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Politics & Polemics May 27, 2022

The Disenchanted Earth

Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism

Richard Seymour

Hosted by Nicholas Pritchard
In The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism (Indigo Press, 2022), Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading left-wing writers, gives an account of his 'ecological awakening'. A search for transcendence, beyond …

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Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

Unsettled Heritage

Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust

Yechiel Weizman

Hosted by Amber Nickell
In Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2022), Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places …
World Affairs May 25, 2022

Tomorrow's People

The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers

Paul Morland

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers …
American Studies May 24, 2022

A People's Guide to New York City

Carolina Bank Muñoz and Penny Lewis

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among …
Geography May 23, 2022

Underflows

Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice

Cleo Wölfle Hazard

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice …
Chinese Studies May 19, 2022

Fixing Landscape

A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges

Corey Byrnes

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
Corey Byrnes’ Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2019) is a work of considerable historical and disciplinary depth. Byrnes brings together the Tang dynasty …
Environmental Studies May 18, 2022

In Whose Ruins

Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire

Alicia Puglionesi

Hosted by Laura Stark
The important new book by Alicia Puglionesi, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession and the Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner, 2022), is a fat sampler of episodes that show how origin …
Economics May 18, 2022

Streets of Gold

America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth …
Geography May 16, 2022

Pipeline Populism

Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Kai Bosworth

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also …
Scholarly Communication May 12, 2022

The American Association of Geographers

Scholarly Societies Series

Emily Yeh

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located …
African Studies May 11, 2022

Africa’s Joola Shipwreck

Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster

Karen Samantha Barton

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left 64 survivors …
High Theory May 10, 2022

Deterritorialization

A Discussion with Shweta Krishnan

Shweta Krishnan

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Shweta Krishnan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. She speaks about how she uses Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization in her work …
Geography May 5, 2022

Building Something Better

Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change

Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities …
General History May 4, 2022

The Politics of Maps

Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine

Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Valley has been one of the most disputed territories in history. Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 …
Environmental Studies May 3, 2022

The Long Land War

The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

Jo Guldi

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth …
Geography April 29, 2022

Adrift

The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea

Tracey Williams

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly …
Geography April 22, 2022

How the Color Line Bends

The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America

Nina M. Yancy

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that …
Environmental Studies April 19, 2022

No Standard Oil

Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World

Deborah Gordon

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a …
Anthropology April 11, 2022

Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide

A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration

Adrian J Pearce, Paul Heggarty, and David G. Beresford-Jones

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. Because of …
Geography March 29, 2022

Antarcticness

Ilan Kelman

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Ilan Kelman's book Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022) joins disciplines, communication approaches, and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarctica. Personal and professional words in poetry and prose, plus images …