Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
Episode 121
We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social…
1 year, 3 months ago
William A. Selby, "The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next" (Heyday Books, 2024)
Episode 120
Often stereotyped as the land of unflaggingly perfect weather, California has a world-renowned reputation for sunny blue skies and infinitely even-ke…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 262
From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world.
B…
1 year, 4 months ago
Helen Louise Cowie, "Animals in World History" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 27
Animals in World History (Routledge, 2024) by Dr. Helen Cowie provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting att…
1 year, 4 months ago
Peter Hill, "River Profiles: The People Restoring Our Waterways" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 200
Peter Hill has been working as a resource manager with a specialty in stream restoration for over two decades, first for Washington DC and then as a …
1 year, 4 months ago
Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 199
The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. …
1 year, 4 months ago
Melanie Dennis Unrau, "The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
Episode 41
Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and willful ignorance of the extractive industr…
1 year, 4 months ago
James Michael Buckley, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 178
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a to base exploit the rich natural resources of the American…
1 year, 4 months ago
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 550
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of noma…
1 year, 4 months ago
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop, "The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 141
Every year, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhône valley of southern France, across the Camargue wetlands, and into the Mediterranean Sea. …
1 year, 4 months ago