New Books in Geography
Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 585
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Critics of globalisation come in many forms from environmentalists to trade unionists and many others in between. In the midst of all the controversy less attention has been paid to how big a phenome…
00:44:08 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (U California Press, 2022), anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern …
00:57:46 |
Sun 18 Dec 2022
Off-Shore Aesthetics
Sritama Chatterjee talks about a model of literary criticism that she developed in the process of writing her new essay on shipbreaking in Bangladesh. It is a form of materialist understanding for te…
00:20:23 |
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Sarah Milne, "Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
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 hu…
00:51:56 |
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)
The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022).…
00:41:59 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
Prakash Kashwan, "Climate Justice in India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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 cli…
00:57:24 |
Fri 09 Dec 2022
Ted Conover, "Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge" (Knopf, 2022)
Today I talked to Ted Conover, author of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge (Knopf, 2022)
In May 2017, Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about…
00:52:47 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create the notion of the individual in law, delininating …
00:52:54 |
Sat 03 Dec 2022
Denise Ferreira Da Silva, "Unpayable Debt" (Sternberg Press, 2022)
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 …
00:47:51 |
Sat 03 Dec 2022
Chris McMorran, "Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Today I talked to Chris McMorran about his new book Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2022).
Amid the decline of many of Japan’s rural communities, the hot springs villag…
00:35:53 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass a ru…
00:28:42 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
94 Elizabeth Kolbert on the Nature of the Future (GT, JP, NS, HY)
How should humans respond to our ongoing human-made climate catastrophe? To answer that question, Recall this Book turned to prize-winning climate reporter Elizabeth Kolbert, who visited Brandeis thi…
00:45:20 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
Jillian Schwedler, "Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central…
00:40:49 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urb…
00:50:32 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
John Keay, "Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
“History has not been kind to Himalaya,” writes historian and travel writer John Keay in his latest book Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). The region, nestled b…
00:43:41 |
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Michael A. Verney, "A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Dr. Michael A. Verney illuminates the unexplored early decades of the Un…
00:49:02 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Caroline Roope, "The History of the London Underground Map" (Pen and Sword Transport, 2022)
Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London’s iconic ‘Tube’ map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in a…
01:00:15 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Natalie Koch, "Spatializing Authoritarianism" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
How do authoritarian political leaders use the built environment to shape understandings of national identity and history? How do major urban development projects affect the political fortunes of aut…
01:14:25 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration…
01:00:07 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Thomas G. Cowan, "Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Neoliberal Indian City" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment and transfer state …
01:06:23 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
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