{"id":3070,"date":"2025-07-28T17:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=3070"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:25:41","slug":"samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Dolbee &#8211; Locusts of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University (USA), discussed his book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/locusts-of-power\/F7A16AADB559F951004DB8F4A228D097\">Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Cambridge University Press, 2023) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 11 March 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts and revealing how they shaped both the environment and people\u2019s imaginations from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages, Dolbee details environmental, political, and spatial transformations in the region\u2019s history by tracing the movements of locusts and their intimate relationship to people in motion, including Arab and Kurdish nomads, Armenian deportees, and Assyrian refugees, as well as states of the region. With locusts and moving people at center stage, surprising continuities and ruptures appear in the Jazira, the borderlands of today\u2019s Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Transcending approaches focused on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire or the creation of nation states, Dolbee provides a new perspective on the modern Middle East grounded in environmental change, state violence, and popular resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University (USA), discussed his book&nbsp;Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East&nbsp;(Cambridge 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\/2025\/07\/2024-03-11-Dolbee.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2024-03-11-Dolbee_pod.jpg","cover_image_id":"3058","duration":"56:14","filesize":"41.31M","filesize_raw":"43313956","date_recorded":"2024-03-11","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"7","itunes_title":"Samuel Dolbee - Locusts of Power","itunes_season_number":"5","itunes_episode_type":"full"},"tags":[17,18],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-3070","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","tag-books","tag-environment","series-greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2024-03-11-Dolbee_pod.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/3070\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/3070\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/3070\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/3070\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power<\/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=\"prD8tKLSXL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power\/\">Samuel Dolbee &#8211; Locusts of Power<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/samuel-dolbee-locusts-of-power\/embed\/#?secret=prD8tKLSXL\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Samuel Dolbee &#8211; Locusts of Power&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"prD8tKLSXL\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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