Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
Episode 37
The first wealth is health, according to Emerson. Among health’s riches is its political potential. Few know this better than environmentalists. In h…
2 years, 4 months ago
Robert Michael Morrissey, "People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 149
By putting the Midwest at the center of Vast Early America, University of Illinois historian Robert Morrissey reconfigures the power dynamics in the …
2 years, 4 months ago
Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
Episode 62
In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that d…
2 years, 5 months ago
Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 3
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Leigh Claire La Berge, "Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 429
At the outset of Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke UP, 2023), Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.”…
2 years, 5 months ago
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
Episode 210
Musicians and community activists in Ghana have raised their voices to increase awareness of the environmental impact of Chinese activities in the co…
2 years, 5 months ago
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Episode 61
In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024), Dr. Marcy Norton offers a dramatic new interpretation of th…
2 years, 5 months ago
Timothy Brook, "The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 168
Ming China in 1642 had suffered a series of disasters. Floods, and then drought had destroyed successive rice crops, sending the price of grain to as…
2 years, 5 months ago
Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 1
Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, commercial, political, social, and cultural collapse…
2 years, 5 months ago
Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
Episode 108
What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth? Does science simply represent a successful methodology, or is it …
2 years, 5 months ago