Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIhnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Episode 41
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and s…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Charles Watkins, "Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 234
Charles Watkins joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Trees Ancient and Modern (Reaktion, 2025). This delightful new book explores the relatio…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Michael Maniates, "The Living-Green Myth" (Polity Press, 2025)
Episode 1113
Dr. Michael F. Maniates is a leading scholar in environmental politics and sustainability studies whose work has fundamentally reshaped how researche…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
Episode 1111
An ecologist in California claimed that the iron laws of nature locked humanity into destroying our environment. This meant that we must take drastic…
11 months ago
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia
Episode 46
As permafrost in Siberia continues to melt and the steppe in the Gobi turns to desert, people in Mongolia are faced with overlapping climate crises. …
11 months ago
R. Jisung Park, "Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1110
R. Jisung Park is assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the School of Social Policy and Practice and …
11 months ago
Jesse Rodenbiker, "Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 1109
Based on two years of extensive fieldwork, Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (Cornell UP, 2023) examines ecolo…
11 months ago
Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)
Episode 1108
Animals speak. Plants do too. Seas and mountains are not a mute background to human actions, but have interests and agency. Many more-than-human bein…
11 months, 1 week ago
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 102
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases ar…
11 months, 1 week ago
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 35
Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, Animal Revolut…
11 months, 1 week ago