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Geography January 17, 2022

Toward Camden

Mercy Romero

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Toward Camden (Duke UP, 2021), Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where …

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General History December 22, 2021

Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti, and Filipe Dos Reis

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Luis Lobo-Guerrero is one of the three editors of this volume—Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)—and one of the six contributing authors. He wrote the …
American South December 8, 2021

Southern Journey

The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020

Edward L. Ayers

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the …
East Asian Studies December 24, 2021

Diaspora’s Homeland

Modern China in the Age of Global Migration

Shelly Chan

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) by Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than …
Geography December 2, 2021

Transecting Securityscapes

Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique

Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway

Hosted by Catriona Gold
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (University of Georgia Press, 2021) …
Geography November 30, 2021

The Sixteen-Dollar Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigrants and people of color. What does a …
Geography November 15, 2021

Climate Ghosts

Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

Nancy Langston

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In her new book Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene (Brandeis UP, 2021), environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon …
Latino Studies November 10, 2021

Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas

Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect

Michelle Téllez

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement …
Philosophy November 10, 2021

Living as a Bird

Vinciane Despret

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Birds sing to set up a territory, but the relationships between the bird, the song, the territory, and the bird’s community are highly complex and individually variable. In Living as …
East Asian Studies November 5, 2021

Remapping the Contested Sinosphere

The Cross-Cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan

Chia-Rong Wu

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
In the past four hundred years, the cultural position of Taiwan has been undergoing a series of drastic changes due to constant political turmoil. From the early seventeenth century to …
Systems and Cybernetics November 3, 2021

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Bernard Scott

Hosted by Tom Scholte
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to receive the critical …
Geography November 2, 2021

The Smell of Risk

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

Hsuan L. Hsu

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for …
Architecture October 28, 2021

Empty Spaces

Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History

Jennifer Keating, Courtney J. Campbell, and Allegra Giovine

Hosted by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …