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Episode 1186
Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1184
Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of sup…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Jason Cons, "Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1183
A free e-book version of Delta Futures is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to…
7 months ago
Aidan Seale-Feldman, "The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1182
The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of r…
7 months ago
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 52
How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this assumpti…
7 months ago
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1181
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivere…
7 months ago
Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 1179
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world …
7 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Zeitzoff, "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 1178
An authoritative history of the radical environmental movement in the United States, No Option But Sabotage explores how far activists are willing to…
7 months, 1 week ago
David Obst, "Saving Ourselves from Big Car" (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025)
Episode 1177
Streetwise: Saving Ourselves from Big Car (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2025) exposes how “Big Car”―the complex of companies in the automobil…
7 months, 1 week ago
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 1176
This episode is brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group.
African Climate Futures (Oxford UP, 2025) shows how climat…
7 months, 1 week ago