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Geography September 28, 2022

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore

Abigail Perkiss

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012, the residents of Monmouth, Ocean, and Atlantic Counties faced an enormous and pressing question: What to do? The stories captured in this …

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Critical Theory September 26, 2022

The Quantified Scholar

How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (Columbia UP, 2022), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, an Associate Professor in …
Japanese Studies September 23, 2022

The Japanese Buddhist World Map

Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination

David Max Moerman

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. Expansively illustrated with multiple maps and illustrations …
East Asian Studies September 21, 2022

The Concrete Plateau

Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine

Andrew Grant

Hosted by Palden Gyal
In The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (Cornell UP, 2022), Grant examines how China’s urban development policies of frontier cities like Xining (Tib. zi ling) accompanied …
Geography September 16, 2022

Loving Orphaned Space

The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth

Mrill Ingram

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
How we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces—from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways—are created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space …
Writ Large September 9, 2022

On Maciej Miechowita's "Treatise on the Two Sarmatias"

A Discussion with Michael Tworek

Michael Tworek

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In Treatise on the Two Sarmatias, Polish scholar Maciej Miechowita argued that two mountain ranges that were described on maps dating back to antiquity did not, in fact, exist. This …
Economics September 5, 2022

Text as Data

A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences

Justin Grimmer, Brandon M. Stewart, and Margaret E. Roberts

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
From social media posts and text messages to digital government documents and archives, researchers are bombarded with a deluge of text reflecting the social world. This textual data gives unprecedented …
Geography September 2, 2022

Borderland

Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England

Phil Hubbard

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on …
Latin American Studies August 26, 2022

Nationalizing Nature

Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border

Frederico Freitas

Hosted by Elena McGrath
In Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border (Cambridge UP, 2021), Frederico Freitas uncovers the crucial role played by conservation in the region’s territorial development by exploring how …
Anthropology August 26, 2022

Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Capital and State Building in the West Bank

Kareem Rabie

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …