Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPlanetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
Episode 61
In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked hi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 29
The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'sust…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 128
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of farm machinery, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides are sold to farmers around the world. Althoug…
1 year, 5 months ago
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 232
In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 1015
Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monume…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 522
In Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024), Ståle Holgersen develops a conceptualization of 'crisis' that moves beyo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Duncan Watson, "Everyone's Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds" (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2024)
Episode 208
Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards about five pounds of waste. Be it a bottle that gets placed in a recycl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
Episode 1012
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampe…
1 year, 5 months ago
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 207
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments…
1 year, 5 months ago
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Episode 383
The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by …
1 year, 6 months ago