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Recent Episodes
- Philip Gooding, “On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890”
- Alice Nyawira Karuri, “Adaptation of Small-Scale Tea and Coffee Farmers in Kenya to Climate Change”
- Justin Raycraft, “Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania”
- Pao K. Wang, The REACHES Database
- Kasia Paprocki, “Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh”
- Ruth Mostern, “The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History”
Podcasts by Region and Theme
Indian Ocean Africa
- Philip Gooding, “On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890”
- Alice Nyawira Karuri, “Adaptation of Small-Scale Tea and Coffee Farmers in Kenya to Climate Change”
- Justin Raycraft, “Islamic Discourses of Environmental Change on the Swahili Coast of Southern Tanzania”
- “Shaping Landscapes: Environmental History, Plantation Management and Colonial Legacies in Mauritius”
- “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”
- “Kuishi Ughaibuni” & “To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”
- Consuming Ivory
- Gone to Ground
- Ocean Cultures and Heritage
- The Travels of Robert Lyall
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Land Cover and Freshwater Fish in Madagascar
- Tsetse flies, ENSO, and Murder
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia
- Pao K. Wang, The REACHES Database
- Ruth Mostern, “The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History”
- Ruth Morgan, “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia.”
- “Atmospheric Archives: Gender and Climate Knowledge in Colonial Tasmania”
- Micro-financing rural Cambodia: Loans, Debt, and Climate Change
- The Indus Delta Between Past and Future
- The Disadvantaged Asian Honeybee
- 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
- The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
- ‘Black Cardamom is Forever’: ethnic minority livelihoods in the western Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
- Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Maladaptation to Climate Change
- Coastal Shipping of Tokugawa Japan
- Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics
- Maritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and Exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in Maritime East Asia
- Tang-Song transition era and maritime activities in E and SE Asia
- ‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Colonial Monocrops and Global Climatic Oscillations in the Philippines
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
Animals and Plant Life in the IOW
- “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”
- Introducing the Gwillim Project
- The Indus Delta Between Past and Future
- The Disadvantaged Asian Honeybee
- 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
- The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
- ‘Black Cardamom is Forever’: ethnic minority livelihoods in the western Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
- Consuming Ivory
- Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans
- Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics
- Hortus Malabaricus (Muralidharan)
- ‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
- Animal diseases as threats to state power in the SRSR
- Animal Ascension (Ondaatje)
- Animal Intimacies (Govindrajan)
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Land Cover and Freshwater Fish in Madagascar
- Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta (Bhattacharyya)
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
Middle East and the IOW
- Contextualizing environmental contingencies
- Managing the Hazards of Yemen’s Natural Environment
- Imperial Mecca (Low)
- Animal diseases as threats to state power in the SRSR
- Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen (Unruh)
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Disaster Management
- Land Rights and Conflict (Unruh)
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
South Asia
- Kasia Paprocki, “Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh”
- Ruth Morgan, “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia.”
- “From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612”
- “Cholera, British Seamen and Maritime Anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s.”
- Introducing the Gwillim Project
- Never Again was there a City like Diu: Architecture, History, and Culture in Colonial Gujarat
- The Indus Delta Between Past and Future
- William Tolly and His Canal: 18th Century Calcutta and the Complexities of Industrialization
- 19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
- Recovery with dignity in South Asia
- Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans
- A Genealogy of Terrorism
- Sustainable organic farming and questions of value
- Hortus Malabaricus (Muralidharan)
- ‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
- Animal Ascension (Ondaatje)
- Animal Intimacies (Govindrajan)
- Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta (Bhattacharyya)
- Climatic history of late seventeenth century Coromandel and the VOC sources
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3
Maritime Zones, IOW Disasters, and GIS
- Pao K. Wang, The REACHES Database
- “Cholera, British Seamen and Maritime Anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s.”
- The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
- Recovery with dignity in South Asia
- Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Maladaptation to Climate Change
- Coastal Shipping of Tokugawa Japan
- Ocean Cultures and Heritage
- Contextualizing environmental contingencies
- The Travels of Robert Lyall
- Maritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and Exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in Maritime East Asia
- Tang-Song transition era and maritime activities in E and SE Asia
- Managing the Hazards of Yemen’s Natural Environment
- Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
- Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen (Unruh)
- Colonial Monocrops and Global Climatic Oscillations in the Philippines
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Disaster Management
- Climatic history of late seventeenth century Coromandel and the VOC sources
- Introduction to the Indian Ocean World: Episodes 1-3