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Geography
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April 12, 2026
Monarchies of Extraction
In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf States in the Global Food System (Cambridge UP, 2026) explores how the Gul…
April 3, 2026
Salt Lakes
Salt lakes are some of the most beautiful and unusual landscapes that you can find on this planet, even as they can be quite alien to people used to f…
April 3, 2026
The Citizen and the Vagabond
An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility (U Minnesota Press, 2026) d…
March 30, 2026
Rocks
What is that rock you’ve just picked up? Which minerals is it made of, what’s unique about it and what can it reveal about Earth’s deeper story? …
March 16, 2026
Climate Change and the Future of Boston
Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston cou…
March 9, 2026
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate …
March 7, 2026
Turning Water into a Commodity
In this episode, I am in conversation with Dr Christiane Tristl, an economic geographer interested in heterodox economic geography. Their scholarship …
March 6, 2026
Adventurous Vents
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy s…
March 6, 2026
Spaces of Immigration
Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025) follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundatio…
March 4, 2026
Socializing Land
Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital …
March 3, 2026
Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites
Celebrated as a democratic space for all Americans, the major league ballpark in fact privileged the middle- and upper-class white male fan while taci…
March 1, 2026
Cartographies of Youth Resistance
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldw…
February 23, 2026
Delta Futures
A free e-book version of Delta Futures is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to …
February 21, 2026
The Plantation Ideal
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered…
February 20, 2026
Earthmoving
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world w…
February 17, 2026
The Far Edges of the Known World
When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Roman…
February 8, 2026
Roadblock Politics
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Cent…
February 5, 2026
Human Geography
Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequal…
February 3, 2026
Redacted
When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles…
February 1, 2026
Waterways of Bangkok
Bangkok is one of the world’s great cities, and the central artery of that city is the Chaophraya River. Michael Hurley’s book, Waterways of Bangkok: …