All This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsI'm a PhD student in Sociology at the Yale School of the Environment and do other things too, like rock climbing and politics. I really like talking to people about things like the environment and culture and science. Good dialogue unfolds slowly. It's not linear. And that's what this show is: dialogue. I'm just going to bring people on to chat and make things up in between us. DIY vibes.
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Episodes
The Influence of the Nature-Culture Dualism on Morality
November 08, 2023 17:54 - 46 minutes - 107 MBThis is an audio version of my new chapter with Justin Farrell in the new Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, V2 (2023) called "The Influence of the Nature-Culture Dualism on Morality." The new handbook was edited by Steven Hitlin, Shai M. Dromi, and Aliza Luft and is out from Springer-Verlag New York, LLC. Abstract: Nature and culture are perhaps the two most consistent moral categories in Western thought. And yet, despite their stability, what nature and culture represent within a g...
Nature and Cultural Theory (PhD Qualifying Exam)
July 01, 2023 21:27 - 1 hour - 154 MBThis is a long and boring answer to the first question on my PhD qualifying exams at Yale University from this past Spring. I used the new ElevenLabs AI to turn the answer into an audiobook quality thing. This was the question: Your attempt to develop a new “Sociology of Nature” raises questions—both old and new—about the relationship between society and nature. How was this relationship thought about in classical sociology, and where does the study of this relationship stand today?
Conservatism and the Environment
February 23, 2023 05:42 - 10 minutes - 110 MBI asked an AI-bot to read a little extended abstract I wrote for the American Sociological Association's annual meeting. It's pretty academic, but a good little summary of what my work has been focused on over the past few years: conservatism, nazism, ecofascism, nature, and the environment.
The Trouble With Home
February 19, 2023 21:27 - 6 minutes - 14.6 MBA brief reflection on Bill Cronon's 1998 essay "The Trouble With Wilderness". A lot of this thinking is built up on Bruno Latour's idea of "coming down to earth" and Isabelle Stenger's idea of "obligations."
Lauren Sadowski: Some Heady Thoughts on the Politics of Grizzly Bear Management
February 02, 2022 00:08 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBLauren and I start with her work on the weird case of a woman in Jackson, Wyoming feeding the most famous bear in the world off her back porch and we end wondering about the philosophy of perception and causality and conflict. Good shit.
Emile Newman: Identity and subtle exploitation in the outdoor industry (Part 1)
September 25, 2021 02:08 - 1 hour - 107 MBEmile Newman (@curlsinthewild) is a model and professional snowboarder based out of Jackson, Wyoming and a Masters student at the Yale School of the Environment. Navigating both worlds as a Black woman can be tough and rewarding and confusing. *At one point Emile refers to Quannah Chasing Horse as Quannah Parker*