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Lukas Engelmann, “Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Lukas Engelmann
Mapping AIDS
Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network April 17, 2019 Mikey McGovern

What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon? Who mobilizes these representations, and to what end? In Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (Cambridge UP, 2018), Lukas Engelmann uses AIDS atlases to show how different kinds of visualization mapped on to different ideas of how... Read More
Shonaleeka Kaul, “The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Shonaleeka Kaul
The Making of Early Kashmir
Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 11, 2019 Arpita Mitra

Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural historian of early South Asia specializing in working with Sanskrit texts. She is Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has worked extensively on Sanskrit kavya, a genre of highly aesthetic poetry and prose. She is the author of... Read More
Natalie Koch, “Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power, and Sport in Global Perspective” (Routledge, 2017)
Natalie Koch
Critical Geographies of Sport
Space, Power, and Sport in Global Perspective
Routledge, 2017

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in SportsNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network March 12, 2019 Keith Rathbone

Today we are joined by Natalie Koch, Associate Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and editor of Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power, and Sport in Global Perspective (Routledge, 2017).  In our conversation, we discuss the growing field of critical sports... Read More
Thomas F. Gieryn, “Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe” (U Chicago, 2018)
Thomas F. Gieryn
Truth-Spots
How Places Make People Believe
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network March 5, 2019 Michael O. Johnston

Is the existence of truth coming to a screeching halt? Does truth still exist? In Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Dr. Thomas F. Gieryn takes time to explain how place informs truth. During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history... Read More
Chet Van Duzer, “Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence” (Springer, 2019)
Chet Van Duzer
Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence
Springer, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 1, 2019 Peter Ekman

Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniquely important map produced in early modern Europe. The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object,” its legends and descriptions illegible to the unaugmented eye. Now, aided... Read More