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Atmospheric Violence
Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Omer Aijazi
Contemporary Ethnography
June 2024 296pp 30 b&w illus.
9781512823608 £27.99/ $32.50 PB
9781512823615 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Kashmir, this book takes us to two remote mountainous valleys to discover the movements, flows, and intimacies sustained by a landscape. Through a series of interconnected scenes from the lives of five protagonists Aijazi explores those who do not subscribe to the rules.
Broken City Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis
Patrick Condon
May 2024 250pp 54 b&w photos, 8 charts, 3 maps, 1 table
9780774869553 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Many immigrants, racialized minorities, young people, and service workers are barred from joining the middle classes as they cannot build wealth through home ownership. Wages for workers stay flat, while housing costs multiply. What can be done? Condon offers several examples of how cities have reclaimed land wealth from speculators and individuals for the common good and proposes a range of solutions.
Camera Geologica
An Elemental History of Photography
Siobhan Angus
March 2024 328pp 55 illus., including 32 in color
9781478030188 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025931 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the inextricable links between imagemaking and resource extraction, Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends.
Between Soil and Society
Legislative History and Political Development of Farm Bill Conservation Policy
Jonathan Coppess
May 2024 350pp index
9781496225146 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Traces the history and development of conservation policy, especially as it compares to, and interacts with, the development of farm policy and such factors as climate change.
Building Little Saigon
Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs
Erica Allen-Kim
Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
July 2024 248pp
9781477329719 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781477322994 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons.” Allen-Kim highlights architecture and planning ideas adapted by the Vietnamese, through travelling to ten Little Saigons in the US.
Caring for Life
A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene
Kelly Dombroski
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
March 2024 224pp 9 b&w illus.
9781517901608 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517979850 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Caring for Life examines the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices and amplifies the creative work of ordinary people guarding human and more-than-human life in their everyday practices of care. Caring for Life shows how experiments in personal care can lead to widespread change, providing hopeful of environmental action.
China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Thomas White
Series edited & Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
June 2024 248pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 table
9780295752433 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752426 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Alasha now styles itself as “China’s Camel Country,” where the domestic camel has status, exempted from many conservation policies. This study is a biography of the Bactrian camel and addresses critical questions of conservation.
Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
Casey A. Huegel
Series edited & Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
April 2024 272pp 15 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295752556 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752549 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent waste disposal. This book tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists.
Creating the Hudson River Park
Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed
Tom Fox
April 2024 304pp 15 color and 29 b&w images
9781978814011 £23.99/ $27.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Creating the Hudson River Park is a first-person story of how this park came to be. Working together over three decades, community groups, civic and environmental organizations, labor, the real estate and business community, government agencies, and elected officials won a historic victory for environmental preservation, the use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, and urban redevelopment.
Circular Ecologies
Environmentalism and Waste
Politics in Urban China
Amy Zhang
July 2024 224pp
9781503639294 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637962 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Zhang argues that in post-reform China, waste—the material vestige of decades of growth and increasing consumption—is a systemic irritant that troubles China's technocratic governance. Waste provoked an unlikely political coalition of urban communities that came to constitute a nascent, bottom-up environmental politics, and offers a model for conceptualizing ecological action under authoritarian conditions.
Climate of Denial
Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
Allen MacDuffie
August 2024 272pp
9781503639546 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503638938 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. Climateof Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used—then and now—to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet
Dark Agoras
Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place
J.T. Roane
February 2024 312pp 4 b&w illus.
9781479831029 £20.99/ $24.00 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods, shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power.
Devil's Mile
The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Foreword by Peter Quinn
July 2024 304pp 25 b&w illus.
9781531507268 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of the Bowery, New York’s oldest and most unique street.
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
David L. Nicandri
March 2024 328pp 16 b&w photos, 6 maps
9780774868877 £98.00/ $109.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Nicandri maps a cast of geographic visionaries and practical explorers as they promoted or sought a workable commercial route linking the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. The discovery of the legendary northern passage proved elusive, but the equivalent land bridges that were built in the form of two transcontinental railroads changed the futures of Canada and the United States.
Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crises
Edited by Ban Wang & Haomin GongMarch 2024 320pp 5 illus.
9781478027973 £13.99/ $16.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include people’s treatment of nature in natural disasters, ecocritical understanding of Chinese science fiction, ethnicity in Chinese ecocriticism, religion and the practice of environmental preservation, and the poetics of nature and crisis.
Equality and the City
Urban Innovations for All Citizens Enrique Peñalosa Londoño
The City in the Twenty-First Century
April 2024 312pp
9781512825701 £36.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities. Over the course of his two terms Londoño improved and created more than a thousand public parks. Equality and the City provides practical criteria for conceiving and constructing better cities, the obstacles that are confronted, and identifies ways to overcome them.
Escaping Nature
How to Survive Global Climate Change
Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, and Hannah L. Hayes
March 2024 320pp 99 illus., including 83 in color
9781478025443 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020660 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Escaping Nature offers concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change, and argues that while we wait for the world’s governments to get serious we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations.
Extinction and Religion
Edited by Jeremy H. Kidwell & Stefan SkrimshireReligion and the Human
January 2024 398pp 8 b&w illus.
9780253068477 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253068460 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Extinction and Religion is a collection of wide-ranging chapters that explore the implications for religious faith and experience as it relates to a "sixth mass extinction" in Earth's history. Further it seeks to answer the question as to how religious and spiritual practices are shaping responses to the crisis?
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
The New Nature
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder
Keleman Saxena, & Feifei
Zhou
May 2024 344pp
9781503637320 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Human action has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. This book takes stock of our current planetary crisis, leading readers through a series of genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history.
Geologic Life
Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race
Kathryn Yusoff
May 2024 560pp 55 illus.
9781478030300 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781478026075 £121.00/ $134.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examining the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, antiIndigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices.
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill
Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Davida Siwisa James
April 2024 432pp 128 b&w illus.
9781531506148 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he liked to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Through words and pictures, James explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem.
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Ian M. Miller
Foreword & Series edited by Paul S. Sutter
March 2024 296pp 9 b&w illus., 4 maps, 5 tables
9780295752877 £25.99/ $32.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Rectifies the omission of China’s forestry models and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.
Global Guyana
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Oneka LaBennett
April 2024 256pp 4 b&w images
9781479827015 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479826995 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing from archival research and oral history, this book exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana. LaBennett employs the powerful analytic of the pointer broom to disentangle the symbiotic relationship between Guyanese women’s gendered labor and global racial capitalism.
Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
Kathryn E. O'Rourke & Ben Koush
May 2024 280pp 264 color photos
9781477328927 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and evolution of architectural modernism in Texas. Illustrated with stunning photographs by architect Ben Koush, Home, Heat, Money, God analyzes buildings in big cities and small towns by world-famous architects, Texas titans, and lesser-known designers and describes the forces that influenced architects as they addressed basic needs.
How the Earth Feels
Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Dana Luciano
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
January 2024 256pp 5 illus.
9781478025702 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020967 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.
Land of Extraction Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism
Rebecca R. Scott
March 2024 240pp
9781479821266 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479821259 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extraction unravels the complex web of relationships between humans, places, and the environment, all bound by the concept of private property. It presents a thought-provoking analysis of how settler colonial culture imposes limits on environmental politics.
Nature-First Cities
Restoring
Relationships
with Ecosystems and with Each Other Cam Brewer, Herb Hammond, Sean Markey
Foreword by David Suzuki & Faisal Moola
May 2024 224pp 48 b&w photos, 9 illus., 9 maps
9780774868648 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Nature belongs in cities, but how do we put nature first without pushing people aside? This practical framework for urban planning reinforces our place in nature both physically and conceptually, by rebalancing our relationships with the planet and with one another.
Just City Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right
Jennifer Baum
April 2024 272pp 37 b&w illus.
9781531506216 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Celebrate the legacy of an era when a city was truly a home, when principles of social responsibility thrived. Just City isn’t just a memoir—it’s an invitation to revive the spirit of unity and create a city where everyone belongs. So open its pages and let its words rekindle the flame of a just and inclusive city once more.
Making an African City Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra
Jennifer Hart
April 2024 316pp 20 b&w illus.
9780253069337 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253069320 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.
Nature, Technology, and Society
The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis
Victor Ferkiss
November 1994 341pp
9780814726174 £29.00 / $30.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ferkiss asks the basic questions concerning humans and their relationship to the environment and technology by tracing cultural attitudes towards the environment from early mankind to the present day. This fascinating book is distinctive both in its comprehensiveness, and in its attempt to place side by side influential thinkers and movements with varied views on these issues.
No More Fossils
Dominic Boyer
Forerunners: Ideas First
October 2023 108pp
9781517916367 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilization through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oily automobility and plasticity), showing what tethers us to the ecocidal trajectory of petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place.
Oceaning
Governing Marine Life with Drones
Adam Fish Elements
February 2024 248pp 36 illus.
9781478030010 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478025801 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs.
Petroturfing
Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media
Jordan B. Kinder
June 2024 288pp 11 b&w illus.
9781517914332 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517914325 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Petroturfing presents an incisive look into how Canada’s pro-oil movement has leveraged social media to rebrand the extractive economy as a positive force. Jordan B. Kinder reveals the deep divide between Canada’s environmentally progressive reputation and the economic interests of its layers of government and private companies operating within its borders.
Nonhuman Witnessing
War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World
Michael Richardson
Thought in the Act
February 2024 256pp 28 illus.
9781478025641 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020905 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building a framework for justice, suggesting that nonhuman witnessing is central to combat contemporary global crises.
On the High Line
The Definitive Guide Annik LaFarge
Foreword by Rick Darke
May 2024 224pp 110 b&w illus.
9781531506117 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the park’s opening, this fully revised third editon remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the park.
Planting With Purpose
How Farmers Create a Resilient Food Landscape
Stephen Ellingson
March 2024 208pp
9781479820665 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781479820641 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book delves into the captivating world of local food markets in a “Rust Belt” region of the state, where 51 individuals share their inspiring stories through conversations and interviews. Author Stephen Ellingson explores the intricate web of moral commitments, self-understandings, and emotional experiences that drive and sustain smallscale farming for the local food market.
Rewilding the Urban Frontier
River Conservation in the Anthropocene
Edited by Greg Gordon
August 2024 342pp 21 photos, 2 illus., 8 maps, index
9781496230614 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Gordon argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene—that is, creating selfsustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.
Seeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
David Fedman
Foreword by Paul S. Sutter & Series edited by Paul S. Sutter
March 2024 320pp 14 b&w illus., 4 maps, 3 charts
9780295752860 £25.99/ $30.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Wide-ranging study that explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea. This book examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.”
Silicon Valley Imperialism
Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Erin McElroy
March 2024 296pp 16 illus.
9781478030218 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478025962 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley techno-capitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents and generating extreme income inequality, in order to expand its reach.
Sea Change
Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada
Edited by Ussif Rashid, Sumaila, Derek Armitage, Megan Bailey & William Cheung
Sustainability and the Environment
April 2024 364pp 7 b&w photos, 18 tables, 18 charts, 10 maps
9780774869041 £44.00/ $49.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Sea Change reports on the work of the OceanCanada Partnership, a research project to take stock of what we know about Canada’s three oceans, construct scenarios of the future facing coastal regions, and create a national dialogue and vision.
Settler Ecologies
The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya
Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio
April 2024 320pp 15 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps, 3 b&w figures
9781487553616 £23.99 / $32.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Settler Ecologies reveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations. From 1st April 2024
Solar Adobe Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture
Albert Narath
March 2024 296pp 56 b&w illus.
9781517914073 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781517914066 £118.00/ $132.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
From a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of raw earth materials for building construction emerged in the 1970s. Solar Adobe examines this new wave of architectural experimentation taking place in the United States, detailing how an ancient tradition became a point of convergence for issues of environmentalism, architecture, technology, and Indigenous resistance.
Solved
How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
David Miller, Bill McKibben, & Anne Hidalgo
April 2024 280pp 9 b&w illus., 18 b&w figures
9781487554569 £16.99 / $22.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
David Miller presents a compelling case that significant progress can be made at the local level by replicating the actions of leading cities around the world.
From 1st April 2024
The Beaches
Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood
Richard White
May 2024 160pp 39 b&w illustra�ons, 5 b&w maps
9781487526467 £16.99 / $22.50 PB
9781487508944 £42.00 /$55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on extensive research from a multiplicity of sources, this book offers a new, original history of the founding and evolution of an iconic Toronto neighbourhood: the Beaches.
From 1st April 2024
The Fragmentary City Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar
Andrew M. Gardner
May 2024 198pp 17 b&w halftones
9781501775017 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501774980 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences
Subterranean Matters
Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia
Andrea Marston
Elements
February 2024 312pp 22 illus.
9781478025634 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020899 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining coopera�ves, an economic forma�on that has been a central and contested feature of Bolivian poli�cs and economy.
The City Is Ours Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey
Muna Güvenç
August 2024 258pp 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps
9781501776373 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501774355 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer "wiggle room", turning oppression into chances for dissent and resilience and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical blocs and mobilizations.
