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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, “Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present” (UNC Press, 2020)
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Landscape of Migration
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
University of North Carolina Press, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 28, 2020 Elena McGrath

Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (UNC Press, 2020), traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia during the twentieth century, exploring how each of these communities forged and contested the landscape of agrarian citizenship in... Read More
Alexander Bukh, “These Islands Are Ours” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Alexander Bukh
These Islands Are Ours
The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network May 28, 2020 Nathan Hopson

Alexander Bukh’s These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia (Stanford University Press 2020) provides critical historical perspective on the social construction of territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia. In his analysis of Japan’s rows over the “Northern Territories” (with Russia),... Read More
Kory E. Olson, “The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris” (Liverpool UP, 2018)
Kory E. Olson
The Cartographic Capital
Mapping Third Republic Paris
Liverpool University Press, 2018

New Books in French StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network May 18, 2020 Roxanne Panchasi

When is the last time you looked at/consulted a paper map? Perhaps you have one hanging on a wall at home or work, framed or not. Or maybe you have some old road maps in a stack somewhere, as I do, sitting untouched since various digital forms have made printed... Read More
David Ambaras, “Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
David R. Ambaras
Japan’s Imperial Underworlds
Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 12, 2020 Nathan Hopson

Through a series of provocative case studies on mobility, transgression, and intimacy, David Ambaras’s Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018) interrogates the spatial and ideological formations of modern Japan in its first seven decades or so as a nation-state and empire, especially... Read More
Sheetal Chhabria, “Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay” (U Washington Press, 2019)
Sheetal Chhabria
Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
University of Washington Press, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 8, 2020 Aparna Gopalan

In the 1870s, as colonial India witnessed some of the worst famines in its history where 6-10 million perished, observers watched in astonishment as famished people set out for the city of Bombay on foot in human caravans thousands of people long. Recently, images of a similar scale of deprivation... Read More
Alex Jeffrey, “The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Alex Jeffrey
The Edge of Law
Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 29, 2020 Dino Kadich

What happens when a court tries to become a “new” court? What happens to the many artifacts of its history—previous laws and jurisprudence, the building that it inhabits, the people who weave in and out of it? This is the question that grounds Alex Jeffrey’s new book, The Edge of... Read More
Jacob Blanc, “Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil” (Duke UP, 2019)
Jacob Blanc
Before the Flood
The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network April 22, 2020 Elena McGrath

Jacob Blanc’s Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019) tells the story of the the Itaipu dam, a massive hydroelectric complex built on the Brazil-Paraguay border in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is structurally and conceptually ambitious, but so readable... Read More
Maura Finkelstein, “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2019)
Maura Finkelstein
The Archive of Loss
Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 13, 2020 Sneha Annavarapu

Mumbai’s textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke University Press, 2019), Maura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers—who are assumed not to exist—to live and work during... Read More

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