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Edge Effects episodes

November 15, 2016 What is Food Studies?
Stressing intimacy, structures of power, social justice, and action, food studies is giving interdisciplinarity a good name.
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18 min
November 10, 2016 The Land Doesn’t Hate: A Conversation with Lauret Savoy
A geologist turned award-winning writer reflects on the marks racism has left on the American landscape.
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36 min
March 29, 2016 Working Concepts: A Conversation with Sarah Besky
A conversation about labor: labor on tea plantations, the labor of language, and the ways in which the Anthropocene invites labor-focused inquiry.
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20 min
March 15, 2016 Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Scott Kirsch
A conversation with geographer Scott Kirsch about what we mean when we talk about technology, and how we can understand the relationship between language and environmental and historical change.
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14 min
January 26, 2016 Where Land, Water, and Militants Meet: A Conversation with Nancy Langston
Dr. Nancy Langston speaks about the current conflict in Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and about hopeful collaborations for conservation.
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17 min
December 15, 2015 The Stories and Languages of Home: A Conversation with Robin W. Kimmerer
Dr. Robin W. Kimmerer speaks about indigenous knowledges, traditional science, and the stories and words that connect us to our nonhuman homes.
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10 min
September 10, 2015 Atomic Cities, the Mirage of Safety, and the Word “Environment”: A Conversation with Kate Brown
CHE's upcoming symposium asks: how useful is it to talk about the "environment"? Is there a better word or framework? Dr. Kate Brown gives us her answer as she shares her research on atomic cities.
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11 min
July 07, 2015 Green Conservatives: A Conversation with Brian Drake
Advocates of small government have a long and uncharted history within US environmentalism, argues Brian Drake in an interview about his recent book.
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33 min
May 05, 2015 Rewilding and Reptiles: A Conversation With Naturalist Harry Greene
World-renowned herpetologist and naturalist Harry Greene discusses humanity's "deep history" with snakes, empathy and embodiment in animal research, Pleistocene rewilding, natural history in education, and more.
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19 min
March 10, 2015 Coke and Capitalism: A Conversation with Bart Elmore
Bart Elmore discusses how Coke came to shape landscapes and bodies the world over, and what that suggests for the future of corporate sustainability.
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22 min