Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBoaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 77
The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contrad…
2 years, 10 months ago
Simone M. Müller, "The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 162
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in searc…
2 years, 10 months ago
Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 159
Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are co…
2 years, 10 months ago
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 157
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellb…
2 years, 10 months ago
Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 46
The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries (Cambridge UP, 2023) provides a comprehensive examination of European engagement w…
2 years, 10 months ago
Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 192
For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an ove…
2 years, 10 months ago
Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Episode 349
The Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River provides electricity for some forty million people, and is one of the largest sources of water in the Ameri…
2 years, 10 months ago
Heather White, "One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet" (Harper Horizon, 2022)
Episode 163
The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 97
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy?
Focusing on the special economic zones resul…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sarah E. Vaughn, "Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 160
Sarah E. Vaughn’s Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke UP, 2022) examines climate adaptation strategies that upend the n…
2 years, 10 months ago