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Geography October 15, 2021

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

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The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new …
Geography October 6, 2021

The Nature of Space

Milton Santos

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The Nature of Space (Duke UP, 2021) is a translation (by Brenda Baletti) of pioneering geographer Milton Santos' A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offers a theory …
Geography October 6, 2021

Breathing Fire

Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California's Wildfires

Jaime Lowe

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A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires for less than a dollar an hour On February 23, 2016, Shawna Lynn Jones stepped into the …
Geography September 22, 2021

Cities in the Anthropocene

New Ecology and Urban Politics

Ihnji Jon

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Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan …
Geography September 22, 2021

Unnatural Disasters

Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed

Gonzalo Lizarralde

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Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed (Columbia UP, 2021) offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing …
Geography September 8, 2021

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Emily O'Gorman

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In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended …
Geography September 8, 2021

The Pyrocene

How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

Stephen J. Pyne

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Stephen J. Pyne's new book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (U California Press, 2021) tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species …
Geography July 27, 2021

Mapping Beyond Measure

Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity

Simon Ferdinand

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In Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (U Nebraska Press, 2019), Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in …
Geography July 20, 2021

Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene

From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures

Stacia Ryder et al.

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Through various international case studies presented by both practitioners and scholars, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures (Routledge, 2021) explores how an environmental justice approach is necessary …
Geography July 13, 2021

The Frontier Effect

State Formation and Violence in Colombia

Teo Ballvé

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In The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia (Cornell UP, 2020), Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region's violent history and unruly …
Geography July 7, 2021

Energy Islands

Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Catalina M. de Onís

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Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2021) provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective action that resists racial capitalism, colonialism …
Geography June 9, 2021

Pushed Out

Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West

Ryanne Pilgeram

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What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US …
Geography May 5, 2021

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance

Patrick Vitale

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From submarines to the suburbs--the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh's eastern …
Geography April 21, 2021

Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future

Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i

Candace Fujikane

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In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i (Duke University Press, 2021), Candace Fujikane draws upon Hawaiian stories about the land and water and their …
Geography March 30, 2021

Feminist Geography Unbound

Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures

Banu Görkariksel et al.

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Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures, edited by Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith (West Virginia University Press, 2021) is a collection of papers by a diverse …
Geography November 24, 2020

Seeds of Power

Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina

Amalia Leguizamón

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In 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops …
Geography November 23, 2020

Lessons in Environmental Justice

From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More

Michael Mascarenhas

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Michael Mascarenhas's book Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More (Sage, 2020) provides an entry point to the field by bringing together …