Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeff D. Colgan, "Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 105
When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of wealth across borders in all of human history began with the oil crisi…
4 years ago
Taylor Eggan, "Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
Episode 106
In today's NBN Environmental Studies interview, dancer, performer, and literary scholar Dr. Taylor Eggan joins us to speak about his new book Unsettl…
4 years ago
Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan E. Kallman, "Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 58
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—soci…
4 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment
Episode 117
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law profess…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 99
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twenti…
4 years, 1 month ago
Lukas Ley, "Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building o…
4 years, 1 month ago
Tracey Williams, "Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea" (Unicorn, 2022)
Episode 57
In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one containe…
4 years, 1 month ago
Larry E. Swedroe and Samuel C. Adams, "Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing" (Harriman House, 2022)
Episode 38
The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But …
4 years, 1 month ago
Mary Louise Pratt, "Planetary Longings" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 280
In Planetary Longings (Duke UP, 2022), eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first…
4 years, 1 month ago
Faisal H. Husain, "Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 104
Rivers of the Sultan offers a history of the Ottoman Empire's management of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the early modern period. During the ea…
4 years, 1 month ago