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Environmental Studies
Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.
November 27, 2024
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies: Lessons Fro…
November 26, 2024
Slow Wood
In Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests (Yale UP, 2024), environmental historian Brian Donahue advances a radical proposal for healing the r…
November 23, 2024
Negative Life
In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay enact a dialogue between cinema, philoso…
November 21, 2024
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing th…
November 8, 2024
Landing the Paris Climate Agreement
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 201…
November 2, 2024
Crude Capitalism
Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer…
November 1, 2024
Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
"Climate change is the biggest crisis of humankind. We can’t watch other people drive our future right against the wall.” This is a quote by Luisa Ne…
October 29, 2024
Unseasonable
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the d…
October 26, 2024
Beekeeping in the End Times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ange…
October 25, 2024
Atmospheric Violence
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed c…
October 21, 2024
Sea Level
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and c…
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …
October 17, 2024
Liquid Empire
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These…
October 14, 2024
Lightning Birds
Today we present the first episode of Jacob Smith’s new eco-critical audiobook, Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves. In this audio-only bo…
October 10, 2024
The Land Is Our Community
Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is …
October 9, 2024
Charging Forward
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health condition…
October 9, 2024
On the Swamp
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwor…
October 6, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…
September 29, 2024
The Green Ages
Annette Kehnel joins Jana Byars to talk about The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (Brandeis University Press, 2024). A fascinating …
September 29, 2024
Bicycle
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle prom…