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Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.
April 18, 2024
Questioning Borders
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomad…
April 16, 2024
Mourning in the Anthropocene
Enormous ecological losses and profound planetary transformations mean that ours is a time to grieve beyond the human. Yet, Joshua Trey Barnett argues…
April 3, 2024
No More Fossils
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year …
April 2, 2024
The Limits
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polyn…
March 29, 2024
India’s Waste Problem
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nie…
March 26, 2024
Shopping All the Way to the Woods
Rachel S. Gross's Shopping All the Ways to the Woods (Yale University Press, 2024) tells the fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the Amer…
March 23, 2024
Empirical Ecocriticism
There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; howe…
March 19, 2024
Spinning Out
Charlie Hertzog Young became a climate activist in his early teens. His journey led him onto airport runways and into the halls of power, but also to …
March 16, 2024
Climate Change and International History
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Gl…
March 13, 2024
Catastrophe Ethics
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level …
March 12, 2024
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members …
March 12, 2024
Forests of Refuge
Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield (U California Press, 2024) questions the effectiveness of mark…
March 11, 2024
Critical Campus Sustainabilities
In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envir…
March 9, 2024
Flint Fights Back
Originally published in 2019, Benjamin Pauli’s book, Flint Fights Back offers lasting insights into one of the most important drinking water-caused pu…
March 8, 2024
Air Conditioning
Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, menta…
March 8, 2024
The Taste of Water
Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage …
March 4, 2024
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
Cristina Brito's book Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa (Amsterdam University Press, 2024) deals with peoples' practices, …
February 28, 2024
Immeasurable Weather
In Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy (Duke UP, 2023), Sara J. Grossman explores how envir…
February 27, 2024
The Taste of Water
After WAY too long a hiatus, Peoples & Things is back! GET EXCITED!! In this episode, host Lee Vinsel interviews Christy Spackman, Assistant Professor…
February 13, 2024
How to Confront Climate Denial
Climate change and climate denial have remained largely off the radar in literacy and social studies education in the United States. How to Confront C…