Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 72
The Earth Transformed. An Untold History (Knopf, 2023) is a captivating and informative book that reveals how climate change has been a driving force…
3 years, 1 month ago
Darrel Moellendorf, "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 314
The news concerning climate change isn’t good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabiliz…
3 years, 1 month ago
Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,
Episode 16
Timothy R. Pauketat’s Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America (Oxford UP, 2023) is a sweeping acco…
3 years, 1 month ago
Christina Dunbar-Hester, "Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 373
How can we stop infrastructure from damaging the planet? In Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond…
3 years, 1 month ago
Wendy Lynne Lee, "This is Environmental Ethics: An Introduction" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)
Episode 150
Wendy Lynne Lee's This is Environmental Ethics: An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons, 2022) provides students and scholars with a comprehensive introdu…
3 years, 1 month ago
Brett Christophers, "Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 149
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone…
3 years, 1 month ago
"Global Environmental Politics" Celebrates 20 Years of Success
Episode 55
The journal of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) has hit a tremendous milestone in 2020—celebrating its 20 years of publication with the MIT Press!…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Episode 177
How might we imagine justice in times of ecological harm? How are human struggles for social justice entangled with the lives of other beings includi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Joel E. Correia, "Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 91
The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most e…
3 years, 1 month ago
John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
Episode 147
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter (British Library, 2022) looks at threats to forest life across the globe. Dr. John Miller draws on literatu…
3 years, 2 months ago