{"id":1924,"date":"2023-01-29T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1924"},"modified":"2023-01-29T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:14:58","slug":"emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Pawley &#8211; The Nature of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emily Pawley, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College (USA), discussed her book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/N\/bo48885576.html\">The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum North<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(University of Chicago Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 8 June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences.&nbsp;<em>The Nature of the Future<\/em>&nbsp;aims to remake this staid vision. Emily Pawley examines a place&nbsp;and period of enormous agricultural vitality\u2014antebellum New York State\u2014and follows thousands of \u201cimproving agriculturists,\u201d part of the largest, most diverse, and most active scientific community in nineteenth-century America. Pawley shows that these improvers practiced a kind of science hard for contemporary readers to recognize, in which profit was not only a goal but also the underlying purpose of the natural world. Far from producing a more rational vision of nature, northern farmers practiced a form of science where conflicting visions of the future landscape appeared and evaporated in quick succession. Drawing from environmental history, US history and the history of science, and extensively mining a wealth of antebellum agricultural publications,&nbsp;<em>The Nature of the Future<\/em>&nbsp;uncovers the rich loam hiding beneath ostensibly infertile scholarly terrain, revealing a surprising area of agricultural experimentation that transformed American landscapes and American ideas of expertise, success, and exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Pawley, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College (USA), discussed her book&nbsp;The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum North&nbsp;(University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2020-06-08-Pawley.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2020-06-08-Pawley_pod-scaled.jpg","cover_image_id":"1926","duration":"1:00:17","filesize":"35.26M","filesize_raw":"36969486","date_recorded":"2020-06-08","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-1924","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","series-greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2020-06-08-Pawley_pod-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/1924\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/1924\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/1924\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/1924\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future<\/a>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/id1664960759","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0TNTSCl3zRBues4Eqjkwwm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"pR4GkkuADL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future\/\">Emily Pawley &#8211; The Nature of the Future<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future\/embed\/#?secret=pR4GkkuADL\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Emily Pawley &#8211; The Nature of the Future&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"pR4GkkuADL\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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