Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRebuild 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
2 years ago
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…
2 years 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…
2 years ago
Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 275
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, …
2 years ago
Andrea E. Pia, "Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 101
On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting…
2 years ago
Azra Hromadžić, "Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River" (CEU Press, 2024)
Episode 16
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér sat down with Azra Hromadžić (Syracuse University) to talk about her new book with CEU …
2 years ago