Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.

Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)

October 29, 2024

Unseasonable

Sarah Dimick
Hosted by Louisa Hann

As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the d…

Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)

October 26, 2024

Beekeeping in the End Times

Larisa Jasarević
Hosted by Yadong Li

Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…

Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

October 25, 2024

Atmospheric Violence

Omer Aijazi

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed c…

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

October 21, 2024

Sea Level

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and c…

Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)

October 20, 2024

Resigned Activism

Anna Lora-Wainwright
Hosted by Elena Sobrino

Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …

Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

October 17, 2024

Liquid Empire

Corey Ross
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These…

Lightning Birds

October 14, 2024

Lightning Birds

Jacob Smith
Hosted by Mack Hagood

Today we present the first episode of Jacob Smith’s new eco-critical audiobook, Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. In this audio-only bo…

Roberta L. Millstein, "The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

October 10, 2024

The Land Is Our Community

Roberta L. Millstein
Hosted by Carrie Figdor

Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is …

Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2024)

October 9, 2024

On the Swamp

Ryan Emanuel

Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwor…

Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)

October 9, 2024

Charging Forward

Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health condition…

Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives

October 6, 2024

Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives

Alyssa Paredes

This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…

Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

September 29, 2024

Bicycle

Jonathan Maskit
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle prom…

Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)

September 29, 2024

The Green Ages

Annette Kehnel
Hosted by Jana Byars

Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (Brandeis University Press, 2024). A fascinating …

Forest Listening Rooms

September 23, 2024

Forest Listening Rooms

Brian Harnetty
Hosted by Mack Hagood

What would happen if you took red state rural voters on a walk into the woods with left-wing environmental activists and experimental music fans? Our …

Amir Alexander, "Liberty's Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

September 21, 2024

Liberty's Grid

Amir Alexander
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, a…

Andrea E. Pia, "Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

September 20, 2024

Cutting the Mass Line

Andrea E. Pia
Hosted by Suvi Rautio

On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting …

Azra Hromadžić, "Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River" (CEU Press, 2024)

September 18, 2024

Riverine Citizenship

Azra Hromadžić
Hosted by CEU Press

In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér sat down with Azra Hromadžić (Syracuse University) to talk about her new book with CEU P…

John Schofield, "Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

September 15, 2024

Wicked Problems for Archaeologists

John Schofield
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for …

Thomas White, "China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier" (U Washington Press, 2024)

September 14, 2024

China's Camel Country

Thomas White
Hosted by Yadong Li

China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted…

Faizah Zakaria, "The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia" (U Washington Press, 2023)

September 4, 2024

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Faizah Zakaria
Hosted by Colum Graham

Recurring tropes about fragmented communities living on frontier forestlands living in Southeast Asia are that they are either guardians of flora and …