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There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; howe…
Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield (U California Press, 2024) questions the effectiveness of mark…
In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envir…
The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures (Manchester UP, 2023) asks how the city, with its spatial and tempor…
Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mike Duggan is an exploration o…
In Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy (Duke UP, 2023), Sara J. Grossman explores how envir…
The Overland Trail into the American West is one of the most culturally recognizable symbols of the American past: white covered wagons traversing the…
Isabella Alexander's book Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2023) explores the inter…
Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility. Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how languag…
Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate ju…
During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents deter…
Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t always like this. Why…
From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle--and not so subtle--messages that they shouldn't be in public. Or, if they wer…
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…
Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world's most threatened species. The fervor d…
There is a growing need across social, environmental, and policy challenges for richer, more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory understanding o…
The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration (University of Chicago…
In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography (ESRI Press, 2019), cartographic cogitator Mark Monmonier shares hi…
How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do rese…
Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants are seen to present problems, …