Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
Episode 1224
Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussm…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)
Episode 1223
Permafrost melts, desert cities boil, inland lakes dry up; but Waltham too in its own way has become one of the dark places of the earth. Adverse man…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Lucy Stewart, "The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden" (Birlinn, 2026)
Episode 1222
As detailed in The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden (Birlinn, 2026) by Lucy Stewart, at the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventur…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)
Episode 1221
In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature responds to climate breakdown. Drawing upon concepts of sov…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Cooking Sections, "Waves Lost at Sea" (Spector Books, 2026)
Episode 1220
Waves Lost at Sea (Spector Books, 2026) traces the evolving practice of Cooking Sections, whose work spans visual arts, architecture, and ecology. Si…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Caroline Kuzemko, "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1219
By exploring the dynamic relationships between politics, policymaking, and policy over time, Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate wit…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 1218
Despite it's centrality to a hippie counterculture which claimed an environmentalist ethos, California's "green rush" of cannabis growing from the mi…
5 months ago
Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Noo Saro-Wiwa
Episode 1217
Noo Saro-Wiwa is an author and journalist. Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England, she attended King's College London and Columbia Uni…
5 months ago
Masako Ichihara, "Climate Change Litigation in Japan: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities for Environmental Law" (Brill, 2026)
Episode 1216
Climate Change Litigation in Japan: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities for Environmental Law (Brill, 2026) provides the details of Japanese climate…
5 months, 1 week ago
Andrew W. M. Smith, "Make Cheese Not War: Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in Modern France" (Manchester UP, 2026)
Episode 1215
In 1971, the French government announced a massive extension of its military base on the Larzac plateau in southern France. Land was to be expropriat…
5 months, 1 week ago