Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCamelia Dewan, "Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 76
Climate change is one of the key challenges of our time and large amounts of development aid are allocated towards adaptation in the Global South. Ye…
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Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 77
How can consumers, nations, and international organizations work together to improve food systems before our planet loses its ability to sustain itse…
4 years, 9 months ago
Keith Pluymers, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Episode 73
Pushing back against the traditional narratives assuming that the American colonies served as resource “windfalls” which released Europe from the con…
4 years, 9 months ago
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, "Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Episode 71
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting Am…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 23
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable …
4 years, 9 months ago
Paul Sabin, "Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism" (Norton, 2021)
Episode 72
In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the p…
4 years, 9 months ago
Andrew Flachs, "Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
Episode 71
Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India by Andrew Flachs (University of Arizona Press, …
4 years, 9 months ago
Kirsten A. Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)
Episode 70
Remapping empire, nature, and scientific enquiry beyond the simple binary exchange between periphery and metropole, Dr. Kirsten Greer demonstrates ho…
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Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 69
Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and pr…
4 years, 9 months ago
Jonathan E. Robins, "Oil Palm: A Global History" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 68
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in s…
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