“‘We are the Dispossessed’: Displacement, Knowledge Production and Bare Life in West Bengali Climate Fiction”
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
climate change
African Clean Energy Access: Why Gas Cannot Be The Future Africa Chooses with Rachel Kyte
In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson talk to guest Rachel Kyte about the impacts of living through a global energy crisis while living through a climate crisis. The musical guest is Carmody.
“Science, Society, Signs”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Harald Lesch.
“Where Ideas Grow: Life at the Landhaus”
We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.
“From the Anthropocene to the New Climatic Regime”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bruno Latour.
“Shrinking Sea Ice as a Prism of Climate Change Understanding”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Nina Wormbs.
Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones
Full text of the book Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones.
American Politics and the Environment
Full text of the second edition of American Politics and the Environment.
Interview with Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, authors of Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen are interviewed on their recent book, Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.
Interview with Alison F. Richard, author of Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alison F. Richard is interviewed on her recent book, Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present.