Best Geography Podcasts (2025)

The term “Heimat,” referring to a local sense of home and belonging, has been the subject of much scholarly and popular debate following the fall of the Third Reich. Countering the persistent myth that Heimat was a taboo and unusable term immediately after 1945, Geographies of Renewal uncovers overlooked efforts in the aftermath of the Second World…

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Teo Ballvé, "The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia" (Cornell UP, 2020) 43:58

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In The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia (Cornell UP, 2020), Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region's violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. Although he takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates that Urabá is more than a…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 765 58:05

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Topic: This week we spoke with Willow Ross and Eden Kinkaid of the GeoZone Collective about ‘zines and how they can give voice to geographers. https://geoz.one/ House Keeping: 20 years of avsp Music: Windowseat by Zion IsaiahBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 765 58:05

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Topic: This week we spoke with Willow Ross and Eden Kinkaid of the GeoZone Collective about ‘zines and how they can give voice to geographers. https://geoz.one/ House Keeping: 20 years of avsp Music: Windowseat by Zion IsaiahBy VerySpatial

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Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks, "Global Asias: Tactics & Theories" (U Hawaii Press, 2024) 1:12:37

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Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge formation that currently make legible and organize the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas. Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geo…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 764 45:45

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News Storymaps.com deprecation AGO update Google Earth gets historical streetview MethaneSat likely lost First images from the Biomass satellite TEMPO mission extended Eagleview One platform release Web corner pntportal.eu Topic: Esri UC Music: Feel You Here by Melissa PolinarBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 764 45:45

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News Storymaps.com deprecation AGO update Google Earth gets historical streetview MethaneSat likely lost First images from the Biomass satellite TEMPO mission extended Eagleview One platform release Web corner pntportal.eu Topic: Esri UC Music: Feel You Here by Melissa PolinarBy VerySpatial

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National Education Nature Park (NENP) 32:50

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Listen to Dr. Jessica Tipton and Richard Irvine talk about the National Education Nature Park - an initiative to change school spaces into a biodiverse landscape and encourage children to be more engaged with nature.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 47:18

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This book provides insight into the impact of climate change on human mobility - including both migration and displacement - by synthesizing key concepts, research, methodology, policy, and emerging issues surrounding the topic. It illuminates the connections between climate change and its implications for voluntary migration, involuntary displacem…

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Stacy Horn, "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" (Algonquin Books, 2019) 34:22

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Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archiva…

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Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025) 56:44

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The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History (Oxford University Press, 2025) explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the other. These two mind…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 763 38:56

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News: sUAS related Executive Orders Google Maps updates help you get around more sustainably (in Europe) Climate Station launches on Sony Playstation 5 Web corner: Science Homecoming Interactive Map Topic: Jesse talks to Zach Jaffe of Map I.T. about the services they provide, the impact of the tight coupling of AEC and GIS software for BIM, reality…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 763 38:56

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News: sUAS related Executive Orders Google Maps updates help you get around more sustainably (in Europe) Climate Station launches on Sony Playstation 5 Web corner: Science Homecoming Interactive Map Topic: Jesse talks to Zach Jaffe of Map I.T. about the services they provide, the impact of the tight coupling of AEC and GIS software for BIM, reality…

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Urban Geography - Battersea Power Station 17:34

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Sophie Blake - Head of Geography at Channing School, London has created a new set of learning resources around the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station. Listen to her insights in why it is important to study this iconic landmark and the potential for fieldwork in the area.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024) 58:44

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In The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking (Duke University Press, 2024), Dr. Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member-state governments. Focusing on Japan’s efforts…

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Evolution of the environmental movement 30:17

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This podcast explores the history of the environmental movement with Chris Church and Professor Oli Mould from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts 47:23

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In this episode, we sit down with Shaina Potts, author of Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire (Duke University Press, 2024)—a groundbreaking book that reveals how U.S. courts have quietly become instruments of global economic governance. Drawing on legal geography and a sharp understanding of finance and political…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 762 53:12

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News: Some climate data returning Impacts to NSRS GISP-E Certified Professionals The Action Plan for GeoSkills survey Topic: Constructed landscapes DisneySea Sanrio Puroland Edo-Tokyo Open Air Museum World Expo 2025, Osaka etc Music: We’re Super Sonic by Lola BuzzBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 762 53:12

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News: Some climate data returning Impacts to NSRS GISP-E Certified Professionals The Action Plan for GeoSkills survey Topic: Constructed landscapes DisneySea Sanrio Puroland Edo-Tokyo Open Air Museum World Expo 2025, Osaka etc Music: We’re Super Sonic by Lola BuzzBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 761 44:58

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News: GeoWoodstock XXI (GCANXX1) 25th anniversary of geocaching The Pew Research Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Interactive Map NGA announces the Year of NGA-AI St. Louis geospatial industry responds to tornados Missouri S&T to offer first U.S. master’s degree in geospatial engineering Status of Remote Sensing and the Utilities Industry Land subsi…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 761 44:58

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News: GeoWoodstock XXI (GCANXX1) 25th anniversary of geocaching The Pew Research Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Interactive Map NGA announces the Year of NGA-AI St. Louis geospatial industry responds to tornados Missouri S&T to offer first U.S. master’s degree in geospatial engineering Status of Remote Sensing and the Utilities Industry Land subsi…

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Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas) 47:16

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When did the West lose its way? In 1889, when the US government carved five states out of the spawling Dakota Territory, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and North and South Dakota, all created state constitutions that enshrined certain progressive values into their structre of government. These included the right for women to vote, the power to curtail mo…

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Marine Environment Assessment in Palawan, Philippines 25:47

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Dr Billy Haworth is a geographer interested in human-environment interactions, with expertise positioned at the intersection of human geography, critical GIS (geographic information systems), and international disaster studies. Billy’s work tries to better-understand experiences of, and adaptation to, environmental change and disruption, and often …

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Audio: Ceuta In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast we’ll be talking about the autonomous city of Ceuta — Spanish exclave, military post, and free port on the coast of Morocco, at the Mediterranean entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. Ceuta, Melilla (also an exclave), and other tiny islets along the coast of North Africa constitute the …

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Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 1:09:09

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The first book to combine exquisite cartographical charts of the Moon with a thorough exploration of the Moon’s role in popular culture, science, and myth. President John F. Kennedy’s rousing “We will go to the Moon” speech in 1961 before the US Congress catalyzed the celebrated Apollo program, spurring the US Geological Survey’s scientists to map …

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Gazi Mizanur Rahman, "In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 50:53

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Gazi Mizanur Rahman’s In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community (Cambridge University Press, 2024) offers the first sustained historical study of Bengali migration to British Malaya from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth. Drawing on archival research in South and Southeast Asia, as well as oral histor…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 760 24:21

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News: David Attenborough's 99th birthday New spectral bands for Landsat Next Mexico sues Google Lunar positioning system NSF at 75 Web corner NSF STEM Day Facilities Coloring Book Music: “Garden Groove” by AFAUNBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 760 24:21

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News: David Attenborough's 99th birthday New spectral bands for Landsat Next Mexico sues Google Lunar positioning system NSF at 75 Web corner NSF STEM Day Facilities Coloring Book Music: “Garden Groove” by AFAUNBy VerySpatial

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Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024) 55:51

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Join me for a fascinating conversation with one of today’s leading voices in environmental studies, Daniel Macfarlane, as we explore his new book The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024). Please see the description of the book below, then tune in to hear Dr. Macfarlane share the insights, research,…

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Join Dr. Toby Butler and Dr. Saskia Papadakis - part of the team behind the History of the Environmental Movement project for the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway University, London as they reflect on the use of oral history interviews as a tool within geography projects and explore the unique insights gained from interviewing environmenta…

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Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025) 1:06:18

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In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about their new co-authored book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). This volume is part of the Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds series. Solidarity economies, characterized by di…

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Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025) 51:02

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In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders. Billé argues that corporeal analogies to the nation-state are not simply poetic…

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Reflections on an expedition: Oman 21:50

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Catch up with explorer Mark Evans as he reflects on his expedition to Oman - the opportunities, challenges and how his adventure compared with 20th Century explorer Bertram Thomas.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024) 1:06:22

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From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England (Penn State University Pr…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 759 46:21

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News: GOES-19 now operational ArcGIS SDK 2.0 for Unity and Unreal QGIS 4.0 coming Topic: What we would like to see in geospatial tools Events: Machine Learning for Earth Observation Conference: 18- 20 June 2025, Exeter 15th European conference on precision agriculture: 29th - July 3rd 2025, Barcelona Music: city of lights by LUCØ…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 759 46:21

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News: GOES-19 now operational ArcGIS SDK 2.0 for Unity and Unreal QGIS 4.0 coming Topic: What we would like to see in geospatial tools Events: Machine Learning for Earth Observation Conference: 18- 20 June 2025, Exeter 15th European conference on precision agriculture: 29th - July 3rd 2025, Barcelona Music: city of lights by LUCØ…