The official podcast of EDGE EFFECTS, the digital magazine produced by the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It features interviews with pathbreaking thinkers inside the academy and beyond about cultural and environmental change across the full sweep of human history. Find more great content at http://edgeeffects/net.
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2024-12-12 |
Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. They discuss the contamination of the Tucson aquifer as an origin for understanding the mutual injury of humans and the environment. The post Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglement... |
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2024-11-07 |
Living Deserts and Colonial Afterlives: A Conversation with Jill Jarvis Angeline Peterson interviews Jill Jarvis on her forthcoming book project Signs in the Desert through her journey into studying the Sahara. Discussing a variety of sources, they challenge the view of deserts as empty spaces and highlight the Saraha as a... |
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2024-09-26 |
Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka Jagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonial translation, and rage across personal, political, and environmental scales. The post Translation, Rage, and Wh... |
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2024-09-19 |
Resisting and Reimagining Agricultural Systems in Hawai’i: A Conversation with Andrea Brower Cathleen McCluskey speaks with Andrea Brower on the intersections of colonialism, neoliberalism, and plantations in agricultural systems—from Hawai'i and beyond. How might possibilities of a better future be imagined through political and social resist... |
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2024-06-13 | The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin. The post Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin appeared first on Edge Effects. |
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2024-04-08 |
What’s Special about this Solar Eclipse? A Conversation with Kaitlin Moore Rob Ferrett from Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interviews Kaitlin Moore to talk about why the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 is such a highly anticipated event. The post What’s Special about this Solar Eclipse? A Conversation with Kaitlin Moore appeare... |
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2024-03-14 |
Maroon Geographies, Black Placemaking, and Abolitionist Futures: A Conversation with Celeste Winston Elijah Levine speaks with Celeste Winston about marronage as a placemaking practice. By drawing on connections across time, the conversation reveals how Black folks in the United States build lasting infrastructures to disrupt power structures. The po... |
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2024-02-29 |
Death, Leisure, and “Feeling Alive”: A Conversation with Adam Kaul What does death denial say about American culture? How can dying be dignified and humanized? Bri Meyer interviews Adam Kaul about his anthropological research on death and dying and its intersections with leisure and tourism. The post Death, Leisure, a... |
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2024-02-22 | Heather Swan speaks author and poet, Nickole Brown about her relationship with animals, the more-than-human world and the Hellbender poetry conference. The post Goats, Bees, and Poetry: A Conversation with Nickole Brown appeared first on Edge Effects. |
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2024-02-15 |
From Trash Trade to Waste Colonialism: A Conversation with Simone Müller Paul Sutter interviews Simone Müller about the famous case of the Khian Sea, a "renegade ship" carrying waste and trying to dock in different countries. The ship reveals the many contradictions within environmental movements and policies. The post Fro... |
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