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Geography September 29, 2022

Breathing Aesthetics

Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of …
Geography September 28, 2022

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore

Abigail Perkiss

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After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012, the residents of Monmouth, Ocean, and Atlantic Counties faced an enormous and pressing question: What to do? The stories captured in this …
Geography September 16, 2022

Loving Orphaned Space

The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth

Mrill Ingram

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How we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spaces—from abandoned gas stations to polluted waterways—are created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space …
Geography September 2, 2022

Borderland

Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England

Phil Hubbard

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Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on …
Geography July 20, 2022

Plant Life

The Entangled Politics of Afforestation

Rosetta S. Elkin

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In Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation (U Minnesota Press, 2022), Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including …
Geography July 15, 2022

Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean

Pedagogy, Processes and Practices

Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson

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Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices (University of the West Indies Press, 2022) offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating a sustainable world. Lorna …
Geography July 5, 2022

The Value of a Whale

On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

Adrienne Buller

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In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the …
Geography July 1, 2022

Black to Nature

Pastoral Return and African American Culture

Stefanie K. Dunning

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In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2021), author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn …
Geography June 29, 2022

Discard Studies

Wasting, Systems, and Power

Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky

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An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly …
Geography June 17, 2022

Climate Change as Class War

Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Matthew T. Huber

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The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material …
Geography May 30, 2022

Platypus Matters

The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Jack Ashby

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Think of a platypus: they lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), they produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs and they can detect electricity. Or a wombat: their …
Geography May 23, 2022

Underflows

Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice

Cleo Wölfle Hazard

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Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice …
Geography May 16, 2022

Pipeline Populism

Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Kai Bosworth

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Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also …
Geography May 5, 2022

Building Something Better

Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change

Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

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As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities …
Geography April 29, 2022

Adrift

The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea

Tracey Williams

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In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly …
Geography April 22, 2022

How the Color Line Bends

The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America

Nina M. Yancy

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How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the connection between prejudice and place in modern America. Existing scholarship suggests that …
Geography March 29, 2022

Antarcticness

Ilan Kelman

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Ilan Kelman's book Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022) joins disciplines, communication approaches, and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarctica. Personal and professional words in poetry and prose, plus images …
Geography March 25, 2022

Georges River Blues

Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980

Heather Goodall

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Today I talked toHeather Goodall about her book Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves, and Resident Action, 1945-1980 (ANU Press, 2022).The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dharug lands, was a place …
Geography March 18, 2022

All Is Well

Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay

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All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State (Oxford UP, 2022) attempts to answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is the relationship …
Geography March 9, 2022

Radical Cartographies

Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America

Bjørn Sletto, Joe Bryan, Alfredo Wagner, and Charles Hale

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Cartography has a troubled history as a technology of power. The production and distribution of maps, often understood to be ideological representations that support the interests of their developers, have …
Geography March 2, 2022

Climate Change from the Streets

How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement

Michael Méndez

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Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement (Yale University Press, 2020) offers an urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice …
Geography January 17, 2022

Toward Camden

Mercy Romero

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In Toward Camden (Duke UP, 2021), Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where …
Geography November 30, 2021

The Sixteen-Dollar Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

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White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigrants and people of color. What does a …
Geography November 15, 2021

Climate Ghosts

Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

Nancy Langston

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In her new book Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene (Brandeis UP, 2021), environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon …