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My interview with Andrew Baker is out. Really enjoyed talking about his fresh takes on the histories of suburbanization, agriculture, & environmentalism in the postwar South. #envhist #aghist

We're facing the possibility of a world without coral reefs. In CORAL EMPIRE (Duke University Press), Ann Elias interrogates how we came to know coral and the complicity of this knowing with the forms of modernity that now threaten to destroy them. Elias joins us ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/ann-elias-cora…

Here's my latest podcast interview with David Biggs, an environmental historian of Vietnam. newbooksnetwork.com/david-biggs-fo… New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social)

Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades--even centuries--of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation? In FOOTPRINTS of WAR (University of Washington Press), David Biggs finds legacies of war in the soil, water, and forests. He joins Judith Butlerian Jihadi doing Gladio with Orcas ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/david-biggs-fo…

Although a seemingly natural scientific object, the idea of energy that informed the development of fossil fueled capitalism is a surprisingly modern invention. Learn more as Cara New Daggett, author of BIRTH OF ENERGY (Duke University Press), joins @lancethurner ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/cara-new-dagge…

Ellen Nerenberg has Elena Past on the podcast to talk about ITALIAN ECOCINEMA (Indiana University Press), her new 📘 that takes on a complex of issues surrounding on-location films made in #Italy and the how production leaves lasting, material traces on the environment. newbooksnetwork.com/elena-past-ita…

Known especially for Seattle's Gas Works Park, Richard Haag worked closely w/ecologists & soil scientists to develop best practices for post-industrial sites. Learn more abt THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE of RICHARD HAAG (University of Washington Press) as @nowurbanism joins us👇 newbooksnetwork.com/thaisa-way-the…

Whalers and explorers returning from the Arctic described a desolate, dangerous world, but for the Inuit, it was simply home. In DO YOU SEE ICE? (UChicagoPress) @kirimsa chronicles the 19th-century Inuit-American encounter. She joins Michael Robinson👇 newbooksnetwork.com/karen-routledg…

How do you reconcile the fact that, in a democracy, everyone’s vote is equal but everyone’s opinion is not? 🎙️Prof Michael E. Mann, Nobel Prize winner, Atmospheric Sciences professor, and author of THE HOCKEY STICK and the CLIMATE WARS joins Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/michael-e-mann…

In CARING for GLACIERS (University of Washington Press), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh. Tune in as discusses her new ethnography on the podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/karine-gagne-c…

Humans generate hundreds of millions – possibly billions – of tons of waste each year. What can be done about it? ☑️ out k's conversation with @kmoneill2530 about her new book, WASTE (Polity), a key new contribution to #DiscardStudies ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/kate-oneill-wa…

If anyone is interested in hearing me drone on about assemblages, toxicity and sensory ethnography, check out this New Books Network interpretive methods podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/sarah-marie-wi…

EVERYDAY EXPOSURE (UBC Press) author Sarah Marie Wiebe joins us for this New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science episode. Learn all about environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, “sensing policy," and Wiebe's new book project ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/sarah-marie-wi…

How can planners, municipal staff & officials, and citizens work together at the local level to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community’s greenhouse gas emissions? Listen in as Mike Boswell debriefs us on CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING (Island Press) ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/michael-r-bosw…

What a joy to talk pedagogy w/ EmilyWakild & Michelle Berry about their new book, A Primer for Teaching Environmental History. I found it super useful in revising my own #envhist course, & I think you will, too Podcast coming soon from NB Environmental Studies dukeupress.edu/a-primer-for-t…

What can millennials contribute to architecture? A lot, says Darius Sollohub. Listen in as the author of MILLENNIALS in ARCHITECTURE (University of Texas Press) explains how this generation of young disrupters is responding to a rapidly changing physical world ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/darius-sollohu…

📗 AN ECOTOPIAN LEXICON (U of MN Press) explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activist subcultures, and speculative fiction that shed light on the age of the Anthropocene. Editors Brent Ryan Bellamy & @schneidermayers join @lancethurner ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/m-schneider-ma…

Why do Americans eat so much beef? 🐮 RED MEAT REPUBLIC (Princeton University Press) shows how our diets and consumer choices remain rooted in nineteenth-century enterprises.🎙️Listen in as economic historian Josh Specht 🐂 joins Ryan Driskell Tate on the podcast ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/joshua-specht-…

Seven decades of military spending during the Cold War and War on Terror have created a vast excess of military hardware. What happens to it all? Find out as @JOziasReno, anthropologist & author of the new book MILITARY WASTE (University of California Press (is on Bluesky)) joins JD👇 newbooksnetwork.com/josh-reno-mili…

CAPITALIST PIGS (WVU Press) provides a history of pigs🐷🐽🐷 in America from their first arrival on the continent in the Columbian Exchange to the modern agribusiness of pork production. Give Carrie Helms Tippen's interview with author J.L. Anderson a listen⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/j-l-anderson-c…