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Geography May 16, 2022

Pipeline Populism

Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Kai Bosworth

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also …

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Asian Review of Books May 12, 2022

Troubling the Water

A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia

Abby Seiff

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Tonlé Sap is one of Southeast Asia’s, if not one of the world’s, natural wonders. Between the dry and wet seasons, the lake expands almost six times in size to …
Environmental Studies May 10, 2022

Partial Hegemony

Oil Politics and International Order

Jeff D. Colgan

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of wealth across borders in all of human history began with the oil crisis of 1973. OPEC countries turned …
Environmental Studies May 9, 2022

Unsettling Nature

Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination

Taylor Eggan

Hosted by Matthew Brown
In today's NBN Environmental Studies interview, dancer, performer, and literary scholar Dr. Taylor Eggan joins us to speak about his new book Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and Settler Colonial Imagination …
Geography May 5, 2022

Building Something Better

Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change

Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast May 4, 2022

Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment

Pandemic Perspectives 9

Charles Foster

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law professor Charles Foster on how the coronavirus pandemic reveals …
Environmental Studies May 3, 2022

The Long Land War

The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

Jo Guldi

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth …
Anthropology April 29, 2022

Building on Borrowed Time

Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang

Lukas Ley

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a relevant and powerful ethnography …
Geography April 29, 2022

Adrift

The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea

Tracey Williams

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly …
Finance April 28, 2022

Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing

How to Live your Values and Achieve your Financial Goals with ESG, SRI, and Impact Investing

Larry E. Swedroe and Samuel C. Adams

Hosted by John Emrich
The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them …
Critical Theory April 27, 2022

Planetary Longings

Mary Louise Pratt

Hosted by Louisa Hann
In Planetary Longings (Duke UP, 2022), eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point …
Environmental Studies April 22, 2022

Rivers of the Sultan

The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire

Faisal H. Husain

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Rivers of the Sultan offers a history of the Ottoman Empire's management of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the early modern period. During the early sixteenth century, a radical …
Environmental Studies April 19, 2022

No Standard Oil

Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World

Deborah Gordon

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a …
Science, Technology, and Society April 18, 2022

Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes

Jeff Sebo

Hosted by Austin Clyde
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 18, 2022

Merging the Local with the Global

A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate

Farhana Shukor

Hosted by Quynh Le Vo
In the past few years, youth-led groups such as the Fridays for Future school strike movement have changed the face of climate activism globally. In this interview, Malaysian youth climate …
General History April 15, 2022

Black Earth, White Bread

A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food

Susanne A. Wengle

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022), Dr. Susanne A. Wengle shows how agrotechnology served—and undermined—Soviet and Russian political …
Environmental Studies April 13, 2022

Timescales

Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities

Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff, and Patricia Eunji Kim

Hosted by Matthew Brown
Time cannot be measured in so many coffee spoons, or that is what editors, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Dr. Carolyn Fornoff, and Dr. Patricia Eunji Kim argue in Timescales: Thinking Across …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast April 13, 2022

COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding

Pandemic Perspectives 6

John Dunn

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned University of Cambridge political theorist John Dunn about what the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about our …
Environmental Studies April 13, 2022

Wild by Design

The Rise of Ecological Restoration

Laura J. Martin

Hosted by Kathryn (Kate) Carpenter
Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands …
High Theory April 13, 2022

Ecosphere

A Discussion with John Linstrom

John Linstrom

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
John Linstrom talks about the ecosphere, a way of understanding the world deriving principally from the work of ecologist and philosopher Stan Rowe. We also refer briefly to James Lovelock’s …