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April 15, 2024
Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge
In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular In…
April 14, 2024
Chinese Espresso
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas sin…
April 12, 2024
Precarious Modernities
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the po…
April 6, 2024
Frontier Fieldwork
In 1911, as China was beset with challenges, a new generation of scholars considered a new problem: what to do with former imperial borders? How could…
April 3, 2024
Our Trespasses
Greg Jarrell's book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press, 2024) uncovers how race, geography, polic…
March 23, 2024
Empirical Ecocriticism
There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; howe…
March 12, 2024
Forests of Refuge
Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield (U California Press, 2024) questions the effectiveness of mark…
March 11, 2024
Critical Campus Sustainabilities
In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse envir…
March 10, 2024
The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence
The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures (Manchester UP, 2023) asks how the city, with its spatial and tempor…
March 7, 2024
All Mapped Out
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…
February 28, 2024
Immeasurable Weather
In Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy (Duke UP, 2023), Sara J. Grossman explores how envir…
February 25, 2024
American Burial Ground
The Overland Trail into the American West is one of the most culturally recognizable symbols of the American past: white covered wagons traversing the…
February 22, 2024
Copyright and Cartography
Isabella Alexander's book Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2023) explores the inter…
February 18, 2024
Language Makes the Place
Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility. Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how languag…
February 16, 2024
Dismantling Green Colonialism
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…
February 9, 2024
The Geography of Hate
During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents deter…
February 7, 2024
The Lost Subways of North America
Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t always like this. Why…
February 2, 2024
Breaking the Gender Code
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…
January 25, 2024
The City Aroused
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…
January 24, 2024
The Cactus Hunters
Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world's most threatened species. The fervor d…