t…
6 months, 1 week ago
Stephen D. Hopper, "Eucalyptus" (Reaktion, 2025)
Eucalypts, iconic to Australia, have shaped art, science and landscapes worldwide. With around nine hundred species, from towering giants to compact …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
Episode 55
Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022)
edited by Ilan Kelman
Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches, and idea…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Arpitha Kodiveri, "Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests" (Melbourne UP, 2024)
In Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests (Melbourne UP, 2024), Arpitha Kodiveri unpacks the fraught and shifting relations…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 94
Jemma Deer’s Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) invites the reader to take a moment and to ponder on…
6 months, 3 weeks ago