Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKate Rigby, "Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 91
The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the “romanticising”…
4 years, 5 months ago
David Moon et al., "Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History" (White Horse Press, 2021)
Episode 177
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History (White Horse Press, 2021) is a collection of essays on environmental history spanning prima…
4 years, 6 months ago
Traci Brynne Voyles, "The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Episode 83
Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wil…
4 years, 6 months ago
Negotiated Environmentalism: Influences of Domestic Interest Groups in China’s Environmental Foreign Relations
Episode 90
COP26 was billed as the make or break event in the fight against climate change. In conversation with Quynh Le Vo, Sharon Seah, coordinator of the IS…
4 years, 6 months ago
Thane Gustafson, "Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 59
With COP26 and high fossil fuel prices, energy is back in the headlines. And Russia, as one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbons, is part…
4 years, 6 months ago
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Episode 90
The volume, Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change, edited by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirkse…
4 years, 6 months ago
Margaret D. Jacobs, "After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 89
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton UP, 2021) confronts the harsh truth that the United State…
4 years, 6 months ago
Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century
Episode 46
Southeast Asia is the most tectonically and geologically active region on Earth. These processes have enriched the mountains and basins with world-fa…
4 years, 6 months ago
Kenneth O'Reilly, "Asphalt: A History" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Episode 88
In Asphalt: A History (U Nebraska Press, 2021), Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt—in …
4 years, 6 months ago
Gavin Van Horn et al., "Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set" (Center for Humans and Nature, 2021)
Episode 87
From The Center for Humans and Nature, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a five-volume collection of essays, interviews, poetry, and stor…
4 years, 6 months ago