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Indian Ocean World May 27, 2023

Cargoes in Motion

Materiality and Connectivity Across the Indian Ocean

Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity Across the Indian Ocean (Ohio University Press, 2022) is an innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and …

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General History May 27, 2023

The West

A New History of an Old Idea

Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Dr. Naoíse Mac Sweeney presents a radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives in her …
Geography May 24, 2023

Over Researched Places

Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach

Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken's Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on …
American West May 23, 2023

Resisting Change in Suburbia

Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.

James Zarsadiaz

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The myth of the frontier West found its home in America's late twentieth century suburbs, argues University of San Francisco associate professor James Zarsadiaz in Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and …
Environmental Studies May 23, 2023

Sea Change

An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

Christina Gerhardt

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (U California Press …
American West May 22, 2023

Arid Empire

The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia

Natalie Koch

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the Middle East. For example: In 1856, a caravan …
Madison's Notes May 21, 2023

The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit

A Conversation with Ian Morris

Ian Morris

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
How did Britain become a global superpower? Historian and classicist Ian Morris thinks geography has a lot to do with it. Prof. Morris discusses his latest book, Geography is Destiny …
Environmental Studies May 19, 2023

The Octopus in the Parking Garage

A Call for Climate Resilience

Rob Verchick

Hosted by Karyne Messina
One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex’s parking garage: an octopus. The image quickly went viral. But the octopus―and the combination of …
Human Rights May 12, 2023

Power on the Move

Adivasi and Roma Accessing Social Justice

Cristina-Ioana Dragomir

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
Throughout centuries of persecution and marginalization, the Roma and Adivasi have been viewed as both victims and fighters, as royals and paupers, beasts and gods, and lately have been challenging …
Geography May 10, 2023

Carbon Colonialism

How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown

Laurie Parsons

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. Laurie Parsons's book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown (Manchester UP, 2023) opens our eyes.  Around the world …
LGBTQ+ Studies May 7, 2023

Fire Island

A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

Jack Parlett

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene
A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off …
American West May 2, 2023

Valley of Heart's Delight

Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley

Anne Marie Todd

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In …
MIT Press Podcast April 29, 2023

Spatial Computing

Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold

Hosted by MIT Press
Shashi Shekhar and Pamela Vold, authors of Spatial Computing, from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, discuss the reach, risks and importance of spatial computing in confronting COVID-19.  An accessible guide …
Geography April 24, 2023

Disrupting the Patrón

Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco

Joel E. Correia

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous …
Geography April 22, 2023

Slow Disaster

Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam

Mitul Baruah

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Mitul Baruah's Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam (Routledge, 2022) presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living …
African American Studies April 22, 2023

Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration

The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate

Thomas Aiello

Hosted by James West
In this episode, Thomas Aiello joins E. James West to discuss Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate (University of Georgia Press, 2023).  Building on his …
Anthropology April 18, 2023

In the Shadow of Tungurahua

Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

A. J. Faas

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador (Rutgers University Press, 2023) relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around …
Geography April 12, 2023

The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households

Compromise, Conflict, Complicity

Kirstin Munro

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Kirstin Munro's book The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households (Bristol UP, 2023) describes what happens when people make interventions …
Irish Studies March 29, 2023

Dindshenchas Érenn

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
The purpose of the present volume, Dindshenchas Érenn (U College Cork, 2022), is to provide an accessible overview and entry into the complex literary creation known as Dindshenchas Érenn ‘History of …
African American Studies March 21, 2023

Driving the Green Book

A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

Alvin Hall

Hosted by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent …