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About Lance Thurner
Lance C. Thurner teaches history at Rutgers Newark. His research and writing address the production of knowledge, political subjectivities, and racial and national identities in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico. He can be reached at lancet@rutgers.edu.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lance:
August 21, 2020
Destination Anthropocene
Despite being a minor contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, like many other small island nations, The Bahamas’s ecology and society are espe…
August 17, 2020
Bring the World to the Child
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, boosters of digital educational technologies emphasized that these platforms are vital tools for cultivating global…
August 14, 2020
The Good Drone
The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (MIT Press), by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, demonstrates that this technology – which is mo…
July 6, 2020
Mining Language
Historians of Latin America have long appreciated the central role of mining and metallurgy in the region. The Spanish Empire in particular was create…
January 6, 2020
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
Latin America – especially colonial Latin America – is not particularly known for futurism. For popular audiences, the region’s history likely evokes …
December 27, 2019
An Ecotopian Lexicon
By choice or not, the catastrophes of global warming and mass extinction task young generations with reorienting human relationships with the earth’s …
November 4, 2019
The Birth of Energy
In The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Duke University Press, 2019), Cara New Daggett suggests that reassessi…
October 24, 2019
Coral Empire
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human indu…
October 15, 2019
Allegories of the Anthropocene
While the mainstream discourses on global warming characterize it as an unprecedented catastrophe that unites the globe in a common challenge, Elizabe…
September 10, 2019
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Also listen to my …
August 27, 2019
Ecologics
This is the first of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke University Pr…
June 28, 2019
Infrastructures of Race
Daniel Nemser’s Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017) examines the long history …
June 24, 2019
Enlightened Immunity
Paul Ramírez’s first book explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final d…
June 17, 2019
Divine Variations
We often think of scientific racism as a pseudo-science of a bygone age, yet in both academic population genetics and popular ancestry testing, the sp…
May 24, 2019
Spaceship in the Desert
Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspires no shortage of techno-utopian visions of human s…
April 4, 2019
The Ethnobotany of Eden
Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil. In the US, what was once the province of counter culture has moved square…
March 12, 2019
Carbon
The crisis of global warming overwhelms the imagination with its urgency, yet more than ever we need patient, clear-sighted. and careful assessments o…
January 8, 2019
Documenting Aftermath
Megan Finn's Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters (MIT Press, 2018) is a fascinating examination of how informa…
December 19, 2018
Difference and Disease
Suman Seth's new book Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018) provides a …
December 6, 2018
Artisanal Enlightenment
Paola Bertucci's Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France (Yale University Press, 2017) is an innovative new look…
December 3, 2018
Urgency in the Anthropocene
Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland’s Urgency in the Anthropocene (MIT Press, 2018) is a fascinating and trenchant analysis of the core beliefs and ideas tha…
October 22, 2018
Assembling the Tropics
Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Hugh Cagle is an exciting analysis …
October 3, 2018
Frontiers of Science
Cameron Strang’s Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (University of North Carolina Press,…
August 2, 2018
Virtuous Waters
Water politics have long figured prominently in Mexico, and scholars have addressed such critical topics as irrigation, dam and canal building, and re…