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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 33 days 9 hours 32 minutes
episode 45: Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...
episode 43: Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Baker focuses his gaze on the rural counties that underwent significant social, cultural, political, and environmental change as southern cities expanded after World War II...
episode 40: David D. Vail, "Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945" (U Alabama Press, 2019)
Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...
episode 218: Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...
episode 626: Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975" (UNC Press, 2018)
How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?
episode 216: Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2019)
In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...
episode 46: Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
In this episode of the podcast Don and Alex talk about Papua New Guinea, where they have both done research...
episode 24: Stephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Experimental City" (Routledge, 2019)
Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore...
episode 41: Nancy Langston, "Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World" (Yale UP, 2017)
Lake Superior has experienced substantial environmental change—including today’s impressive but incomplete ecological recovery—in its existence, especially over the last 150 year...
episode 40: Timothy LeCain, "The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...