Episode 26: Dr. Frank Uekötter and Making Sense of the Juice: Florida Oranges and the Problems of Monoculture. Plus, His Upcoming Book, ”The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World”

2023-04-27

(Originally published by Sebastian Garcia on November 9th, 2022) The Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Dr. Frank Uekötter, a Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, working on environmental issues, both past and present, in a global context. Their conversation primarily focused on Dr. Uekötter’s faculty talk event at UCF this past Monday (11/7), which was about the Florida citrus industry and issues of monoculture in this regio...

(Originally published by Sebastian Garcia on November 9th, 2022) The Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Dr. Frank Uekötter, a Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, working on environmental issues, both past and present, in a global context. Their conversation primarily focused on Dr. Uekötter’s faculty talk event at UCF this past Monday (11/7), which was about the Florida citrus industry and issues of monoculture in this region, but also more broadly (starts at 16:06). This naturally led some portions of the conversation in the podcast to talk about themes and topics from his upcoming book The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World—however the final segment of the podcast is dedicated solely to talking about his book, which will be coming out in February 2023 (starts at 1:01:02). Below you can find some links to Dr. Uekötter’s YouTube videos posted by the University of Birmingham to learn more about his research and his work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j72s4nCoMEw (A Global History of Monoculture)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSp6VyHuLlI (Making Food History)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UmtKexCO0A (Dr. Uekötter research interests)

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