New Books in Geography

Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, and James McCarthy, eds., “The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology” (Routledge, 2015)

2015/6/10

Political ecology is among the most vibrant sub-fields in the discipline of geography. Since the fie

Benjamin Schmidt, “Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

2015/5/19

Benjamin Schmidt‘s beautiful new book argues that a new form of exoticism emerged in the Netherlands

Julie Sze, “Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis” (U of California Press, 2015)

2015/5/19

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an am

Finis Dunaway, “Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images” (

2015/5/11

Oil-soaked birds in Prince William Sound. The “crying Indian” in a 1970s anti-littering ad. A lonely

Deborah Cowen, “The Deadly Life of Logistics” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

2015/5/9

Our guest today tells us that the seemingly straightforward field of logistics lies at the heart of

Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction” (Columbia UP, 2014)

2015/4/17

Thom van Dooren‘s new book is an absolute must-read. (I was going to qualify that with a “…for anyon

Amanda Rogers, “Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geographies of Performance” (Routledge, 2015)

2015/3/25

Identity, performance and globalisation are at the heart of the cultural practices interrogated by A

Carolyn Finney, “Black Faces, White Spaces” (UNC Press, 2014)

2015/3/17

Geographer Carolyn Finney wrote Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African A

Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (

2015/3/11

Evolution is among the most powerful ideas in the natural sciences. Indeed, the evolutionary theoris

Anne Knowles, Mastering Iron (U of Chicago Press, 2013) and Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2014)

2015/1/30

Last month on New Books in Geography, historian Susan Schulten discussed the development of thematic

Susan Schulten, “Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

2014/12/12

Our everyday lives are saturated with maps. We use maps on our smart phones to help us navigate from

Matthew Huber, “Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital” (U of Minnesota Press, 2013)

2014/10/17

Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) is an incis

Tariq Jazeel, “Sacred Modernity: Nature, Environment, and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan Nationhood” (Liverpool UP, 2013)

2014/10/16

Ruhuna National Park and ‘tropical modernism’ architecture are aesthetically analysed in Sacred Mode

Episodes

Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, and James McCarthy, eds., “The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology” (Routledge, 2015)

Benjamin Schmidt, “Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Julie Sze, “Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis” (U of California Press, 2015)

Finis Dunaway, “Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images” (

Deborah Cowen, “The Deadly Life of Logistics” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction” (Columbia UP, 2014)

Amanda Rogers, “Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geographies of Performance” (Routledge, 2015)

Carolyn Finney, “Black Faces, White Spaces” (UNC Press, 2014)

Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” (

Anne Knowles, Mastering Iron (U of Chicago Press, 2013) and Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2014)

Susan Schulten, “Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Matthew Huber, “Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital” (U of Minnesota Press, 2013)

Tariq Jazeel, “Sacred Modernity: Nature, Environment, and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan Nationhood” (Liverpool UP, 2013)

Stephen Legg, “Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India” (Duke UP, 2014)

Gregory Smits, “Seismic Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)

Silver Donald Cameron, “The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics where the Land Meets the Sea” (Red Deer Press, 2014)

Bradley Garrett, “Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City” (Verso, 2013)

John R. Gillis, “The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Timothy J. Brook, “Mr. Selden’s Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer” (Bloomsbury, 2013)

Giancarlo Casale, “The Ottoman Age of Exploration” (Oxford UP, 2010)