Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSaptarishi Bandopadhyay, "All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 53
All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State (Oxford UP, 2022) attempts to answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: what i…
4 years, 2 months ago
Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund, "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Episode 100
Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating eighteenth-century scientific knowledge leadin…
4 years, 2 months ago
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 147
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most impor…
4 years, 2 months ago
Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza, "A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 269
In A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2021), Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza exami…
4 years, 2 months ago
Leadership and Humility: A Conversation with Major General Ken Wisian
Episode 5
For today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Ken Wisian, who is geophysicist and Associate Director in the Environmental Division of the Bur…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 98
A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet (Yale University Press, 2021) by celebrated biologist Jo…
4 years, 3 months ago
John Zerzan, "When We Are Human: Notes from the Age of Pandemics" (Feral House, 2021)
Episode 146
These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis. Chronic illne…
4 years, 3 months ago
Architecture, Climatic Privilege, and Migrant Labour in Singapore
Episode 52
Migration and architecture have emerged as a new topic of research at a global level. Migrant worker dormitories in Singapore, for example, are sites…
4 years, 3 months ago
Michael Méndez, "Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement" (Yale UP, 2020)
Episode 51
Michael Méndez: Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement (Yale University Press,…
4 years, 3 months ago
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
Episode 97
Would a claim that human possession and property rights as merely temporary seem outlandish to a 21st-century thinker? How would this idea be receive…
4 years, 3 months ago