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Edge Effects

A Digital Magazine from the Center for Culture, History, and Environment

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The Case for Ecological Reparations: A Conversation with Jason W. Moore

The Case for Ecological Reparations: A Conversation with Jason W. Moore

Making things right in the face of climate change demands that colonialism, race, and gender take center stage in the st... Read more

31 Oct 2017

46mins

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Why All Fiction Should Be Climate Fiction: A Conversation with Lauren Groff

Why All Fiction Should Be Climate Fiction: A Conversation with Lauren Groff

How does the celebrated author of the new story collection "Florida" write books in a poisoned, warming world? "By being... Read more

21 Aug 2018

41mins

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The Animals’ Guide to History: A Conversation with Stephanie Rutherford and Shari Wilcox

The Animals’ Guide to History: A Conversation with Stephanie Rutherford and Shari Wilcox

Two geographers, co-editors of the new volume Historical Animal Geographies, discuss how the animals around us shape our... Read more

7 Aug 2018

42mins

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Decolonizing Labor in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Shona Jackson

Decolonizing Labor in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Shona Jackson

Dr. Shona Jackson discusses labor in the Caribbean and the need for radical, collective labor histories that include Cre... Read more

28 Jan 2020

34mins

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What Is Land? A Conversation with Tania Murray Li, Rafael Marquese, and Monica White

What Is Land? A Conversation with Tania Murray Li, Rafael Marquese, and Monica White

Land is the scene of a crime and a site of liberation. Tania Murray Li, Rafael Marquese, and Monica White discuss land a... Read more

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There’s No Sheriff on This Planet: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson

There’s No Sheriff on This Planet: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson

The acclaimed writer of the bestselling Mars trilogy and Red Moon models possible futures in his science fiction for a b... Read more

7 May 2019

1hr 13mins

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How Extraction Fuels the Anthropocenes: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht

How Extraction Fuels the Anthropocenes: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht

How do the minerals in your phone place you within global flows of extraction? Gabrielle Hecht discusses uranium mining ... Read more

26 Feb 2019

45mins

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Humor in Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Michael Branch

Humor in Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Michael Branch

How do we expand the emotional range of environmental writing? One author argues that irreverence can be a potent form o... Read more

3 Apr 2018

51mins

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Indigenous Art as Creative Resistance: A Conversation with Dylan Miner

Indigenous Art as Creative Resistance: A Conversation with Dylan Miner

How can we use the arts to decolonize our relations to the land? An artist, activist, and scholar discusses the many for... Read more

17 Apr 2018

35mins

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The Land Is a Teacher: A Conversation with Jeff Grignon

The Land Is a Teacher: A Conversation with Jeff Grignon

In his decades of work in forestry and cultural heritage for Menominee Nation, tribal member Jeff Grignon reads the lay ... Read more

19 Nov 2019

1hr 3mins

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Rachel Carson Joins the Literary Canon: A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber

Rachel Carson Joins the Literary Canon: A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber

The acclaimed author and activist, who has edited the new Library of America edition of "Silent Spring," reflects on how... Read more

1 May 2018

48mins

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What Counts as Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita

What Counts as Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita

The award-winning author and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing discusses storytelling during environ... Read more

21 May 2019

33mins

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Infrastructure’s Inequalities: A Conversation with Nikhil Anand and Nausheen Anwar

Infrastructure’s Inequalities: A Conversation with Nikhil Anand and Nausheen Anwar

Geographer Siddharth Menon interviews anthropologist Nikhil Anand and urban planner Nausheen Anwar about infrastructures... Read more

3 Dec 2019

1hr 9mins

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In Search of a Democratic Agrarian Tradition: A Conversation with Pete Daniel and Jess Gilbert

In Search of a Democratic Agrarian Tradition: A Conversation with Pete Daniel and Jess Gilbert

What is the relationship between American agriculture and democracy? In this lively interview, Jess Gilbert and Pete Dan... Read more

12 Jun 2018

48mins

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We Are the Seventh Generation: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke

We Are the Seventh Generation: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke

Two centuries ago, Ojibwe people planned for seven generations to come. Today that seventh generation is fighting for th... Read more

14 Nov 2017

12mins

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What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan

What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan

What would it mean to see through the eyes of dogs? The tangled histories of humans and animals show us how personhood, ... Read more

20 Mar 2018

31mins

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Finding Hope and Community with Honeybees: A Conversation with Heather Swan

Finding Hope and Community with Honeybees: A Conversation with Heather Swan

The decline of honeybees is cause for alarm and a symptom of global biodiversity loss. Beekeepers, however, find creativ... Read more

23 Jan 2018

43mins

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Adventures in the Underland: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

Adventures in the Underland: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

Celebrated author Robert Macfarlane discusses his latest book, Underland, which journeys deep underground to look for an... Read more

10 Sep 2019

55mins

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Decolonizing Infrastructure in India and the US: A Conversation with Malini Ranganathan

Decolonizing Infrastructure in India and the US: A Conversation with Malini Ranganathan

Two urban geographers discuss decolonization in theory and practice, the politics of water and infrastructure, and the s... Read more

4 Jun 2019

51mins

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Arctic Ecologies, Then and Now: A Conversation with Bathsheba Demuth

Arctic Ecologies, Then and Now: A Conversation with Bathsheba Demuth

Bathsheba Demuth discusses her new book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and Arctic histo... Read more

8 Oct 2019

54mins

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