E439 | How can we narrate human history in relation to the non-human world? In this inaugural installment of our new environmental humanities series Climes, we talk to Bathsheba Demuth about the craft of environmental history. She reads selections from her new book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, and we discuss how hunting, capitalism, and communism shaped the Arctic region of Beringia.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/demuth.html
Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian at Brown University, where her research focuses on the Russian and North American Arctic. Her writing has appeared in publications from The New Yorker to The American Historical Review.
Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.
CREDITS
Episode No. 439
Release Date: 6 December 2019
Recording Location: Harvard University
Music (in order of appearance): Bumbling by Pictures of the Floating World; Homeroad by Kai Engel; Dark Depths by Brevyn; Badlands by Silicon Transmitter; So What by Soft and Furious; Negentropy by Chad Crouch; Beanbag Fight by Scanglobe
Sound Elements: Factory Sounds; Bowhead Whale Audiograph; Bowhead Whale Ringtone; Sperm Whale Clicking Sounds; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Beaufort Lagoon - Coastline; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Beaufort Lagoon - Melt Off; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Timber Lake - June 4, 2006 - AM - Ice cracking; Boat Motor Sound Effect; Arctic White Noise And Wind THE BEST ASMR; Deeply Relaxing Underwater Sounds - 10 Hours | Deep Ocean Sounds - Sleep, Relax, Study, Meditation
Audio editing by Chris Gratien
Bibliography and images courtesy of Bathsheba Demuth available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/12/demuth.html
