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About Stentor Danielson
NBN Episodes hosted by Stentor:
January 18, 2026
Carbon Colonialism
Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. Laurie Parsons's book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate …
January 17, 2026
Unnatural Disasters
Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed (Columbia UP, 2021) offers a new perspective on our most pres…
January 12, 2026
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…
November 30, 2025
Breathing Aesthetics
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in…
November 23, 2025
Antarcticness
Ilan Kelman's book Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022) joins disciplines, communication approaches, and ideas to explore mea…
November 8, 2025
Cities in the Anthropocene
Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, an…
September 30, 2025
Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins
The structural and symbolic purposes of ruins in literary texts have a long history, yet few scholars explore their importance within J. R. R. Tolkien…
September 20, 2025
Pandemic Policies and Resistance
Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Fe…
September 8, 2025
The Ideal River
Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmen…
July 26, 2025
The Frontier Effect
In The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia (Cornell UP, 2020), Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the c…
April 27, 2025
Somatic States
In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and…
March 23, 2025
Slick
A riveting expose of the global oil industry' s multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australia…
March 19, 2025
The Language of Climate Politics
The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of our…
March 8, 2025
The Map in the Machine
Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, w…
March 2, 2025
Turning to Stone
Today I talked to Marcia Bjornerud about Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Flatiron Books, 2024). Rocks are the record of our…
February 9, 2025
Insurgent Ecologies
We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a soc…
February 3, 2025
The California Sky Watcher
Often stereotyped as the land of unflaggingly perfect weather, California has a world-renowned reputation for sunny blue skies and infinitely even-kee…
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 12, 2024
Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth
The 13 essays collected in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium (Mythopoeic Press, 2024) foregr…
August 8, 2024
City Steps of Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest c…
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 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…
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…