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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 33 days 9 hours 32 minutes
episode 44: Dolly Kikon, "Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Kikon offers a rich account of life in the midst of a landscape defined by multiple overlapping extractive industries and plantation economies...
episode 559: Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean" (U New South Wales Press, 2018)
McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...
episode 20: Kenneth Olwig, "The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice" (Routledge, 2019)
Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective...
episode 205: Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, "Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...
episode 99: Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...
episode 204: Dominic Boyer, "Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....
episode 39: Erik Loomis, "Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Loomis examines the relationship between workers and their environments in this century-long history of timber workers in the Pacific Northwest...
episode 203: Cymene Howe, "Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2019)
Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...
episode 39: Michael Kodas, "Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...
episode 19: Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha, "Cultural Landscapes of South Asia : Studies in Heritage Conservation, and Management" (Routledge, 2017)
South Asian architecture and landscapes are not as well known in the western design schools...