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Back to SearchVincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 242
Vincanne Adams's book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology tha…
2 years, 10 months ago
Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 158
In From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2022), Professor Marco Grasso examines the respo…
2 years, 11 months ago
Simone Ferracina, "Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 88
Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Simone Ferracina's book…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
Episode 68
Amidst all the talk of a green revolution what about the blue stuff? There are the seas that will wash over inhabited land, there’s the sea economy w…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Episode 120
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, ba…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
Episode 166
Like wolves, orcas have been loved and loathed throughout history. What created this complicated relationship between humans and whales? And have we …
2 years, 11 months ago
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 298
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in …
2 years, 11 months ago
Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World
Episode 73
Absorbing the full reality of climate change will require more than a scientific approach. Some American Jews are showing how religious ritual can he…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Environmental Unconscious
Episode 121
Steven Swarbrick talks about poetic engagement with nature in the work of early modern poets Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and Joh…
2 years, 11 months ago
Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 157
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. …
2 years, 11 months ago