{"id":2034,"date":"2023-03-21T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=2034"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:08:09","slug":"etienne-benson-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/etienne-benson-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"Etienne Benson &#8211; Surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Etienne Benson, Director of Department II, Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany (formerly Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania), presented his book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/S\/bo50271092.html\">Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(University of Chicago Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 19 October 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, it\u2019s easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism are and always have been self-evident. But in&nbsp;<em>Surroundings<\/em>, we learn that the environmental past is much more complex than it seems at first glance. In this wide-ranging history of the concept through a series of richly contextualized case studies, Benson uncovers the diversity of forms that environmentalism has taken over the last two centuries and opens our eyes to the promising new varieties of environmentalism that are emerging today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etienne Benson, Director of Department II, Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany (formerly Associate [&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\/03\/2020-10-19-Benson.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2020-10-19-Benson_pod.jpg","cover_image_id":"2036","duration":"56:56","filesize":"42.38M","filesize_raw":"44435608","date_recorded":"2020-10-19","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-2034","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\/03\/2020-10-19-Benson_pod.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/2034\/etienne-benson-surroundings","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2034\/etienne-benson-surroundings","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2034\/etienne-benson-surroundings\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2034\/etienne-benson-surroundings<\/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=\"qGE7Tf0izw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/etienne-benson-surroundings\/\">Etienne Benson &#8211; Surroundings<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/etienne-benson-surroundings\/embed\/#?secret=qGE7Tf0izw\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Etienne Benson &#8211; Surroundings&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"qGE7Tf0izw\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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