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New Books in Geography
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, “No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
No Path Home
Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement
Cornell University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 8, 2019 Anna Domdey

In No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2018), Elizabeth Cullen Dunn describes in a very on point and straight forward way how displacement has become a chronic condition for more than 60 million people. Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world... Read More
Mark Monmonier, “Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography” (ESRI Press, 2019)
Mark Monmonier
Connections and Content
Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography
ESRI Press, 2019

New 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 September 27, 2019 Steven Seegel

In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography (ESRI Press, 2019), cartographic cogitator Mark Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps through a collection of essays. Using historical maps, he explores: triangulation networks used to establish the baselines of a map’s scale;... Read More
Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi, “A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo” (AU in Cairo Press, 2018)
Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababidi
A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo

American University in Cairo Press, 2018

New Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 25, 2019 Nadirah Mansour

Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations. Whether they’re for foreigners who’ve come to the city or its residents. However, it might be safe to say that A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo (American University in Cairo Press, 2018) is a beast unto... Read More
Claudia Leal, “Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia” (U Arizona Press, 2018)
Claudia Leal
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
University of Arizona Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 23, 2019 Lisette Varon-Carvajal

Claudia Leal’s Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (University of Arizona Press, 2018), narrates the unknown history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia. Not only does Leal centers a region long neglected in histories of Colombia—and... Read More
Kyle A. Jaros, “China’s Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Kyle A. Jaros
China's Urban Champions
The Politics of Spatial Development
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 23, 2019 Ed Pulford

Discussions of China’s 21st-century ‘rise’ often focus on the country’s dazzling megacities and the dizzying pace of urbanization which has propelled their development over the past 30 years. But how and why all these cities have grown in the ways and the places that they have is not always an... Read More
Ashanté M. Reese, “Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.” (UNC Press, 2019)
Ashanté M. Reese
Black Food Geographies
Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 23, 2019 Reighan Gillam

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of... Read More
Kenneth Olwig, “The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice” (Routledge, 2019)
Kenneth Olwig
The Meanings of Landscape
Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice
Routledge, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Science & Technology September 13, 2019 Tricia Keffer

In The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice (Routledge, 2019), Kenneth Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influence from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has now come to be viewed as a form of... Read More