Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMartin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 189
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe.
Reading literature in a time of c…
3 years, 6 months ago
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 87
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship betwee…
3 years, 7 months ago
Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 12
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a S…
3 years, 7 months ago
Sarah T. Hines, "Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 175
Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians …
3 years, 7 months ago
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
Episode 44
Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Andreas Malm, "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (Verso, 2021)
Episode 153
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and …
3 years, 7 months ago
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 34
The Caspian Sea region has hitherto largely been investigated from a New Great Game' perspective that depicts the region as a geopolitical battlegro…
3 years, 7 months ago
John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 134
The squatter—defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"—had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the ant…
3 years, 7 months ago
Julie Sze, "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 133
“Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi Klein
We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment.…
3 years, 7 months ago
Rafico Ruiz, "Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 132
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, cre…
3 years, 7 months ago