TAI Bookshelf Podcast - The Art of [Arctic] Podcasting with Eric Paglia

This podcast microphone was (not) used for our interview with Eric Paglia. Photo: Pixabay CC

The Arctic Institute’s Bookshelf Podcast is back with its second series! This season, your favorite hosts Liubov Timonina and Romain Chuffart are joined by a new host, Saga Helgason. Together they chat with scholars and experts to make the Arctic easy and accessible to everyone. Tune in every other week and join our in-depth conversations that take you beyond the headlines and right into the latest ideas, challenges, and experiences from the Arctic.

In this week’s episode we approach the Arctic from a slightly different angle. Saga and Liuba chat with Eric Paglia, host and producer of Polar Geopolitics, about all things podcasts. The three of them talk about podcasts as a platform for learning, reaching wider audiences and engaging in insightful discussions. Eric shares his experience in radio broadcasting, and how it has helped him both professionally and personally in his own podcast. He gives us tips and tricks, and outlines topics that still need to be addressed within the Arctic community.

Eric Paglia is a researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is currently researching the history of global environmental governance as part of the project SPHERE – Study of the Planetary Human-Environment Relationship. While writing his doctoral dissertation The Northward Course of the Anthropocene, he developed a strong interest in the Arctic and in particular Svalbard, including the international research base of Ny-Ålesund, publishing several articles and book chapters on related topics. Eric has worked with radio and later with podcasts since the 1990s, and in 2018 launched the podcast Polar Geopolitics, which analyzes a wide range of issues related to the Arctic and Antarctica. He also currently produces two other podcasts: SPHERE – a podcast on the evolution of global environmental governance; and Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic.

This episode was recorded in April 2021.