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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
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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 …
Geography
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Interviews with geographers about their new books.
Anthropology
August 3, 2022
Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity
Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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