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May 24, 2023
Over Researched Places
Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken
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Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken's Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach (Routledge, 2022) explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on …
Geography
May 10, 2023
Carbon Colonialism
How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown
Laurie Parsons
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Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. Laurie Parsons's book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown (Manchester UP, 2023) opens our eyes. Around the world …
Geography
April 24, 2023
Disrupting the Patrón
Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco
Joel E. Correia
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The Paraguayan Chaco is a settler frontier where cattle ranching and agrarian extractivism drive some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme land tenure inequality. Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous …
Geography
April 22, 2023
Slow Disaster
Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Mitul Baruah
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Mitul Baruah's Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam (Routledge, 2022) presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living …
Geography
April 12, 2023
The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households
Compromise, Conflict, Complicity
Kirstin Munro
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Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Kirstin Munro's book The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households (Bristol UP, 2023) describes what happens when people make interventions …
Geography
March 1, 2023
Indigenous Economics
Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
Ronald L. Trosper
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What does “development” mean for Indigenous peoples? Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands (U Arizona Press, 2022) lays out an alternative path showing that conscious attention to relationships among …
Geography
February 15, 2023
Hydronarratives
Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition
Matthew S. Henry
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The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and …
Geography
February 8, 2023
Co-Cities
Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities
Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione
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A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services. The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but …
Geography
January 25, 2023
Just One Rain Away
The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control
Stephanie C. Kane
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Stentor Danielson
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and …
Geography
January 18, 2023
Cultivating Q Methodology
Essays Honoring Steven R. Brown
James C. Rhoads, Dan B. Thomas, and Susan E. Ramlo
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Cultivating Q Methodology is a collection of essays is in honor of Professor Steven R. Brown, the preeminent scholar of Q methodology. Q methodology, innovated by the British physicist/psychologist William …
Geography
December 25, 2022
White Burgers, Black Cash
Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
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Stentor Danielson
The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community. Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted …
Geography
December 14, 2022
The Ideal River
How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order
Joanne Yao
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Stentor Danielson
Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society's relationship with the natural world into the …
Geography
December 12, 2022
Corporate Nature
An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation
Sarah Milne
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Stentor Danielson
In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. Tragic and terrible, this event magnifies a crisis in humanity’s efforts …
Geography
December 9, 2022
Climate Justice in India
Prakash Kashwan
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Stentor Danielson
Prakash Kashwan's edited volume Climate Justice in India (Cambridge UP, 2022) brings together a collective of academics, activists, and artists to paint a collage of action-oriented visions for a climate just India …
Geography
December 3, 2022
Unpayable Debt
Denise Ferreira Da Silva
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Unpayable Debt (Sternberg Press, 2022) examines the relationships among coloniality, raciality, and global capital from a black feminist “poethical” perspective. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel Kindred, in …
Geography
November 1, 2022
In the Midst of Things
The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City
Mike Owen Benediktsson
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How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and …
Geography
September 29, 2022
Breathing Aesthetics
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
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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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Stentor Danielson
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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Stentor Danielson
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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Stentor Danielson
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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Stentor Danielson
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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Stentor Danielson
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 …
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