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Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China

What happens to the environment when the state enters previously self-governed villages in rural China? We explore this question in the Blang mountains in southwestern China, a region that was incorporated into the nascent people’s republic of China ... more

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Charles G. Curtin, "Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis" (JHU Press, 2026)

Place-Based Solutions (JHU Press, 2026) offers a bold and practical response, charting a path toward what Charles G. Curtin calls "prosilience"—the capacity not just to endure crises, but to leap forward through them. With over thirty years of collab... more

19 Mar 2026 • 46 min

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late" (Verso Books, 2025)

A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries... more

18 Mar 2026 • 52 min

Joseph Weiss, "Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada" (UNC Press, 2026)

Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous Nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, government commissions, rebranding campaigns for settler-owned businesses, workshops for state and local of... more

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Marianna Dudley

Environmental historian

University of Bristol

Episode: Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

Li Cheng

Author of Contested Environmentalisms, Trees and the Making of Modern China

Carnegie Mellon University

Episode: Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Selina Nwulu

Author of Black Climates, poet

Chatto & Windus (publisher)

Episode: Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)

George Frazier

Author of Riverine Dreams, Assistant Professor of Computer Information Sciences at Washburn University

Washburn University

Episode: George Frazier, "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Geoffrey Jones

Isidore Strauss Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School; co-editor of the volume

Harvard Business School

Episode: Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Sabine Pitteloud

Assistant Professor at Uni Distance Suisse; co-editor of the volume

University of Distance Education (Switzerland)

Episode: Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Ozan Zeybek

Author of Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence, Shared Struggles in Turkey

Palgrave Macmillan / Academic researcher

Episode: Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Christiane Tristl

Economic geographer researching big tech, water, and development

University background as described in the episode

Episode: Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)

Nicholas Beuret

Author of Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition

Verso Books

Episode: Nicholas Beuret, "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" (Verso, 2025)

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 70 ratings

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As an environmental social scientist, this series is a great way to keep up with the literature. A lot of coverage of the more critical theoretical side of the field, but that reflects monograph publishing.
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Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Q: Could you give an overview of how animals are involved in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and why you center animals in this analysis?

The book examines multiple episodes in recent Turkish history, integrating animals into the narrative to challenge traditional human-centered accounts and to show how violence against animals accompanies violence against people, while also exploring how animals experience war and political change.

Cheng Li, "Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Q: Can you share with us how you assemble and work across this heterogeneous material?

The guest explains that the book blends environmental history, literary studies, film, and digital media, using archival documents, newspapers, films, and even contemporary platforms like Ant Forest to build a cross-disciplinary, historically grounded argument about the multiple forms and debates within environmentalisms in China.

Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Q: What historical moments or episodes best illustrate how multinational expansion can suddenly change or reshape dynamics, and what factors drove those shifts?

Examples like the Chinese context show abrupt shifts: pre-1949 inward investment disappears after the Communist Revolution, followed by a Deng-era reopening and a renewed outward and inward multinational presence; these episodes illustrate how policy, politics, and regime change can abruptly reshape multinational activity.

Geoffrey Jones and Sabine Pitteloud eds., "The Cambridge Companion to the History of Multinationals and Society" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Q: In the introduction, why did you feel this was the right moment for a large volume on the topic, and what gap were you trying to fill?

We believed it was urgent to capture a surge of new research since Miriam Wilkins and to present a nuanced, society-centered portrait of multinationals that goes beyond firm-focused strategies, incorporating environmental, social, and governance perspectives.

Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)

Q: Before we delve into the chapters of the book, could you tell us something about yourself, your training, and how you came to write this book?

Marianna describes her background as an environmental historian, her path through Bristol, and how an early influence from David Nye sparked her interest in environment as a lens for understanding history, leading to her focus on wind energy and the long arc from Industrial Revolution origins to modern wind power.

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