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Environmental Studies
Interviews with scholars of the environment about their new books.
May 12, 2024
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to dis…
May 11, 2024
A Road Running Southward
In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Ken…
May 6, 2024
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MC Forelle, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Society at the School of Engineering and Applied Scien…
May 5, 2024
Terracene
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside …
May 3, 2024
Behind the Privet Hedge
Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely admired and copied across the world. But it is litt…
May 1, 2024
Brand Antarctica
Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stori…
April 28, 2024
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential …
April 26, 2024
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
Imagine an environmentalist. Are you picturing a Birkenstock-clad hippie? An office worker who hikes on weekends? A political lobbyist? What about a m…
April 21, 2024
Settler Ecologies
Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya (University of Toronto Press, 2024) tells the story of how settler colonialism …
April 18, 2024
Questioning Borders
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomad…
April 16, 2024
Mourning in the Anthropocene
Enormous ecological losses and profound planetary transformations mean that ours is a time to grieve beyond the human. Yet, Joshua Trey Barnett argues…
April 3, 2024
No More Fossils
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year …
April 2, 2024
The Limits
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polyn…
March 29, 2024
India’s Waste Problem
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solutions the way forward? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nie…
March 26, 2024
Shopping All the Way to the Woods
Rachel S. Gross's Shopping All the Ways to the Woods (Yale University Press, 2024) tells the fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the Amer…
March 23, 2024
Empirical Ecocriticism
There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; howe…
March 19, 2024
Spinning Out
Charlie Hertzog Young became a climate activist in his early teens. His journey led him onto airport runways and into the halls of power, but also to …
March 16, 2024
Climate Change and International History
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Gl…
March 13, 2024
Catastrophe Ethics
In a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level …
March 12, 2024
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members …