Island Environmental Histories: the Ogasawara Islands

Islands are complex ecological objects produced through flows of
flora, coral polyps, human migration, and global capital. They
are places that are constantly being changed through human and
non-human action. Therefore, they are wonderfully rich sites for
environmental historians, not to mention cultural, economic, and
historians of science, to examine. They are less miniature worlds
than they are places made by the convergence of worlds. In this
podcast Colin Tyner, a PhD candidate at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, examines the Ogasawara Island group and
it environmental histories. Colin will illustrate how different
social, cultural and natural worlds converged on the Ogasawara
Islands.


Music credit: Aerofonia by Mario Mattioli, available from
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