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November 26, 2024
Sensing Others
How do we confront difference and change in a rapidly shifting environment? Many indigenous peoples are facing this question in their daily lives. Sen…
November 22, 2024
Blackdom, New Mexico
By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black c…
November 21, 2024
The Center of the World
Whether it’s in commerce or conflict, today’s world pays rapt attention to the Persian Gulf. But the centrality of the Gulf to world history stretches…
November 21, 2024
Island
Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, …
November 20, 2024
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere
What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or su…
November 15, 2024
The Pulse of the Earth
In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from t…
November 5, 2024
Four Points of the Compass
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting w…
November 1, 2024
Go to Hell
With Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations (National Geographic, 2024) by Erika Engelhaupt, you can go to hell and …
October 31, 2024
Atlas of Finance
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of financ…
October 25, 2024
Atmospheric Violence
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed c…
October 20, 2024
Mobile Hollywood
What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production (U California Press, 2024), Kevin Sanson, Professor…
October 16, 2024
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024) by Dr. Alistair Bonnett is a meticulously curated selection of 40 maps that spans the…
October 15, 2024
The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales
What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Furlon…
October 13, 2024
Apartheid Remains
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopoli…
October 12, 2024
Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth
The 13 essays collected in Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium (Mythopoeic Press, 2024) foregr…
October 11, 2024
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kit…
October 9, 2024
On the Swamp
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwor…
October 9, 2024
Framing Nature
Perhaps no American landscape is as iconic as the rainbow rocks of Arizona's Grand Canyon. Yet, as the geographer Yolonda Youngs argues, the Grand Can…
October 6, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…
October 2, 2024
The Cities We Need
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take some…