Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 266
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against an…
3 years, 5 months ago
Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 118
In far northeastern Alaska lies one of the most remarkable, and contested, places in North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This coastal…
3 years, 5 months ago
The ‘Domino Effect’: Global and Regional Climate Change Impacts on Food Supply Chains
Episode 73
There is a complex relationship between climate change and food systems. Food supply chains – in particular food transportation – result in global gr…
3 years, 5 months ago
Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 117
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier …
3 years, 5 months ago
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 137
What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (U California Press, 2022), anthropologist…
3 years, 5 months ago
Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 116
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. T…
3 years, 5 months ago
Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
Episode 1288
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual susten…
3 years, 5 months ago
Off-Shore Aesthetics
Episode 104
Sritama Chatterjee talks about a model of literary criticism that she developed in the process of writing her new essay on shipbreaking in Bangladesh…
3 years, 5 months ago
Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 81
Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental…
3 years, 6 months ago
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 46
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it is that the world is bound together by shared challenges—and that at the center of those challenges s…
3 years, 6 months ago