The Edge Effects podcast features interviews with scholars, scientists, activists, and artists who engage with questions of environmental and cultural change. If you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a rating and a review wherever you get your podcasts.
Latest episodes
THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY, 25 Years Later: A Conversation with Jeff Spitz
In fall 2024, we were visited by environmental filmmaker Jeff Spitz, whose film Return of Navajo Boy, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, drew urgent attention to the contaminating impact of uranium mining on Navajo lands and People. These joint efforts resulted in a record $1bn compensation to the Nation ...
Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor
How can disability and illness function differently in how we think about environmental justice? How can we bring disability into focus as a crucial access point for thinking about more livable futures for all? In November 2024, it was my privilege to converse with Sunaura Taylor, author of the book ...
Living Deserts and Colonial Afterlives: A Conversation with Jill Jarvis
What is the relationship between imagined and embodied knowledge of geographical space? In July of 2024, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jill Jarvis over Zoom about her work in progress, Signs in the Desert: An Aesthetic Cartography of the Sahara. Jarvis defines the book project as an ...
Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka
I had the pleasure of speaking with Khairani Barokka (Okka) over Zoom about her third poetry collection amuk, published by Nine Arches Press. The book mobilizes the mistranslation of the Indonesian word “amuk” to craft a sprawling exploration and indictment of the environmental, cultural, and linguistic violences of colonialism. The ...
