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Geography
June 20, 2017
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
Neil M. Maher
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
In the summer of 1969, two seminal events of the sixties happened within a few weeks of each other: the first man walked on the moon and the Woodstock music …
Geography
February 4, 2017
Houston, We Have a Narrative
Why Science Needs Story
Randy Olson
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
Randy Olson, author of Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story (University of Chicago Press, 2015), has an unusual background. He is a Harvard-trained biologist and former tenured …
Geography
January 10, 2017
Behind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
Joshua Howe
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record, and in recent months, drought and searing heat have fanned wildfires in Fort McMurray Alberta and in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Meanwhile, the …
Geography
December 3, 2015
Capitalism in the Web of Life
Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Jason W. Moore
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Robert Wilson
In Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), author Jason W. Moore seeks to undermine popular understandings of the relationship among society, environment …
Geography
June 10, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, and James McCarthy, eds.
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
Political ecology is among the most vibrant sub-fields in the discipline of geography. Since the field first developed in the 1980s, political ecologists have pioneered new approaches to studying relations …
Geography
May 11, 2015
Seeing Green
The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Finis Dunaway
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
Oil-soaked birds in Prince William Sound. The "crying Indian" in a 1970s anti-littering ad. A lonely polar bear on an Arctic ice floe. Such environmental images have proliferated over the …
Geography
March 11, 2015
Evolutionary History
Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth
Edmund Russell
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Robert Wilson
Evolution is among the most powerful ideas in the natural sciences. Indeed, the evolutionary theorist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously said nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution …
Geography
January 30, 2015
Mastering Iron (U of Chicago Press, 2013) and Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2014)
Anne Knowles
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
Last month on New Books in Geography, historian Susan Schulten discussed the development of thematic maps in the nineteenth century. Such maps focused on a particular topic such as disease …
Geography
December 12, 2014
Mapping the Nation
History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
Susan Schulten
Hosted by
Robert Wilson
Our everyday lives are saturated with maps. We use maps on our smart phones to help us navigate from place to place. Maps in the newspaper and online show us …
Geography
October 17, 2014
Lifeblood
Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
Matthew Huber
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Robert Wilson
Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) is an incisive look into how oil permeates our lives and helped shape American politics during the …