Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHilda Lloréns, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice" (U of Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 154
When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pomm…
4 years, 2 months ago
Urban Climate Change and Adaptation: Messages from the IPCC Report for Southeast Asia
Episode 115
“An atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” is how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the IPCC …
4 years, 2 months ago
Sophie Chao, "In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 151
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). …
4 years, 2 months ago
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
Episode 215
As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural A…
4 years, 2 months ago
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
Episode 55
Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022)
edited by Ilan Kelman
Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches, and idea…
4 years, 2 months ago
Heather Goodall, "Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980" (ANU Press, 2022)
Episode 54
Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves, and Resident Action, 1945-1980 (ANU Press, 2022)
by Heather Goodall
The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dh…
4 years, 2 months ago
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
Episode 32
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural pr…
4 years, 2 months ago
John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)
Episode 271
It is slowly becoming clear that we are heading towards a deep ecological catastrophe. Our societies carbon footprint and its impact have been known …
4 years, 2 months ago
Peter B. Lavelle, "The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 434
In The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China (Columbia UP, 2020), Peter Lavelle offers a fa…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
Episode 5
In her book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century (Oxford UP, 2022), Cambridge academic Helen Thompson gets beyond the ephemeral and analyses inst…
4 years, 2 months ago