Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMyles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 1057
In the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corporations increasingly see eye to eye. B…
1 year, 2 months ago
Judith Scheele, "Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara" (Basic Books, 2025)
Episode 216
What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, cl…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, "Green Transitional Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1056
In this episode, host Alex Batesmith sits down with Dr Rachel Killean and Dr Lauren Dempster to discuss their groundbreaking new book, Green Transiti…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 1054
This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key conc…
1 year, 2 months ago
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
Episode 1053
The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease (University of California Press, 2025) by Dr. Brent Z. Kaup & Dr. Kelly F. Austi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times" (Crown, 2024)
Episode 1052
These days it’s harder than ever to watch TV, scroll social media, or even just sit at home looking out of the window without contemplating the quest…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Episode 1051
Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fiftee…
1 year, 3 months ago
Johanna Drucker, "Affluvia: the Toxic Off-Gassing of Affluent Culture" (Bridge Art, 2025)
In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Tarin Ahmed, the host, is joined by guest, Johanna Drucker, an American author, book artist, visual the…
1 year, 3 months ago
Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
Episode 1050
Fire is a means of control and has been deployed or constrained to levy power over individuals, societies, and ecologies. In Burn Scars: A Documentar…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, and Joel Alden Schlosser, "Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 1049
Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive instit…
1 year, 3 months ago