Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRaj Patel, "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things" (U California Press, 2017)
Episode 46
Award winning activist and researcher Raj Patel has teamed up with innovative environmental historian and historical geographer Jason W. Moore to pro…
3 years, 8 months ago
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
Episode 187
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) traces…
3 years, 8 months ago
Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022)
Episode 131
How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers (CRC Press, 2022) offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understandi…
3 years, 8 months ago
Martin Kalb, "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (Berghahn, 2022)
Episode 139
German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile and resulted in the widespread death and suffer…
3 years, 8 months ago
Nancy Fraser, "Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 129
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for ea…
3 years, 8 months ago
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 128
In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideal…
3 years, 8 months ago
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 38
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books, …
3 years, 8 months ago
Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
Episode 130
From the United Kingdom to Italy, from Brazil to the Gambia to the USA, Philip Lymbery, the internationally acclaimed author of Farmageddon, goes beh…
3 years, 8 months ago
Alex Nathanson, "A History of Solar Power Art and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 78
Alex Nathanson's book A History of Solar Power Art and Design (Routledge, 2021) examines the history of creative applications of photovoltaic (PV) so…
3 years, 8 months ago
Mrill Ingram, "Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth" (Temple UP, 2022)
Episode 74
How we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces—from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways—are created and maintained…
3 years, 8 months ago