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Intellectual History October 21, 2021

On Borders

Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place

Paulina Ochoa Espejo

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a …

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African Studies October 21, 2021

The Muridiyya on the Move

Islam, Migration, and Place Making

Cheikh Anta Babou

Hosted by Sara Katz
The construction of collective identity among the Muridiyya abroad is a communal but contested endeavor. Differing conceptions of what should be the mission of Muridiyya institutions in the diaspora reveal …
Geography October 15, 2021

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new …
General History October 12, 2021

Imaginaries of Connectivity

The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance

Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt and Maarten Meijer

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of …
Geography October 6, 2021

The Nature of Space

Milton Santos

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The Nature of Space (Duke UP, 2021) is a translation (by Brenda Baletti) of pioneering geographer Milton Santos' A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offers a theory …
Environmental Studies October 6, 2021

Homewaters

A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound

David B Williams

Hosted by Matthew Brown
Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound (University of Washington Press, 2021) tells a story about exploitation and a story of hope. Focusing on the life histories …
Geography October 6, 2021

Breathing Fire

Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California's Wildfires

Jaime Lowe

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires for less than a dollar an hour On February 23, 2016, Shawna Lynn Jones stepped into the …
Eastern European Studies October 1, 2021

The Carpathians

Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine

Patrice M. Dabrowski

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Patrice M. Dabrowski's book The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (Northern Illinois UP, 2021) tells story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast September 30, 2021

Embracing the Anthropocene

Managing Human Impact

Mark Maslin

Hosted by Howard Burton
Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Mark Maslin, Professor of Geography at University College London. This wide-ranging conversation explores …
Geography September 22, 2021

Unnatural Disasters

Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed

Gonzalo Lizarralde

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed (Columbia UP, 2021) offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing …
Geography September 22, 2021

Cities in the Anthropocene

New Ecology and Urban Politics

Ihnji Jon

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan …
Science September 10, 2021

Atlas of Forecasts

Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures

Katy Borner

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and …
Geography September 8, 2021

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Emily O'Gorman

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended …
Geography September 8, 2021

The Pyrocene

How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

Stephen J. Pyne

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Stephen J. Pyne's new book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (U California Press, 2021) tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species …
Food September 6, 2021

Fair Trade Rebels

Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas

Lindsay Naylor

Hosted by Renata Blumberg
Fair trade certified coffee is now commonly found on the supermarket shelves of the Global North, but the connections between the consumer and producer of fair trade coffee are far …
General History August 18, 2021

Names of New York

Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Hosted by Robert Snyder
Geographer and writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro has a sharp appreciation for place, history, and the stories we tell to give meaning to our lives. All of these are present in his …
Philosophy August 10, 2021

When Maps Become the World

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
There are maps of the Earth’s landmasses, the universe, the ocean floors, human migration, the human brain: maps are so integral to how we interact with the world that we …
General History August 6, 2021

The Red Atlas

How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

John Davies and Alexander J. Kent

Hosted by Joshua Tham
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted an ambitious yet clandestine programme to map the world - from big cities like New York and Tokyo, to seemingly-obscure towns like Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel July 29, 2021

MAPPING THE GREAT GAME

Explorers, Spies & Maps in 19th Century Central Asia, India and Tibet

Riaz Dean

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
“A map is the greatest of all epic poems, its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” --Gilbert Grosvenor The Great Game raged through the wilds of Central …
Geography July 27, 2021

Mapping Beyond Measure

Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity

Simon Ferdinand

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (U Nebraska Press, 2019), Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in …