Geography, Enrivonment & Urban Studies Fall 2020
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Geography
A Place More Void
Animated Lands
Edited by Paul Kingsbury & Anna J. Secor
Studies in Territoriology Andrea Mubi Brighenti & Mattias Kärrholm
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth February 2021 348pp 14 photos, 8 illus., 1 map, 3 charts 9781496223661 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496222633 $99.00 / £82.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth November 2020 276pp 10 photos, 4 illus. 9781496221773 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496213396 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Presents the most in-depth and sustained engagements with the void, demonstrating how related themes such as gaps, cracks, lacks, and emptiness perforate geography’s fundamental concepts, practices, and passions.
Explores the complexity of territorial production through parallel investigations into fundamental territorial themes, such as rhythm, synchronization, melody, and animism.
Buffalo at the Crossroads
Captain Cook Rediscovered
The Past, Present, and Future of American Urbanism
Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes David L. Nicandri
September 2020 400pp 31 b&w photos 9780774862226 £29.99 / $45.00 HB UBC PRESS
Edited by Peter H. Christensen
October 2020 336pp 96 b&w hts., 1 map 9781501749773 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781501749766 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This first modern study to focus on James Cook’s polar adventures, Captain Cook Rediscovered introduces an entirely new explorer who is more at home along the edge of the polar ice packs than the Pacific’s sandy beaches. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
A diverse set of cutting-edge essays, highlighting the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism.
Chicago’s Industrial Decline
Gardens of Gold
Place-Making in Papua New Guinea Jamon Alex Halvaksz Foreword & Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan
The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975 Robert Lewis
December 2020 272pp 13 b&w hts., 1 map 9781501752629 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature September 2020 248pp 4 b&w illus., 7 maps, 5 charts, 8 tables 9780295747590 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Charts the city’s decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago’s famed (and reviled) growth machine.
Drawing from ethnographic research, examines the role of place in informing indigenous relationships with conservation and development.
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Immigrant Crossroads
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York
Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists Wazhmah Osman
Edited by Tarry Hum, Ron Hayduk, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. & Michael Alan Krasner
The Geopolitics of Information December 2020 208pp 9780252085451 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252043550 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
January 2021 368pp 9781439915943 £34.00 / $42.95 PB 9781439915936 £92.00 / $115.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Places television at the heart of public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Examines the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from the fastgrowing urbanization of Queens, New York. Excludes Asia Pacific
The Business of Leisure
Voluminous States
Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean Edited by Andrew Grant Wood
Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination Edited by Franck Billé Afterword by Debbora Battaglia
January 2021 366pp 28 photos, 12 illus., 3 maps, 1 graph 9781496223401 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496213228 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
August 2020 304pp 13 illus. 9781478008422 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478007913 £90.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Urban
Critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hospitality industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the threedimensional nature of modern territorial governance.
A Bounded Land
Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada R. Cole Harris
November 2020 304pp 4 colour photos, 14 maps, 3 tables 9780774864411 £26.99 / $39.95 HB UBC PRESS
Canada’s preeminent historical geographer traces how Canada’s geographical limitations have shaped the nature of its settler societies – from first contacts, to dispossession, to our current age of reconciliation. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Are We There Yet?
The Myths and Realities of Autonomous Vehicles Edited by Michael A. Pagano
The Urban Agenda September 2020 120pp 9780252085468 £14.99 / $20.00 PB 9780252043567 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
This new volume in the Urban Agenda series examines the technological questions still surrounding autonomous vehicles and the uncertain societal and legislative impact of widespread Autonomous Vehicle (AV) adoption. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Changing Neighbourhoods
Chasing World-Class Urbanism
Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities Edited by Jill Grant, Alan Walks & Howard Ramos
Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires Jacob Lederman Globalization and Community July 2020 272pp 37 b&w illus., 2
October 2020 348pp 26 maps, 20 charts, 7 colour photos, 21 tables 9780774862035 £26.99 / $43.95 PB UBCPRESS
tables, 3 maps 9781517908829 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517908812 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Offers insights into how Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Explores the influence of Northern nongovernmental organizations and multilateral agencies on a prominent city of the global South. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Design, Control, Predict
Digital Lives in the Global City
Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro
Contesting Infrastructures Edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis & Brett Story
December 2020 344pp 15 b&w illus. 9781517908270 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517908263 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 288pp 70 b&w photos, 3 maps, 2 charts, 4 tables 9780774862387 £26.99 / $39.95 PB UBC PRESS
Technology has fundamentally transformed urban life. But today’s “smart” cities look little like what experts had predicted. Aaron Shapiro shows us the true face of the revolution in urban technology, taking the reader on a tour of today’s smart city. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Asks how digital technologies are remaking urban life around the world. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Implementing City Sustainability
Modern Mobility Aloft
Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America Amy D. Finstein
Overcoming Administrative Silos to Achieve Functional Collective Action
Rachel M. Krause, Christopher Hawkins & Richard C. Felock
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy October 2020 320pp 9781439919187 £22.99 / $29.95 PB 9781439919170 £92.00 / $115.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 276pp 9781439919217 £26.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439919200 £88.00 / $110.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Excludes Asia Pacific
Examines how city governments pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. Excludes Asia Pacific
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New Towns for the Twenty-First Century
Philadelphia Battlefields
A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide Edited by Richard Peiser & Ann Forsyth
Disruptive Campaigns and Upset Elections in a Changing City John Kromer
The City in the Twenty-First Century December 2020 600pp 132 illus. 9780812251913 £44.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
August 2020 344pp 9781439919729 £30.00 / $37.95 PB 9781439919712 £92.00 / $115.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Considers key local campaigns undertaken in Philadelphia from 1951 to 2019 that were extraordinarily successful despite the opposition of the city's political establishment. Excludes Asia Pacific
New Towns for the Twenty-First Century considers the ideals behind new-town development, the practice of building them, and their outcomes.
Planning on the Edge
Public Gardens and Livable Cities
Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development Edited by Penny Gurstein & Tom Hutton
Partnerships Connecting People, Plants, and Place Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Gough & Sharon Lee Foreword by Scot Medbury
August 2020 352pp 13 tables, 9 maps, 6 charts, 4 b&w photos 9780774861670 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
November 2020 222pp 35 b&w hts. 9781501702594 £18.99 / $23.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Changes the paradigm for how we conceive of the role of urban public gardens. Advocates for public gardens as community outreach agents that can support positive local agendas.
Highlights the policies needed to reorient Vancouver’s development trajectory along a more environmentally sound and equitable path. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Salut!
Scammer’s Yard
France Meets Philadelphia Lynn Miller & Therese Dolan
The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis
November 2020 480pp 9781439917121 £32.00 / $40.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 216pp 9781517909987 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909970 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
One highly visible example of French influence on the city of Philadelphia is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, modeled on the Champs-Élysées. In Salut!, Lynn Miller and Therese Dolan trace the fruitful, threecenturies-long relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and France. Excludes Asia Pacific
This innovative ethnography tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Spacing Debt
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification
Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine Christopher Harker
People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020
Dennis E. Gale
December 2020 216pp 10 illus. 9781478010968 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009900 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy February 2021 250pp 9781439920435 £24.99 / $32.95 PB 9781439920428 £83.00 / $104.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social Provides a recontextualization of American one. Harker traces the emergence of debt in gentrification, planning, and policymaking. Ramallah after 2008 as part of the financialization Excludes Asia Pacific of the Palestinian economy under Israeli settler colonialism.
Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade Rosemary-Claire Collard
Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It Matthew Spady
September 2020 200pp 22 illus. 9781478010920 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009894 £79.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 320pp 9780823289424 £26.99 / $34.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tells the tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today.
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital. She calls for a “wild life” politics in which animals are no longer enclosed and can live for the sake of themselves.
Beyond the World’s End
Biopolitics of the MoreThan-Human
Arts of Living at the Crossing T. J. Demos
Forensic Ecologies of Violence Joseph Pugliese
September 2020 264pp 55 illus. 9781478009573 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478008668 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise November 2020 312pp 5 illus. 9781478008026 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478007678 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes.
Examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that morethan-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice.
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Environment
Animal Traffic
The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot
Bolivia in the Age of Gas
Bringing Whales Ashore
Bret Gustafson
September 2020 304pp 29 illus. 9781478010999 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478009931 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan Jakobina K. Arch Foreword by & Series edited by Paul S. Sutter
Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, Gustafson argues that fossil fuel political economies world-wide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism and suggests that progressive change demands moving beyond fossil-fuel dependence and the social and ecological ills that come with it.
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2020 272pp 16 b&w illus., 3 maps 9780295748108 £22.99 / $30.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Shows that the organized, shore-based whaling that developed during the Tokugawa period bore little resemblance to modern Japanese whaling.
Captain Cook Rediscovered
Cultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape Sarah R. Hamilton Foreword & Series edited by Paul S. Sutter
Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes David L. Nicandri
September 2020 400pp 31 b&w photos 9780774862226 £29.99 / $45.00 HB UBC PRESS
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2020 312pp 21 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts 9780295748092 £22.99 / $30.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
This first modern study to focus on James Cook’s polar adventures, Captain Cook Rediscovered introduces an entirely new explorer who is more at home along the edge of the polar ice packs than the Pacific’s sandy beaches. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Explores the Albufera’s contested lands and waters, which have supported and been transformed by human activity, in order to understand regional and global social histories.
Drawing the Sea Near
Embattled River
Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus
The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism David Schuyler
November 2020 256pp 16 b&w illus. 9781517906627 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517906610 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
October 2020 280pp 20 b&w hts., 1 map 9781501752070 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the 1950s, showing that the environmental victories on the Hudson had a broad impact across the United States.
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Fixing Niagara Falls
Exile from the Grasslands Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects Jarmila Ptáčková, Series edited by Stevan Harrell
Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World s Daniel Macfarlane
Studies on Ethnic Groups in China December 2020 176pp 17 b&w illus., 5 maps, 1 table 9780295748191 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748184 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
UBC PRESS
Since the late 19th century, Niagara Falls has been engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. This book reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Documents the viewpoints of those affected by the Great Opening of the West—Tibetan pastoralists in Qinghai Province and the Chinese officials charged with relocating them.
Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles
Fossilized
Environmental Policy in Canada’s Petro-Provinces Angela V. Carter
The Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest Eunice Blavascunas
Nature | History | Society October 2020 186pp 7 charts 9780774863520 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
September 2020 236pp 20 b&w illus., 1 map 9780253049605 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9780253049582 £62.00 / $75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador – blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 – undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Provides an intimate ethnographic account of Europe’s last primeval forest, gathered in more than 20 years of research, to untangle complex forest conflicts between protection and use.
Greening East Asia
The Rise of the Ecodevelopmental State Edited by Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis & Stevan Harrell
November 2020 264pp 2 b&w illus., 5 maps, 15 charts, 9 tables 9780295747910 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747903 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Explores a region’s shift from development to “eco-development” in acknowledgment that environmental sustainability is a critical component of economic growth.
Nature | History | Society September 2020 274pp 47 colour photos, 2 maps, 1 table 9780774864220 £60.00 / $89.95 HB
Herring and People of the North Pacific
Sustaining a Keystone Species Thomas F. Thornton & Madonna L. Moss
January 2021 342pp 3 maps, 4 charts, 5 tables, 14 b&w illus. 9780295748290 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748283 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
This book traces fishery development in Southeast Alaska from precontact Indigenous relationships with herring to postcontact focus on herring products.
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Mountains of Blame
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic
Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands Will Smith, Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Peter C. Mancall
The Early Modern Americas October 2020 212pp 12 color, 51 b/w illus. 9780812224726 £18.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature December 2020 192pp 9 b&w illus., 1 map, 2 tables 9780295748160 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295748153 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Reveals how Europeans and Native Americans devised ways to understand the environment. Drawing on paintings, oral history, and other cultural artifacts, Mancall argues that human understanding of nature played a central role in the emergence of the modern world.
Smith asks how those who have contributed least to environmental degradation have come to position themselves as culpable for the devastating impacts of climate change.
Radioactive Ghosts
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
Gabriele Schwab
Posthumanities October 2020 320pp 23 b&w illus. 9781517907839 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517907822 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India James Staples, Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate. Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the littleseen sides of our nuclear world. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Culture, Place, and Nature November 2020 256pp 11 b&w illus. 9780295747873 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Staples charts how cattle owners, brokers, butchers, cooks, and occasional beef eaters navigate the contemporary political and cultural climate of bovine politics.
Seeds of Power
The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive WorldMaking
Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina Amalia Leguizamón
Joseph Masco
October 2020 224pp 18 illus. 9781478010852 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478009788 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 440pp 152 illus. 9781478011149 £24.99 / $30.95 PB 9781478010081 £95.00 / $114.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Amalia Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates.
Examines the psychosocial, material, and affective consequences of the advent of nuclear weapons, the Cold War security state, climate change on contemporary US democratic practices and public imaginaries.
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The Power of Deserts
The Probiotic Planet
Climate Change, the Middle East, and the Promise of a PostOil Era Dan Rabinowitz
Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer
Posthumanities November 2020 344pp 30 b&w illus. 9781517909215 £21.99 / $28.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
August 2020 152pp 9781503609983 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Surveys regional climate models and identifies the potential impact on socioeconomic disparities, population movement, and political instability. The book highlights a potentially brighter future—a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy.
The Sustainability Myth
The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven
Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice Melissa Checker
Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection Mark Driscoll
October 2020 272pp 9781479855278 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479835089 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 352pp 22 illus. 9781478011217 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478010166 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs—and contradictions—of New York City’s ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Examines Western imperialism in East Asia and the devastating effects of “climate caucasianism”—the West’s racialized pursuit of capital at the expense of people of color, women, and the environment.
Thinking Like a Climate
Timescales
Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change Hannah Knox
Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Edited by Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff & Patricia Eunji Kim
October 2020 336pp 15 illus. 9781478010869 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478009818 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 232pp 29 b&w illus., 9 color plates 9781517909420 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909413 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.
Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Recent highlights: Geography
Arkography
Communist Pigs
A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted Gunnar Olsson
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth May 2020 228pp 8 photos, 25 illus., 11 charts 9781496220295 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781496219473 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who travels down the Red River Valley, navigates the Kantian Island of Truth, and takes a housetour through the Crystal Palace.
An Animal History of East Germany’s Rise and Fall Thomas Fleischman, Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books June 2020 296pp 19 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295747309 £32.00 / $40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Chronicles East Germany’s journey from family farms to factory farms, explaining how communist principles shaped the adoption of industrial agriculture practices.
Red Gold
The Buddha’s Footprint
The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca
An Environmental History of Asia Johan Elverskog
May 2020 304pp 9781517908515 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781517908508 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Encounters with Asia February 2020 192pp 32 illus. 9780812251838 £45.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Demonstrates how the spread of Buddhist teachings, the extension of Buddhist trading networks, and the increase of Buddhist state power were intimately connected to agricultural expansion, resource extraction, deforestation, urbanization, and the radical transformation and exploitation of Asia’s environment.
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Kregg Hetherington
May 2020 296pp 1 illus. 9781478006893 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478006060 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center Harriet Evans
Uses Paraguay’s turn of the twenty-first century adoption of massive soybean production and the regulatory attempts to mitigate the resulting environmental degradation as a way to show how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbate the very environmental challenges they were designed to solve.
May 2020 288pp 27 illus. 9781478008156 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478006879 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Since the 2008 Olympics, most of Dashalar’s original inhabitants have been relocated, displaced by gentrification. Harriet Evans captures the last gasps of subaltern life here. She draws on oral histories that reveal memories and experiences of several neighborhood families.
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Recent highlights: Urban
Beijing from Below
The Government of Beans
Neoliberal Cities
The Remaking of Postwar Urban America
Edited by Andrew J. Diamond & Thomas J. Sugrue NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
August 2020 240pp 9781479832378 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479828821 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Urban Formalism
The Work of City Reading David Faflik
Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies April 2020 144pp 9780823287680 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780823288045 £84.00 / $105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it Through richly told case studies, Neoliberal Cities meant to “read” a brave new urban world during provides the necessary context to understand the the transformative middle decades of the always intensifying racial and economic inequality nineteenth century. in and around the city center. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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