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Producer
Sebastian Garcia
Description
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)
Narrator
Sebastian Garcia
Interviewer
Sebastian Garcia
Interviewee
Dr. Frank Uekötter
Date Created
11-9-2022
Keywords
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Subjects
History, UCF, University of Central Florida, history podcast, UCF history podcast, Knights Historycast, podcasting, Dr. Frank Uekötter, Frank Uekötter, environmental history, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, environmental historian, historian, monoculture, one-crop system, agriculture, food, modern food system, food history, food historian, Florida, Florida citrus, Florida oranges, world history, global history, environment, biological, economic perspective, humans, 21st century, underrated challenge, product, modern food production system, urban, western, societies, nation, Britain, England, boom years, population growth, historical trends, historical trajectories, research project, commodities, globalization, global context, food, analytic, scientific approach, historical approach, scientific, overproduction, trace, past, path, key moments, gap, literature, farming, farmers, growers, case studies, problems, questions, regional history, learning, climate, citrus trees, oranges, modern era, political, regimes, mythology, myth, history and myth, productivity, arguments, 1945, World War II, industry, industrialized world, Malthusian, Malthusian theory, Malthusian logic, imagery, symbolism, metaphor, process, network, system, profiting, capitalism, origin, late 19th century, 20th century, Florida Department of Agriculture, theoretical, empirical, history of crises, crisis, gender, Florida Citrus Hall of Fame, male business, soldiers, analogy, hierarchy, mastering, modern technology, machinery, knowledge, modernity, countryside, quality standards, commodity chains, consumer, consumer’s role, market, prices, outlets, quantity, notorious problems, too productive, business, juice, Swedish, American industry, Western Europe, diversity, France, Florida citrus men in France, Algeria, local stories, local history, monopolization, corporations, corporate heavyweights, companies, Coco-Cola Company, Pepsi Company, challenging, oligopolies, the state, government-sponsored, state authorities, Minute Maid, 1960, juice sector, Tropicana, Anthony T. Rossi, Florida Citrus Commission, flavor pack, controlling the tech, controlling the knowledge, history project, brutality of monoculture, infrastructure, policies, government policies, organic food, alternate options, consumer asking critical questions, consumer choices, applied ethics, intellectual challenge, open-ended history, modern history, invokes, motion, vortex, The Vortex, modern experience, disorderly story, disorderly history, a world history, environmental issues, cultural, political, social, material, technological, subversive, the tools, different type of history, conversation, complexity, generations, world society, repercussions, YouTube
Length of Episode
1:15:32
Recommended Citation
“Episode 26: Dr. Frank Uekötter and Making Sense of the Juice: Florida Oranges and the Problems of Monoculture. Plus, a Sneak Peek of His Upcoming Book, The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World,” Knights Historycast Podcast, 2022, [https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/26]