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Environmental Studies
Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.
October 29, 2024
Unseasonable
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the d…
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
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…
October 25, 2024
Atmospheric Violence
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed c…
October 21, 2024
Sea Level
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and c…
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …
October 17, 2024
Liquid Empire
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…
October 14, 2024
Lightning Birds
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…
October 10, 2024
The Land Is Our Community
Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is …
October 9, 2024
On the Swamp
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwor…
October 9, 2024
Charging Forward
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…
October 6, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…
September 29, 2024
Bicycle
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle prom…
September 29, 2024
The Green Ages
Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (Brandeis University Press, 2024). A fascinating …
September 23, 2024
Forest Listening Rooms
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 …
September 21, 2024
Liberty's Grid
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, a…
September 20, 2024
Cutting the Mass Line
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 …
September 18, 2024
Riverine Citizenship
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…
September 15, 2024
Wicked Problems for Archaeologists
'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for …
September 14, 2024
China's Camel Country
China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted…
September 4, 2024
The Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Recurring tropes about fragmented communities living on frontier forestlands living in Southeast Asia are that they are either guardians of flora and …