Intervention – a podcast from the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory

Scholar-activist Kevin Anderson, professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and Uppsala University, provides a quantitative analysis of the response to the climate emergency that, simply put, does not add up relative to the dangers of climate disruption. In conversation with EHL Director Rob Gioielli, Prof. Anderson also discusses climate justice, the role of scientists, and structural factors that continue to impede efforts to reduce emissions despite the Paris Agreement’s adoption a decade ago.

On this episode of the Intervention podcast, Prof. Timothy Mitchell of Columbia University discusses some of the major themes of his extensive work, in the Middle East and elsewhere, on energy and environmental history, political economy and colonialism. These themes were encapsulated in his landmark 2011 book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil and reflected in his 2024 Stockholm Archipelago Lecture “On Rivercide: The Colonial Origins of Creative Destruction”.  Prof. Mitchell sat down with EHL Director Rob Gioielli in December 2024 while in Stockholm to deliver the 13th Archipelago Lecture, the annual flagship event of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

In this first episode of the re-launched Intervention podcast from the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, James Dunk from the University of Sydney joins EHL acting director Adam Wickberg and podcast host Eric Paglia to explore the concept of Planetary Health and its relationship to the Anthropocene.