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Recent years have seen out of control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice. The widespread fires demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges listeners to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.

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Eve Darian-Smith is professor and chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies (coauthored with Philip McCarty). Brigid Lohrey is an experienced actress and audiobook narrator with over sixteen years' experience. She began narrating with the RNIB many years ago. Since then she has narrated for many different publishing houses and has a large collection of audiobooks on Audible. Genres include: wholesome romance, contemporary fiction, historical romance, chick lit, erotic romance, mystery/thriller, nonfiction, and biography. Her accent is a warm but subtle variation of her native Australian, but having trained and worked in the UK for over twenty years, she is also often booked for projects that require an authentic British RP. Brigid won an Outstanding Achievement Award for narration at the MLC Awards in 2020.

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