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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 …
Geography November 2, 2021

The Smell of Risk

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

Hsuan L. Hsu

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Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for …
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

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 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 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 …