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
Tim Cresswell, "Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell S…
01:02:31 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Zeynep Kaya, "Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Since the early twentieth-century, Kurds have challenged the borders and national identities of the states they inhabit. Nowhere is this more evident than in their promotion of the 'Map of Greater Ku…
00:50:25 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis" (Cornell UP, 2020)
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, space, an…
00:53:05 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
A Road into the Past: Reading a 19th-Century Illustrated Map of the Himalayas
The British Library preserves a unique collection of pictorial maps and descriptions of places and cultures along the road from Lhasa to Leh.
But finding the people behind this collection and decodin…
00:23:57 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
What can Shakespeare tell us about territory, and what can territory tell us about Shakespeare?
In Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political…
00:43:21 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Jeremy Black, "Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance" (Indiana UP, 2016)
History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy from the spatial angle, Je…
01:05:50 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
Amalia Leguizamón, "Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina" (Duke UP, 2020)
In 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops. Its …
01:01:33 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
Michael Mascarenhas, "Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More" (Sage, 2020)
Michael Mascarenhas's book Lessons in Environmental Justice: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More (Sage, 2020) provides an entry point to the field by bringing together the works …
00:41:55 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland" (D. S. Brewer, 2020)
The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, sci…
01:06:56 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
M. Wodziński and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large-f…
00:44:37 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
L. L. Paterson and I. N. Gregory, "Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques…
00:45:01 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Matthew Hart, "Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020) explores how texts—literary and visual—help us engage with the space that goes beyond the limits of v…
00:50:29 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
What is an art school? In Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Dr Silvie Jacobi, a researcher and head of education at London School o…
00:39:48 |
Tue 03 Nov 2020
Doug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping" (U London Press, 2020)
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the s…
01:15:25 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., "Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in 18th-Century South America" (UNC Press, 2020)
In his new book, Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America (UNC Press, 2020), Dr. Jeffrey Erbig charts the interplay between imperial and indigenous spatial …
01:11:43 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Dylon Robbins, "Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
What is the relationship between race, technology and sound? How can we access the ways that Latin Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries thought about, and importantly, heard, race? In his b…
00:55:04 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world’s most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by…
00:44:51 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Daniel Macfarlane, "Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall" (UBC Press, 2020)
Water and diplomatic historian Dan MacFarlane has written a fascinating book on a fundamental debate in environmental history: What is a natural landscape? Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, …
00:59:42 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
John W. Traphagan, "Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan" (Cambria Press, 2020)
John W. Traphagan’s Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan (Cambria Press, 2020) presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of small-b…
01:42:56 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
Benjamin D. Hopkins, "Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Intrinsic to the practice of empire is the creation of boundaries. We tend to think of such boundaries as borders, physical lines of demarcation past which the empire’s sovereignty has no purchase. B…
01:25:23 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
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