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A Digital Magazine from the Center for Culture, History, and Environment

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Rebecca Laurent talks with Jim Endersby about his new book: The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935. They discuss how a failed scientific theory inspired public optimism for science, plants, and American imperialism.

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Trish Fisher talks with Sonja Trom Eayrs about her new book: Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America. They discuss factory farming, political intimidation, and the corporate transformation of rural America.

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Kayleigh Lobdell speaks with authors Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder about each of their recent books about human and beyond-human mothering in this political and ecological moment.

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Ellie Kincaid and M Hamilton Wilson talk with Cleo Wölfle Hazard about his recent book, Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice.

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Jim Endersby
Professor of the History of Science, University of Sussex
University of Sussex
Episode: Botanical Imaginations: Jim Endersby on Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science
Sonja Trom Eayrs
Author, attorney, and rural activist who grew up on a family farm in Dodge County, Minnesota
Author of Dodge County, Incorporated, Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America
Episode: The “Big Pig Pyramid” and the Undoing of Rural America: A Conversation with Sonja Trom Eayrs
Jennifer Case
Author of The Care Work Project; writer and scholar associated with the book We Are Animals
University of Central Arkansas
Episode: Mothering in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Author of Mother, Creature, Kin; former staff writer/editor for Emergence Magazine
Emergence Magazine
Episode: Mothering in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Cleo Wölfle Hazard
Activist, artist, and feminist study scholar focusing on ecological and social dimensions of human relations to rivers and their more-than-human inhabitants
Author of Underflows, Queer Trans Ecology and River Justice
Episode: Trans Joy and Indigenous Resistance on the River: A Conversation with Cleo Wölfle Hazard
Alexander Menrisky
Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and author of Everyday Ecofascism
University of Connecticut
Episode: American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky
Brenda Becette
Argentinian short story author and the winner of the City and Nature Jose Emilio Pacheco Literary Prize
Episode: Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette
Jeff Spitz
Documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Cinema and TV Arts
Columbia College, Chicago
Episode: THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY, 25 Years Later: A Conversation with Jeff Spitz
Sunaura Taylor
Artist, writer, and assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley
Episode: Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor

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    As a vegan librarian I am always interested in hearing voices that introduce new ideas and perspectives. This podcast is not only enlightening but inspires me to be better. The diversity among guests is fantastic.

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    United States8 years ago
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    United States8 years ago
  • Makes me think

    Edge Effects always has something I wouldn’t normally think about. It takes me to coloring outside the lines.

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    Kafkakat
    United States8 years ago
  • This is a great podcast

    I always learn so much. Wow, what great editing. This is better than college. Thank you!!

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    Paix607
    United States9 years ago

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Botanical Imaginations: Jim Endersby on Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science
Q: How do you see Biotopia shaping contemporary thinking about biology and technology?
Biotopia acts as a persistent, optimization-driven vision that imagines mastering nature through biology, which continues to influence how companies market genetic engineering and how societies imagine the future of food, medicine, and environment.
Botanical Imaginations: Jim Endersby on Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science
Q: What drew you to study the broader cultural reach of mutation theory beyond the laboratory?
I wanted to understand how science escapes the gatekeepers and enters everyday life through media, education, and fiction, revealing how people interpret, repurpose, and mythologize scientific ideas in different social contexts.
Botanical Imaginations: Jim Endersby on Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science
Q: For those who haven't read your book, could you summarize what mutation theory is and why it mattered in its time?
Mutation theory proposed that new species could arise through sudden, abrupt changes rather than only gradual variation, and it captured public imagination by offering simple, dramatic explanations of evolution that people could grasp, influencing science fiction, politics, and popular culture long before modern genetics solidified in mainstream science.
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky
Q: How do we distinguish between eco-friendly narratives and ecofascistic thinking?
We must recognize the depth of narratives that impact environmentalism and critically engage with them.
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky
Q: What's your book about and what did you hope to achieve by writing it?
The book discusses ecofascism as a phenomenon shaped by cultural narratives rather than just a far-right ideology.

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