New Books in Geography

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Episodes

Total: 543

Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000" (Intellect, 2017)
2018/12/28

While most every live-action film takes place in a specific location, the role of these places has n

McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
2018/12/6

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who

D.A. Silver and T.N. Clark, "Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
2018/12/5

I don’t mean to make a scene, but please open your eyes and look around. There are complex scenes ev

G. Mitman, M. Armiero and R. S. Emmett (eds.), “Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
2018/8/29

Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2018) cu

Jim Clifford, “West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshlands, 1839-1914” (UBC Press, 2017)
2018/8/24

In West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshla

William D. Bryan, “The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
2018/8/23

Southern capitalists of the postbellum era have been called many things, but never conservationists.

Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)
2018/8/16

Inspired by the usage of the term ‘enclosure’ to describe the Separation Wall in Israel-Palestine on

Kate McDonald, “Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan” (U California Press, 2017)
2018/8/1

Kate McDonald‘s Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of C

Clayton Nall, “The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermine Cities” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
2018/7/19

Several recent guests on New Books in Political Science have talked about the path to political pola

Laura Robson, “States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (U California Press, 2017)
2018/7/12

The First World War ended over four centuries of Middle East rule by the expansive, multiethnic, mul

Cynthia A. Ruder, “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
2018/7/5

In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynth

Amanda Huron, “Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.” (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
2018/6/21

Is modern capitalism too far advanced in the U.S. to create common property regimes? Are there model

Rob Sullivan, “The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given” (U Georgia Press, 2017)
2018/6/20

How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding

Caitlin DeSilvey, “Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
2018/5/4

In Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), geographer Caitlin D

Brian Tochterman, “The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear” (UNC Press, 2017)
2018/4/23

What does it mean to say that a city can “die”? As Brian Tochterman shows in this compelling intelle

Alison B. Hirsch, “City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America” (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
2018/4/16

Lawrence Halprin, one of the central figures in twentieth-century American landscape architecture, i

Timothy Neale, “Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
2018/4/2

In Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia (University of Hawaii

Natchee Blu Barnd, “Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism” (Oregon State UP, 2017)
2018/3/29

In Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (Oregon State University Pres

Elizabeth Catte, “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia” (Belt Publishing, 2018)
2018/3/8

There is an alarming tendency to paint some topics with a broad brush, allowing for easy understandi

Jo Woolf, “The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration” (Sandstone Press, 2018)
2018/3/2

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