Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 126
Adrienne Buller (The Value of a Whale) and Mathew Lawrence (Planet on Fire) have penned a radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic p…
3 years, 9 months ago
Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia
Episode 144
Between March and May of this year, large parts of India and Pakistan were hit by a severe heat wave that claimed at least 90 lives and seriously imp…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
Episode 25
We are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals daily. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in o…
3 years, 9 months ago
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 96
Money does strange things to people, as Annah Lake Zhu notes in her latest book Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global Chin…
3 years, 9 months ago
Paolo Squatriti, "Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 8
In Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Paolo Squatriti ask…
3 years, 9 months ago
Max Foran, "The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife: Failures of Principle and Policy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
Episode 36
Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for …
3 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
Episode 26
There is no shortage of words written about climate change and the goal of reaching net zero - but there is a shortage of practical suggestions about…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 35
Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, Animal Revolut…
3 years, 9 months ago
Adam Sundberg, "Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 10
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. Th…
3 years, 9 months ago
J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945" (Harvard UP, 2016)
Episode 125
The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, …
3 years, 9 months ago