Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCorey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1491
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. Thes…
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Lightning Birds
Episode 26
Today we present the first episode of Jacob Smith’s new eco-critical audiobook, Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. In this audio-only b…
1 year, 7 months ago
Rebuild by Design: A Talk by Eric Klinenberg
Episode 72
In October 2010, Eric Klinenberg, NYU professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, spoke about his work on Rebuild by D…
1 year, 7 months ago
Roberta L. Millstein, "The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 355
Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is…
1 year, 7 months ago
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 189
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions …
1 year, 7 months ago
Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 116
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwo…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
Episode 11
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, g…
1 year, 8 months ago
Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Episode 76
Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (Brandeis University Press, 2024). A fascinating…
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Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 371
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle pro…
1 year, 8 months ago
Forest Listening Rooms
Episode 23
What would happen if you took red state rural voters on a walk into the woods with left-wing environmental activists and experimental music fans? Our…
1 year, 8 months ago