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Geography

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Interviews with geographers about their new books.

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Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)

March 16, 2026

Climate Change and the Future of Boston

Courtney Humphries
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston cou…

Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

March 9, 2026

Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence

Sezai Ozan Zeybek
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate …

Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)

March 7, 2026

Turning Water into a Commodity

Christiane Tristl
Hosted by Abhilasha Jain

In this episode, I am in conversation with Dr Christiane Tristl, an economic geographer interested in heterodox economic geography. Their scholarship …

Lucy Lavers et al.," Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain" (Penguin, 2025)

March 6, 2026

Adventurous Vents

Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens, and Suzanna Prizeman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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…

Catherine Boland Erkkila, "Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)

March 6, 2026

Spaces of Immigration

Catherine Boland Erkkila
Hosted by Matt Wells

Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025) follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundatio…

Miles Kenney-Lazar, "Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos" (U Hawai’i Press, 2025)

March 4, 2026

Socializing Land

Miles Kenney-Lazar
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Since 2008, there has been tremendous public interest in the social and ecological ramifications of the global land rush, a rapid increase of capital …

Seth S. Tannenbaum, "Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

March 3, 2026

Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites

Seth S Tannenbaum
Hosted by Paul Knepper

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…

Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)

March 1, 2026

Cartographies of Youth Resistance

Maurice Rafael Magaña
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu

In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldw…

Jason Cons, "Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier" (U California Press, 2025)

February 23, 2026

Delta Futures

Jason Cons
Hosted by Yadong Li

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 …

Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)

February 21, 2026

The Plantation Ideal

Wendy Wolford
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered…

Eray Çayli, "Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality in Northern Kurdistan" (U Texas Press, 2025)

February 20, 2026

Earthmoving

Eray Çayli
Hosted by Ronay Bakan

Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world w…

The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization

February 17, 2026

The Far Edges of the Known World

An Interview with Owen Rees
Hosted by Maggie Freeman

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…

Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

February 8, 2026

Roadblock Politics

Peer Schouten
Hosted by Susan Thomson

Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Cent…

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, "Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)

February 5, 2026

Human Geography

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequal…

Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)

February 3, 2026

Redacted

Lisa Min, Franck Billé, and Charlene Makley
Hosted by Jolon Timms

When it comes to the political, acts of redaction, erasure, and blacking out sit in awkward tension with the myth of transparent governance, borderles…

Michael Hurley, "Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight" (NUS Press, 2025)

February 1, 2026

Waterways of Bangkok

Michael Hurley
Hosted by Patrick Jory

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: …

Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)

January 24, 2026

The City Aroused

Damon Scott
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Damon Scott is a lively histo…

Stephen Legg, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

January 23, 2026

Spaces of Anticolonialism

Stephen Legg
Hosted by Saumya Dadoo

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (U Georgia Press, 2025) is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as th…

Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)

January 18, 2026

Carbon Colonialism

Laurie Parsons

Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. Laurie Parsons's book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate …

Gonzalo Lizarralde, "Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed" (Columbia UP, 2021)

January 17, 2026

Unnatural Disasters

Gonzalo Lizarralde

Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed (Columbia UP, 2021) offers a new perspective on our most pres…