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Environmental Studies August 9, 2022

Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond

Redefining the Universe Through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging

Lindsay Starkey

Hosted by Aspen Brown
What is holding the oceans back from entirely flooding the earth? While a twenty-first century thinker may approach the answer to this question within a framework of gravity and geologic deep-time, Lindsay Starkey …

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Anthropology August 3, 2022

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research …
Environmental Studies July 29, 2022

Water Always Wins

Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge

Erica Gies

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Trouble with water – increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts – is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engineered water infrastructure …
Asian Review of Books July 28, 2022

Science on the Roof of the World

Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya

Lachlan Fleetwood

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Today, the idea that the Himalayas have the world’s tallest peaks—by a large margin—is entirely uncontroversial. Just about anyone can name Mount Everest and K2 as the world’s tallest and …
Ukrainian Studies July 26, 2022

Making Ukraine

Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century

Olena Palko and Constantin Ardeleanu

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine's borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various …
Geography July 20, 2022

Plant Life

The Entangled Politics of Afforestation

Rosetta S. Elkin

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation (U Minnesota Press, 2022), Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including …
Geography July 15, 2022

Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean

Pedagogy, Processes and Practices

Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices (University of the West Indies Press, 2022) offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world. Lorna …
Latin American Studies July 15, 2022

Loss and Wonder at the World’s End

Laura A. Ogden

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In this podcast Laura A. Ogden, cultural anthropologist at Dartmouth College, introduces her beautifully crafted book Loss and Wonder at the World's End (Duke University Press, 2021). In Loss and Wonder at the …
Economics July 14, 2022

China's Contained Resource Curse

How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations

Vivian Jing Zhan

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Contrary to intuition, many countries have found that having abundant natural resources such as petroleum or diamonds may be a curse as much as a blessing. Broad-based economic development may …
Geography July 5, 2022

The Value of a Whale

On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

Adrienne Buller

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the …
South Asian Studies July 4, 2022

Properties of Rent

Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi

Sushmita Pati

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and …
Geography July 1, 2022

Black to Nature

Pastoral Return and African American Culture

Stefanie K. Dunning

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2021), author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn …
Geography June 30, 2022

Atlas of the Invisible

Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal …
Geography June 29, 2022

Discard Studies

Wasting, Systems, and Power

Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly …
Geography June 27, 2022

Abolition Geography

Essays Towards Liberation

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Hosted by Catriona Gold
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three decades, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso, 2022) presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and …
Literary Studies June 27, 2022

Citizens and Rulers of the World

The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire

Mahshid Mayar

Hosted by John Yargo
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, John Yargo spoke with Mahshid Mayar about how children’s puzzles and schoolbooks at the turn of the 20th century helped shape …
Sports June 21, 2022

Bondi Beach

Representations of an Iconic Australian

Douglas Booth

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Douglas Booth, Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada and Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform June 17, 2022

Coal, Cages, Crisis

The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia

Judah Schept

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in …
Geography June 17, 2022

Climate Change as Class War

Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Matthew T. Huber

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material …
Russian and Eurasian Studies June 17, 2022

Geographies of Nationhood

Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic

Catherine Gibson

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic (Oxford UP, 2022) examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as …