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Environmental Studies
Architecture March 20, 2023

Climate Justice and Community Renewal

Resistance and Grassroots Solutions

Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson's book Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020) brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research …

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Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.

Indian Religions March 16, 2023

The Nature of Endangerment in India

Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020

Ezra Rashkow

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more preservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of …
Why We Argue March 9, 2023

Seeing Truth in the Lab

A Conversation with Professor Max Liboiron on Taking Control and Leveraging Science for Justice

Max Liboiron

Hosted by Alexis Boylan
Max Liboiron founder of Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory talks about making better science and how they aren’t interested in dismantling the masters house (because who cares …
Taiwan on Air March 9, 2023

Book Chat: Oceanic Writing

A Discussion with Liao Hung-chi

Liao Hung-chi

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the ecowriter, Liao Hung-chi about his oceanic and cetacean writings. The interview covers the writer's view on the …
Taiwan on Air March 8, 2023

Whale Island

A Discussion with Director Huang Chia-chu

Huang Chia-chu

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the film director, Huang Chia-chu about his making of the eco-film, Whale Island (2020). The interview covers the …
Environmental Studies March 5, 2023

Flooded Pasts

UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology

William Carruthers

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show …
Recall This Book March 2, 2023

Nuclear Ghosts

A Discussion with Ryo Morimoto

Ryo Morimoto

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
John and Elizabeth, in this special Centennial episode of Recall this Book, explore spectral radiation with Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His new book Nuclear Ghost …
Geography March 1, 2023

Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

Ronald L. Trosper

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among …
Environmental Studies February 21, 2023

Negative Ecologies

Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment

David Bond

Hosted by Cody Skahan
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the …
Environmental Studies February 20, 2023

US History in 15 Foods

Anna Zeide

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in …
Scholarly Communication February 18, 2023

Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage

Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead the way into a future that proactively …
Peoples & Things February 16, 2023

The Politics of Bicycling

A Conversation with Zack Furness

Zack Furness

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility (Temple University Press), with Peoples …
Chinese Studies February 15, 2023

The King's Harvest

A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

Brian Lander

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale UP, 2021) is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China's early political systems up to …
Geography February 15, 2023

Hydronarratives

Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

Matthew S. Henry

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and …
Environmental Studies February 14, 2023

Palo Alto

A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership February 13, 2023

Getting to Net Zero

A Conversation with Christian Arno

Christian Arno

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Kimon and Richard speak with Christian Arno, founder and CEO of Pawprint, about how companies can effectively achieve sustainability goals. As a young child growing up in Aberdeen, Christian was …
East Asian Studies February 10, 2023

Knowing Manchuria

Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland

Ruth Rogaski

Hosted by Ed Pulford
Among all the world’s most storied and legend-filled regions, the place known to some over time as ‘Manchuria’ has had an especially wide range of ideas projected onto it. Everyone …
Architecture February 8, 2023

Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands

Jack Ahern

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs …
Peoples & Things February 8, 2023

How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires

A Discussion with Katherine Blunt

Katherine Blunt

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What …
Peoples & Things February 7, 2023

“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand

A Discussion with John Markoff

John Markoff

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff talks about his long career, how …