Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChristian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context
Episode 1244
Why has the Catholic Church in India become so engaged in environmental initiatives? And what does the wider Indian political context defined by an a…
3 months ago
Introducing Periodically: A UC Press Journals Podcast with Journals Director David Famiano
Episode 1243
1. A complete list of University of California Press journals is available at UC Press Journals
2. Clare E. B. Cannon; Advancing sustainable transiti…
3 months ago
Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 1242
Between the late 1940s and the end of the twentieth century, natural gas became Iran's bedrock energy source. Billed as a futuristic fuel for a futur…
3 months ago
Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen, "Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 1241
How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and m…
3 months ago
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Episode 1240
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage …
3 months ago
Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 1239
There is no alternative. The End of History. Climate Apocalypse. It seems that our contemporary moment is defined by the idea that things can only …
3 months, 1 week ago
Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1238
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communit…
3 months, 1 week ago
Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)
Episode 1237
An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthe…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 1236
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Javier Arbona-Homar, "Explosivity: Following What Remains" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Episode 1235
Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity: Following What Remains (U Minnesota Press, 2025) unearths the hidden legaci…
3 months, 2 weeks ago