Finding my tribe
In party conference season, we look at what bonds party members and what it means to create a new network with its own shared beliefs and rituals. What light can the big thinkers from the worlds of anthropology and sociology shed? From political tribes to criminal gangs, from social media to socia…
The Burning Earth-Readings & Review
Herein I read a wide range of my favorite excerpts from The Burning Earth: 500 Year s of Environmental History written by a Yale professor Sunil Amrith, a 2024 publication. Very readable !...an erudite and articulate book. Spanning from early agrarian societies and the transition from Nomadic life…
Introducing ‘Nature in Crisis’
In a time of climate breakdown and mass extinction there is a new urgency to environmental writing, both as literature and as science. So In their series, Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith consider some of the most significant books published in the last few years, along with classic texts by R…
Nature in Crisis: ‘Blue Machine’ by Helen Czerski
In Blue Machine (2024), Helen Czerski refigures the ocean as an enormous planetary engine, converting light and heat into motion. Her book invites us to see the ocean not as an ‘absence’ but an intricate series of operations that makes life as we know it possible.
In this episode, Meehan Crist an…
‘Blue Machine’ by Helen Czerski
In Blue Machine (2024), Helen Czerski refigures the ocean as an enormous planetary engine, converting light and heat into motion. Her book invites us to see the ocean not as an ‘absence’ but an intricate series of operations that makes life as we know it possible.
In this episode, Meehan Crist a…
Nature in Crisis: ‘The Burning Earth’ by Sunil Amrith
The ‘great acceleration’ is a term used to describe the dramatic surge in the 1950s of both human and earth systems indicators that marked a shift from a relatively stable planetary state to one that's characterised by increasing environmental instability. Alongside measures of carbon dioxide, nit…
‘The Burning Earth’ by Sunil Amrith
The ‘great acceleration’ is a term used to describe the dramatic surge in the 1950s of both human and earth systems indicators that marked a shift from a relatively stable planetary state to one that's characterised by increasing environmental instability. Alongside measures of carbon dioxide, nit…
Sunil Amrith puts Asia at the heart of the planet’s climate history
Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University with a secondary appointment as professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Director of the Macmillan Centre for International and Area Studies and Yale's Vice Provost for International Affairs. He …
On the Rising Challenges to Academic Freedom Across the Globe
Keith Whittington is joined by Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University and a leader of the Yale chapter of the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR). SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission is to protect scholars and promote ac…
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