Best Geography Podcasts (2025)

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Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025) 51:02

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In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders. Billé argues that corporeal analogies to the nation-state are not simply poetic…

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Reflections on an expedition: Oman 21:50

2h ago21:50

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Catch up with explorer Mark Evans as he reflects on his expedition to Oman - the opportunities, challenges and how his adventure compared with 20th Century explorer Bertram Thomas.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024) 1:06:22

29m ago1:06:22

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From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England (Penn State University Pr…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 759 46:21

3h ago46:21

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News: GOES-19 now operational ArcGIS SDK 2.0 for Unity and Unreal QGIS 4.0 coming Topic: What we would like to see in geospatial tools Events: Machine Learning for Earth Observation Conference: 18- 20 June 2025, Exeter 15th European conference on precision agriculture: 29th - July 3rd 2025, Barcelona Music: city of lights by LUCØ…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 759 46:21

28m ago46:21

46:21

News: GOES-19 now operational ArcGIS SDK 2.0 for Unity and Unreal QGIS 4.0 coming Topic: What we would like to see in geospatial tools Events: Machine Learning for Earth Observation Conference: 18- 20 June 2025, Exeter 15th European conference on precision agriculture: 29th - July 3rd 2025, Barcelona Music: city of lights by LUCØ…

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4.23.25 27:44

43m ago27:44

27:44

By Radio Eye

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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry 1:14:53

24h ago1:14:53

1:14:53

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, about her work on the political, economic, and environmental politics of big data infrastructures. They focus on some of Bridges’ work on the disconnect between the promises made to localities around digital transformati…

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María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025) 1:08:53

11d ago1:08:53

1:08:53

In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived…

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4.16.25 27:44

9d ago27:44

27:44

By Radio Eye

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The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History 40:45

10d ago40:45

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Geographic labels are sometimes misnomers. The Dead Sea’s name is not, for the most part. Its high salinity levels kill most forms of life, barring a couple hardy microbes and algae—and even these are threatened by environmental change. Except the Dead Sea has been part of human history for millennia. Jericho, the world’s oldest city, sits nearby. …

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 758 21:19

13d ago21:19

21:19

News: PreGISP Apple Maps adding indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand Web corner Citizen Science Month 2025 and One Million Acts of Science Topic: NC GIS interviews EagleView ROK Tech Music Stranger Danger by Solo KeiBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 758 21:19

14d ago21:19

21:19

News: PreGISP Apple Maps adding indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand Web corner Citizen Science Month 2025 and One Million Acts of Science Topic: NC GIS interviews EagleView ROK Tech Music Stranger Danger by Solo KeiBy VerySpatial

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4.9.25 28:03

14d ago28:03

28:03

By Radio Eye

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4.2.25 28:13

21d ago28:13

28:13

By Radio Eye

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Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:22:44

25d ago1:22:44

1:22:44

The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border (Cambridge UP, 2024) focuses on the protracted territorial exchange and experiences of …

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 757 23:07

26d ago23:07

23:07

News: Data Rescue Project Committee cuts Are drones on the path to commoditization Web corner Pittsburgh in 50 maps Topic: Interviews from the 2025 NC GIS Conference Jackson Adams from NCTech Inc. Dale Loberger from BCS, Inc. Events: Big Ten GIS Conference 2025 April 11 virtual Horizons April 27-29 Denver Louisiana May 6-8 in Baton Rouge Louisiana …

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 757 23:07

26d ago23:07

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News: Data Rescue Project Committee cuts Are drones on the path to commoditization Web corner Pittsburgh in 50 maps Topic: Interviews from the 2025 NC GIS Conference Jackson Adams from NCTech Inc. Dale Loberger from BCS, Inc. Events: Big Ten GIS Conference 2025 April 11 virtual Horizons April 27-29 Denver Louisiana May 6-8 in Baton Rouge Louisiana …

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Breaking the Cycle 21:42

27d ago21:42

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Join us for an exciting podcast with expedition cyclist Dr. Kate Leeming who is embarking on a 10,500 km bicycle journey through the heart of Central Asia. Kate will be travelling for 5 months exploring the geography, history and cultural importance of this region with a particular focus on water resources - a topic that is critical not only to Cen…

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3.26.25 28:26

29d ago28:26

28:26

By Radio Eye

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V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024) 1:04:16

1M ago1:04:16

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Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore (Cornell UP, 2024) reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conserva…

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Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024) 34:49

1M ago34:49

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A riveting expose of the global oil industry' s multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation. Researched and written by one of Australia' s most fearless investigative journalists, Slick: Australia's Toxic Relati…

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Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024) 30:32

1M ago30:32

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The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of our economy and save our planet. It's an analysis of the current discourse of American climate politics, but also a critical history of the terms that most directly influence the way not just conservativ…

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3.19.25 27:58

1M ago27:58

27:58

By Radio Eye

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Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 42:53

1M ago42:53

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Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025) by Dr. Maggie Cao is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian Dr. Cao crafts a nuanced portrait of nineteenth-century US painters’ complicity with and re…

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Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024) 1:01:38

1M ago1:01:38

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Icy, unpredictable, and treacherous, the dangers of the Yalu River were heightened in the twentieth century when it became the longest non-maritime border of the Japanese Empire. Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Cornell University Press, 2024) focuses on this river at this critical juncture, analyzi…

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Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024) 52:10

1M ago52:10

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The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, the legislation reshaped constitutional arrangements at Westminster, reinvigorated political relationships between the center and the provinces, and established the political structures and precedents …

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3.12.25 28:11

1M ago28:11

28:11

By Radio Eye

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Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024) 52:10

2M ago52:10

52:10

Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refinement of markets for digital goods and services. In The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial …

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Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024) 1:09:18

2M ago1:09:18

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California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes, floods, landslides and debris flows, and sea-level rise and coastal erosion. As Dr. Gary Griggs demonstrates in California Catastro…

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Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025) 1:06:22

2M ago1:06:22

1:06:22

The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Na…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 756 45:33

2M ago45:33

45:33

News: Esri AGO updates Map viewer classic road to deprecation AGE roadmap SketchUp 2025 Microsoft removing location history API from Windows 11 Web corner Inaugural David J. Weaver GIS Research Fellow at Boston Public Library Topic: Cartography in 3D Events: QGIS User Conference 2025: 2-3 June, Norrköping, Sweden Music: Storyteller by Julianna Lain…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 756 45:33

2M ago45:33

45:33

News: Esri AGO updates Map viewer classic road to deprecation AGE roadmap SketchUp 2025 Microsoft removing location history API from Windows 11 Web corner Inaugural David J. Weaver GIS Research Fellow at Boston Public Library Topic: Cartography in 3D Events: QGIS User Conference 2025: 2-3 June, Norrköping, Sweden Music: Storyteller by Julianna Lain…

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3.5.25 28:10

2M ago28:10

28:10

By Radio Eye

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Climate Change, a Russian Perspective 25:39

2M ago25:39

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Russia is often overlooked with respect to its role in climate change conversations. However, this vast country with a population of over 140 million, a wealth of fossil fuels, and diverse ecosystems, has an important role to play in the causes and effects of climate change. Join us as we talk to Professor Jonathan Oldfield from the School of Geogr…

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Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024) 36:45

2M ago36:45

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Today I talked to Marcia Bjornerud about Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Flatiron Books, 2024). Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed. Marcia Bjornerud’s life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From …

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Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024) 54:44

2M ago54:44

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From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of animals. In 1858, the city adopted the Greensward Plan and began the long process of reshaping the 843 acres of land into a park where everything—from the trees to the trails to the inhabitants—wo…

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Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 1:15:06

2M ago1:15:06

1:15:06

“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality. According to Noam Leshem in Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land (U Chicago Press, 2025), the term also reveals radical abandonment by the state. From the Northern Sahara to the Amazon r…

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Shetland (S6.09)

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Audio: Shetland In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast we’ll be talking about Shetland, a group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland, 210 km (130 miles) north of the Scottish mainland, at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom, around 340km or 210 miles from Norway. The islands total around 1,500 km2 …

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2.26.25 27:59

2M ago27:59

27:59

By Radio Eye

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Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024) 1:26:07

2M ago1:26:07

1:26:07

Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate professor Laureen Hom in The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles (California UP, 2024). They're also communities where people live, organize, and argue over politics. China…

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Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 56:28

2M ago56:28

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In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002, an event witnessed closely by the author. Dhattiwala compares peaceful and violent towns, villages, and neighborhoods to study how political violence spreads. A combination of statistical and eth…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 755 44:12

2M ago44:12

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House Keeping: geofeeds.me News: QGIS as digital public good The role of a name or shuffling toponyms Topic: We continue to look back at the history of geospatial technologies Events: Social Science History Association: 20-23 November, Chicago - Abstracts due March 1 Music: "brightside" by Dawson Hollow…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 755 44:12

2M ago44:12

44:12

House Keeping: geofeeds.me News: QGIS as digital public good The role of a name or shuffling toponyms Topic: We continue to look back at the history of geospatial technologies Events: Social Science History Association: 20-23 November, Chicago - Abstracts due March 1 Music: "brightside" by Dawson Hollow…

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Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 50:27

2M ago50:27

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When we think of the sixteenth-century arrival of European missionaries in East Asia, there is a tendency to imagine this meeting as a civilizational clash, a great meeting of two fixed cultures. This clash is symbolized in the ‘Ricci map(s)’: a map created by a Jesuit missionary to bring scientific cartography to East Asia. Remapping the World in …

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2.19.25 28:04

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By Radio Eye

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2.12.25 28:10

2M ago28:10

28:10

By Radio Eye

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"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024) 53:22

2M ago53:22

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We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and ecological catastrophe and that everything needs to change, and fast. Thankfully, radical environmental movements have forced the question of “system change” to the centre of the political agenda …

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Voices from the Global South with the OU 41:55

3M ago41:55

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In this podcast we speak to Michael Pryke, Colin Lorne and Benjamin Newman who have collaborated on an inspiring project titled 'Voices from the Global South'. An initiative which is part of the Open Learn provision from The Open University, comprises six short films designed to stimulate reflection on how geography deepens our understanding of the…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 754 41:12

3M ago41:12

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News: Some US federal data is going offline, but you may be able to access duplicate copies on non-federal servers National Honor Society for Geospatial Technology applications open Penn State studies honey bee movements using QR codes Topic: Geography (and other) references we return to often. Events: GeoBusiness: 4-5 June, London RGS/IBG: 26-29 A…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 754 41:12

3M ago41:12

41:12

News: Some US federal data is going offline, but you may be able to access duplicate copies on non-federal servers National Honor Society for Geospatial Technology applications open Penn State studies honey bee movements using QR codes Topic: Geography (and other) references we return to often. Events: GeoBusiness: 4-5 June, London RGS/IBG: 26-29 A…

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