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Geography 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …