New Books in Geography
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Jeremy Black, "Geopolitics and the Quest for Do...
Black argues that just as the perception of power is central to issues of power, so place, and its constraints and relationships, is partly a matter of perception, not merely map coordinates...
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Amalia Leguizamón, "Seeds of Power: Environment...
Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates...
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Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Ic...
The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...
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Michael Mascarenhas, "Lessons in Environmental ...
Mascarenhas provides an entry point to the field by bringing together the works of individuals who are creating a new and vibrant wave of environmental justice scholarship. methodology, and activism....
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M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas ...
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements...
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L. L. Paterson and I. N. Gregory, "Representati...
Paterson and Gregory explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty....
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Matthew Hart, "Extraterritorial: A Political Ge...
Hart explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space that goes beyond the limits of visible geographical borders and legal regulations...
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Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geograph...
The book draws on ethnographic research in Manchester and Leipzig, comparting and contrasting two nations, two educational systems, and two cities, to show the different approaches to training and supporting contemporary culture...
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Doug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Da...
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern...
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Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., "Where Caciques and Map...
Erbig charts the interplay between imperial and indigenous spatial imaginaries and shows the critical role that indigenous actors played in imperial border-making between the Spanish and the Portuguese in the Río de la Plata region during the mid-to-late eighteenth century...
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Dylon Robbins, "Audible Geographies in Latin Am...
What is the relationship between race, technology and sound?
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Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
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Daniel Macfarlane, "Fixing Niagara Falls: Envir...
The first people to record their reactions to the falls in North America were fascinated by its beauty and power...
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Benjamin D. Hopkins, "Ruling the Savage Periphe...
Intrinsic to the practice of empire is the creation of boundaries...
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John W. Traphagan, "Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depo...
Traphagan presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of small-business entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of contemporary rural Japan...
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E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Tra...
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S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fas...
Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,
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Brian Eyler, "Last Days of the Mighty Mekong" (...
Eyler documents the huge disruption, both to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the lives of the people who depend on it, caused by rampant dam construction, tourism development, pollution, not to mention climate change...
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Sai Balakrishnan, "Shareholder Cities: Land Tra...
Balakrishnan examines the novel phenomenon of the conversion of agrarian landowners into urban shareholders in India’s newly emerging “corridor cities.”
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Molly Loberg, "The Struggle for the Streets of ...
In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce.
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N. Detering and I. Walser-Bürgler, "Contesting ...
While the term ‘Europe’ was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained a prevalence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which it did not possess before...
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Katherine Zien, "Sovereign Acts: Performing Rac...
Zien examines the ways politicians, activists, artists, and residents performed and interpreted sovereignty in the Canal Zone...
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Sandra Postel, "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle o...
To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....
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Thaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbar...
Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history...
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Sara Smith, "Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territ...
Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...
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