Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobin 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, 8 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, 8 months ago
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
Episode 42
From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of …
1 year, 8 months ago
David Strayer, "Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 198
Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) is an exciting foray into Earth's inland waters, the remarka…
1 year, 8 months ago
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
Episode 969
Climate change is among the most significant challenges facing modern society, and it impacts everyone across the world. How do people in different s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Negative Life
Episode 967
Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Brandon Keim, "Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World" (Norton, 2024)
Episode 74
What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild creatures around us?
Honeybees deliberate democraticall…
1 year, 9 months ago
Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
Episode 752
Josh Spodek disconnected his Manhattan apartment from the electric grid in May 2022. Over time, he has reduced his consumption and contribution to la…
1 year, 9 months ago
Veronica Strang, "Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis" (Reaktion, 2023)
Episode 52
Jana Byars talks to Veronica Strang about her new book Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis (Reaktion, 2023). Looking to the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Nina Edwards, "Weeds" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 1524
To most of us, weeds can seem nothing more than intruders in gardens, farms and city streets. But the idea of the weed is a slippery one, constantly …
1 year, 9 months ago