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September 20, 2024
Cutting the Mass Line
On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Political Science) to talk about his new book, Cutting …
September 20, 2024
Space, Place, and Bestsellers
From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsell…
August 31, 2024
Building Stalinism
In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynthia Ruder explores how the building of the Moscow c…
August 17, 2024
The Birth of Territory
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled p…
August 16, 2024
Marrakesh and the Mountains
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into …
August 14, 2024
White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America
White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space…
August 10, 2024
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African countr…
August 8, 2024
City Steps of Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest c…
August 7, 2024
Automotive Empire
In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Andrew Denning uncovers how roads…
July 31, 2024
Roots of Power
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protec…
July 25, 2024
Past Progress
Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former…
July 24, 2024
Pivot of China
China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary o…
July 21, 2024
Making Space for the Gulf
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these cont…
July 18, 2024
Parks for Profit
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dist…
July 12, 2024
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) focuses on the intersections of three entities other…
July 11, 2024
The Story of Southeast Asia
Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political st…
July 9, 2024
The Northeast Corridor
Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far bey…
July 5, 2024
Who We Are Is Where We Are
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still cal…
July 3, 2024
Creatures of Fashion
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, …
July 3, 2024
Locusts of Power
In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and En…