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Kate Brown, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City" (W. W. Norton, 2026)

Kate Brown, Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at MIT joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City (W. W. Norton, 2026) on the 300-year history of urba... more

19 May 2026 • 58 min

Robert Rouphail, "Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius" (Ohio UP, 2026)

In a world marked by increasingly destructive ecological and meteorological upheavals, Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius (Ohio UP, 2026) by Dr. Robert Rouphail offers a historical analysi... more

18 May 2026 • 55 min

Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)

Roads, bridges, a renewable power plant, and an electricity grid: UN peacekeepers might be unusual infrastructure builders, but they’re certainly not unambitious. Since the beginning of the UN’s peacekeeping activities after the end of World War II, ... more

15 May 2026 • 34 min

Peter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussmannization,” helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded... more

10 May 2026 • 51 min

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Dr. Peter Soppelsa

Author of Paris After Haussmann, Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914

University of Oklahoma

Episode: Peter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)

Danielle Jacques

PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Episode: What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

Rachel McKane

Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Jack Meyerhoff Chair in American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Episode: What Waltham Does When the Water Rises: Rachel McKane and Danielle Jacques (JP)

Lucy Stewart

Author of The Japanese Garden, Ella Christie and Cowden (Berlin, 2026)

Berlin Verlag

Episode: Lucy Stewart, "The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden" (Birlinn, 2026)

Malcolm Sen

Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; editor and scholar in Environmental Humanities and Irish Studies

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Episode: Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)

Danielle Fernandez-Pasquale

Founder of Cooking Sections

Cooking Sections

Episode: Cooking Sections, "Waves Lost at Sea" (Spector Books, 2026)

Alon Schwabe

Founder of Cooking Sections

Cooking Sections

Episode: Cooking Sections, "Waves Lost at Sea" (Spector Books, 2026)

Caroline Kuzemko

Author of Climate Politics, Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate Without It

Cambridge University Press

Episode: Caroline Kuzemko, "Climate Politics: Can't Live with It, Can't Mitigate without It" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Kaitlin Reed

Enrolled member of the Yurok tribe; associate professor of Native American Studies

Cal Poly Humboldt

Episode: Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023)

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 72 ratings

Great series
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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Lucy Stewart, "The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden" (Birlinn, 2026)

Q: I always love hearing the backstory of books, so can you tell us a little bit more about Ella in terms of her family background and childhood before she goes off traveling?

Ella was born into a well-to-do Scottish family; her father John Christie made money in the iron and coal industries, and her upbringing was privileged, with extensive exposure to culture, music, and education. She and her sister were educated at home by governesses, developed languages, and learned to read and think critically, which laid the groundwork for her later curiosity and travel.

Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)

Q: What are the central themes that organize the book and how do later chapters build on them?

The book organizes around a triumvirate of concerns—ecology, economy, and politics—and each chapter expands on how Irish literary texts encode climate change through these axes. Later chapters explore poetry and post-War Irish fiction to illustrate how climate narratives intersect with issues of precarity, sovereignty, and the hope for political life, culminating in a reading of Joyce and Finnegans Wake as a way to think about language, geography, and earthly life in the Anthropocene.

Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)

Q: Why is the introduction focused on literature's role in a supposedly scientific area like climate change?

Because literature can offer an empathetic, long-term vantage point that the solution-oriented discourse often misses. Texts can reveal the nuanced, everyday impacts of climate disruption and the intertwining of ecological, political, and economic factors, thereby broadening the conversation beyond data and policy into human experience and cultural memory.

Malcolm Sen, "Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty" (Syracuse UP, 2026)

Q: Could you begin by saying a few words about yourself and what drew you to writing this book?

I was raised in Kolkata, and the experience of a city facing climate and economic precarity shaped my thinking about how culture, ecology, and policy intersect. My work has long connected Irish literature to environmental questions, and this book extends that tradition by reading contemporary Irish fiction through the lens of the climate crisis, economy, and sovereignty. The aim is to develop a reading practice that acknowledges the ecological dimensions embedded in narratives rather than treating climate as a separate, purely scientific issue.

Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation with Noo Saro-Wiwa

Q: What role do women play in the Delta's environmental and economic dynamics?

Women activists are highlighted as central to farming and environmental stewardship, bearing the brunt of pollution and climate impacts, while their leadership underscores the importance of gender perspectives in environmental justice and sustainable livelihoods.

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