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Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of pla
Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or econom
China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities,
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagoni
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transfor
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) fo
Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassin
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s m
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today,
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched
In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. H
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Plac
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that ai
Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2023) is a
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote
Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creat
In Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (Unive
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is
Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Ro
Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on M
