Episode 38: Anna Tsing, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" (2/2)

About this episode

The episode features Anna Tsing discussing her insights on disturbed areas and their relevance to understanding our disrupted world.

A pretty short episode capping off this rather long series on James Scott and others. Anna Tsing's thoughts on disturbed areas is amazing and relevant to how to make sense of our disrupted world.I guess I was excited to start my look at Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History. Not sure if he is an American though (Born in Germany I guess). Should not matter. Let's do this. Next ten episodes will look at this mammoth book.

People in this episode

Host: Evan Lampe

Guest: Anna Tsing

Topics covered

• disturbed areas
• disrupted world
• capitalism
• American literature
• environmental studies

Keywords

• Anna Tsing
• James Scott
• Sven Beckert
• capitalism
• environmental studies
• American literature

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Capitalism: A Global History

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