New Books in Geography

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Episodes

Total: 568

Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)
2d ago

In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examine

Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
5d ago

From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos t

Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
2025/4/22

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lauren Bridges, Assistant Professor of Media Studi

María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
2025/4/16

In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geogra

The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
2025/4/13

Geographic labels are sometimes misnomers. The Dead Sea’s name is not, for the most part. Its high s

Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
2025/3/29

The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. T

V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
2025/3/24

Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore (Cornell UP, 2024

Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
2025/3/23

A riveting expose of the global oil industry' s multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around t

Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
2025/3/19

The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate

Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
2025/3/15

Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025) by D

Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
2025/3/14

Icy, unpredictable, and treacherous, the dangers of the Yalu River were heightened in the twentieth

Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)
2025/3/12

The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhaul

Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
2025/3/8

Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies

Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
2025/3/7

California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred p

Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
2025/3/7

The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their heal

Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024)
2025/3/2

Today I talked to Marcia Bjornerud about Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (F

Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
2025/3/1

“No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the deva

Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
2025/3/1

From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know

Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
2025/2/27

Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architectur

Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
2025/2/27

In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic