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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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …