Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLouise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020)
Episode 31
As ancient creatures that once shared the Earth with dinosaurs, turtles have played a crucial role in maintaining healthy terrestrial and marine ecos…
5 years, 5 months ago
Nora Bateson. "Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns" (Triarchy Press, 2016)
Episode 25
“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.”
Nora Bate…
5 years, 5 months ago
Alex Alvarez, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Episode 128
Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential …
5 years, 5 months ago
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 870
In this episode we speak to Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Professor of History at the University of Reading about her new book Medieval Meteorology: Forecas…
5 years, 5 months ago
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
Episode 61
We are joined by Dr. Andrea Ballestero, associate Professor of Anthropology and Director Ethnography Studio, at Rice University. We will be talking a…
5 years, 5 months ago
Beating Plastic Pollution in Timor-Leste with Professor Thomas Maschmeyer
Episode 10
As environmental emergencies go, the explosion of plastic waste is right up there. With global plastic production exceeding 300 million tonnes each y…
5 years, 5 months ago
Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice" (UP of Florida, 2020)
Episode 224
Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida, 2020) by Quito Swan is an enchanting, magisterial, …
5 years, 6 months ago
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (Liveright, 2020)
Episode 14
Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly…
5 years, 6 months ago
Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 12
Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roads…
5 years, 6 months ago
Ray Ison, "Systems Practice: How to Act In Situations of Uncertainty and Complexity in a Climate-Change World" (Springer, 2017)
Episode 24
While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice …
5 years, 6 months ago