New Books in Environmental Studies
Episodes
"Global Environmental Politics" Celebrates 20 Years of Success
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The journal of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) has hit a tremendous milestone in 2020—celebrating its 20 years of publication with the MIT Press...
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How might we imagine justice in times of ecological harm? How are human struggles for social justice entangled with the lives of other beings includin...
Joel E. Correia, "Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco" (U California Press, 2023)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most ex...
Brian Kateman, "Meat Me Halfway" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the solu...
Kirstin Munro, "The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households" (Bristol UP, 2023)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Kirstin Munro's book The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-C...
John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter (British Library, 2022) looks at threats to forest life across the globe. Dr. John Miller draws on literatu...
Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did the Serengeti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari? In Our Gigan...
Andrew Curley, "Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed. This comprehensive new...
The Cooperative Extension System
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Karl Dudman tells us about the Cooperative Extension System. Formed in 1914 as an extension of the Land Grant Universi...
Christopher J. Preston, "Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals" (MIT Press, 2023)
08 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, ...
Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable in the Un...
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does climate change adaptation look like in Bangladesh? And what kind of gendered social landscape does climate change adaptation have to navigat...
Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures wil...
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicl...
Sara Rich, "Mushroom" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. T...
Adam Sowards, "Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over one quarter - some 640 million acres - of the United States consists of public land owned, not privately, but by the federal government, much of ...
Adam Sowards, "Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over one quarter - some 640 million acres - of the United States consists of public land owned, not privately, but by the federal government, much of ...
Seeing Truth in the Climate Crisis
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feeling bad about the environment? You should. Artist Alexis Rockman talks about his art, the potential for real change, and his ongoing relationship ...
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, "Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions" (Routledge, 2020)
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson's book Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020) brings together...
Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more preservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And...
Seeing Truth in the Lab
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Liboiron founder of Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory talks about making better science and how they are...
Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the ecowriter, Liao Hung-chi about his oceanic and cetacean writings. The in...
Film Chat: "Whale Island" (2020)
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the film director, Huang Chia-chu about his making of the eco-film, Whale Is...
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology (Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—...
Nuclear Ghosts: Ryo Morimoto (EF, JP)
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John and Elizabeth, in this special Centennial episode of Recall this Book, explore spectral radiation with Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Ant...
Ronald L. Trosper, "Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out a...
David Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossi...
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that repre...
Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead t...
The Politics of Bicycling
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Po...
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale UP, 2021) is a multidisciplinary study of the eco...
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Mi...
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesize...
Getting to Net Zero: A Conversation with Christian Arno
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kimon and Richard speak with Christian Arno, founder and CEO of Pawprint, about how companies can effectively achieve sustainability goals. As a young...
Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Among all the world’s most storied and legend-filled regions, the place known to some over time as ‘Manchuria’ has had an especially wide range ...
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning:...
John F. Ahern, "Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandpl...
Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890 (Cambridge UP, 2022) is the first interdisciplinary history of...
“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist John Markoff has been writing about Silicon Valley for over forty years. In this interview with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel, Markoff t...
Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping" (Manchester UP, 2023)
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build greener infrastructure in the face of the global climate emergency? In Trade Winds: A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shi...
Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee....
Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Segalla’s Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 (U Nebrask...
Iza Ding, "The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China" (Cornell UP, 2022)
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance i...
J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early sev...
Corey Lee Wrenn, "Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony" (SUNY Press, 2021)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Irish vegan studies are poised for increasing relevance as climate change threatens the legitimacy and longevity of animal agriculture and widespread ...
Stephanie C. Kane, "Just One Rain Away: The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. B...
Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Human-caused climate change is real and growing in impact. Yet many Americans see climate change as a belief that they can opt out of. Two belief stru...
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more th...
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have likely seen photos of the Aral Sea, and the rusted Soviet-era ships, sitting in the desert with no water in sight. The Aral Sea is now...
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the difference between global warming and climate change? This episode explores: What led Dr. Wu into STEM, and to the study of climate chang...
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” wi...
Char Miller, "Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril" (Chin Music, 2022)
07 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A collection of 42 essays meditating on both California’s natural gifts and its natural disasters, Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Plan...
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For most of human history, the Mediterranean was home to a significant number of pastoralists, who herded livestock along seasonal migratory routes. T...
Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered mat...
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against a...
Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In far northeastern Alaska lies one of the most remarkable, and contested, places in North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This coastal...
The ‘Domino Effect’: Global and Regional Climate Change Impacts on Food Supply Chains
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a complex relationship between climate change and food systems. Food supply chains – in particular food transportation – result in global...
Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier i...
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (U California Press, 2022), anthropologis...
Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Th...
Cynthia Radding, "Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustena...
Off-Shore Aesthetics
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sritama Chatterjee talks about a model of literary criticism that she developed in the process of writing her new essay on shipbreaking in Banglades...
Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental ...
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it is that the world is bound together by shared challenges—and that at the center of those challenges ...
What Went Wrong in the 1970s in the USA?: A Discussion with Bill McKibben
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of How To Be Wrong we talk with author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben, founder of Third Act, an organization focused ...
Sarah Milne, "Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. Tragi...
Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. In No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a ...
Prakash Kashwan, "Climate Justice in India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prakash Kashwan's edited volume Climate Justice in India (Cambridge UP, 2022) brings together a collective of academics, activists, and artists to p...
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Palm oil is a commodity like no other. Found in half of supermarket products, from food to cosmetics to plastics, it has shaped the world in which we ...
Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On September 9, 1921, a tropical storm raged above San Antonio, Texas. The rain that night flooded the city's many waterways, distributing unequal de...
Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2021) ...
Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bess is the Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His fifth and most recent book is Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four...
Sally Weintrobe et al., "Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022) offers ways to work with the unthinkable and emotionally unendurable ...
Kasia Paprocki, "Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh" (Cornell UP, 2021)
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (Cornell UP, 2021), Kasia Paprocki challenges two well-worn...
Public Participation and Contested Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Regional demand for renewable hydropower from the Mekong River and its tributaries in Laos is on the rise. In June 2022, Laos exported one hundred meg...
Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it so difficult to adopt a more sustainable way of life, even when convinced of the urgency of the environmental crisis? If adopting new behavi...
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside...
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Lit...
Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. ...
Towards a Green China
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the concept of ecological civilisation mean in practice? And how can we understand the relationship between grand visions, legal systems, gr...
Towards a Green China
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the concept of ecological civilisation mean in practice? And how can we understand the relationship between grand visions, legal systems, gr...
Jennifer Eaglin, "Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and afforda...
David McDermott Hughes, "Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity" (Duke UP, 2017)
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate c...
Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Aquaman and the War against Oceans (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), Ryan Poll explores ways the New 52 reimagining of Aquaman--a massive ove...
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the implications of climate change for twenty-first-century conflict and security? Rising temperatures, it is often said, will bring increase...
Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe. Reading literature in a time of ...
Sustainable Peatland Management and Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Indonesian citizens, and those of neighbouring Southeast Asian countries, have long suffered recurring haze pollution caused by peatland fires in Indo...
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship bet...
Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a S...
Sarah T. Hines, "Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia" (U California Press, 2021)
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivian...
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian thi...
Andreas Malm, "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (Verso, 2021)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and p...
Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Caspian Sea region has hitherto largely been investigated from a New Great Game' perspective that depicts the region as a geopolitical battlegro...
John Suval, "Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The squatter—defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"—had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the ...
Julie Sze, "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger" (U California Press, 2020)
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political m...
Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“We’ll compete with confidence; we’ll cooperate wherever we can; we’ll contest where we must.” That’s the new China strategy as outlined b...
Rafico Ruiz, "Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier" (Duke UP, 2021)
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, crea...
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world’s largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron. Within years...
Robyn D'Avignon, "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa" (Duke UP, 2022)
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, 2022), Robyn d’Avignon, Assistant Professor of...
Saheed Aderinto, "Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria" (Ohio UP, 2022)
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With this multispecies study of animals as instrumentalities of the colonial state in Nigeria, Saheed Aderinto argues that animals, like humans, were ...