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Mare Nostrum Group
A Resonant Ecology
Max Ritts
Sign, Storage, Transmission
October 2024 216pp 7 illus.
9781478030911
£21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026648 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. Through a situated geographical approach, he makes the case that only a decolonial and multigenerational environmental politics can counter the false promise of “sustainable marine development” held up by industry and the state.
9781501777387
Border of Water and Ice
The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
Joseph A. Seeley Foreword by Albert L. Park
The Environments of East Asia
October 2024 216pp 16 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 4 graphs
£20.99/ $23.95 PB 9781501777370
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border.
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
David L. Nicandri
November 2024 322pp 16 b&w photos, 6 maps
9780774868884 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
The many attempts by navigators to find a navigable Northwest Passage all ended in failure, but the equivalent land bridges that were built in the form of two transcontinental railroads changed the future and landscape of North America forever.
Beach Politics
Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline
Edited by Setha Low
January 2025 336pp 26 b&w figures
9781479821952
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479821945
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations. Focused on beaches, access to public space, and social justice, this book brings together powerful contributions illustrating how these issues are inextricably bound with socioeconomic status, racial segregation, and climate justice.
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
Winemaking in Shangri-La
Brendan A. Galipeau Series edited and foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
This book considers how the French notion of terroir works to create ethno-regional identities and village landscapes through the production of Tibetan wine. It provides timely insight into China's entry into the wine market, highlighting the localized impacts of this industry, which include transformation from subsistence agriculture to agrochemical use.
Dodge County, Incorporated
Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America
Sonja Trom Eayrs
November 2024 326pp 17 photos, 1 table, 4 charts, index 9781496234995 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In 2014 Sonja Trom Eayrs’s parents filed the first of three lawsuits against Dodge County officials and their neighbors to challenge installation of a corporate factory near their intergenerational family farm in Dodge County, Minnesota. In a compelling firsthand account, Dodge County, Incorporated tells a story of corporate malfeasance.
Dreams of Presence
A Geographical Theory of Culture
Mitch Rose
December 2024 240pp 3 b&w illus.
9781487566173 £49.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Provides a novel theoretical approach to the question of culture and will be of use to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and social theorists grappling to understand why culture continues to be a dominant political force in our contemporary world. The book argues that culture is a claim; not something subjects ever have but something they desire.
Evacuation
The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency
Peter Adey
September 2024 328pp 53 illus.
9781478030584 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026396 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Adey demonstrates that evacuation is not an equal process. Some people may choose not to move while others are forced, some may even be brought into harm through evacuation. Often the poorest, racialized, and most marginalized communities hold the least power in such moments.
On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
Edward Armston-Sheret
December 2024 330pp 20 illus., index
9781496230973 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their reliance on others for survival. Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration in this era by focusing on the contributions of the people and animals, ordinarily written out of the mainstream histories, who made these journeys possible.
Energy's History
Toward a Global Canon
Edited by Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull
February 2025 232pp
9781503641501 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503640863 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This volume both presents visions of energy-driven development beyond the Western capitalist model and provides an expansive account of how energy histories have made an impact.
Judicial Territory
Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire
Shaina Potts
September 2024 304pp
9781478030720 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026488 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals how the American empire has benefitted from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Potts argues that law is an essential tool for US geopolitical and economic interests.
Reclaiming the Don
An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley, Second Edition
Jennifer
L. Bonnell
September 2024 332pp 4 colour and 34 b&w illus.
9781487560409 £31.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto’s growth. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
Remapping an Ableist World
Disability and Oppression under Capitalism
Vera Chouinard
October 2024 200pp
9781487524876 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487507183 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and the organ trade to illustrate connections between able capitalist ways of life, impairment, disability, and oppression. Reminds us that for our own well-being and that of generations to comes we must forge a less destructive and more nurturing way of life.
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
December 2024 258pp 16 b&w images
9781978830066 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978830073 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events.
Animating Central Park
A Multispecies History
Dawn Day Biehler
Series editor and foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
October 2024 pp 40 b&w illus.
9780295753195 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Illuminating the multispecies story of Central Park from the 1850s to the 1970s, Biehler examines the intimately connected lives of humans and animals in the park. She reveals stories of teeming fish, nesting swans, and escaped bison as well as New Yorkers’ attempts to reconfigure their relationships to the land.
The Other Public Lands
Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States' Natural Resource Lands
Steven Davis February 2025 256pp
9781439925539 £99.00/ $110.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Davis focuses on how states prioritize competing claims related to conservation, resource development, tourism, recreation, and finances. As there has been a demand to transfer some federal lands to the states, Davis concludes with an appraisal of whether states could handle this transfer and goes on to suggest ways to ensure adequate access in an era of increased demand.
environment
After
Ice Cold Humanities for a Warming Planet
Foreword by Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin
Edited by Rafico Ruiz, Paula Schönach and Rob Shields
October 2024 280pp 20 b&w photos, 3 maps
9780774869362 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
After Ice asks us to consider how we define the experience of cold – its temporal, spatial, and material qualities – as cycles of freezing and thawing change across our warming planet.
Before the Roads, Before the Mines
Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society
Robert Jarvenpa
October 2024 260pp 10 photos, 3 maps, 1 genealogy, index 9781496239747 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A narrative-based ethnohistory of a Denesułiné community, also known as the Chipewyan, Kesyehot’ine, or Poplar House People. Jarvenpa highlights the historical experiences of middle-aged and older individuals who vividly recall a time before the roads and mines—when young and old alike spoke the Denesułiné language and when entire families lived in a seasonally nomadic fashion in the bush.
Contested Environmentalisms
Trees and the Making of Modern China
Cheng Li
January 2025 272pp
9781503640306 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on digital media sources, Cheng Li investigates the evolution of Chinese conservationist ideas. Examining ethnic borderlands and China's growth on the world stage, this book demonstrates the strength of Chinese environmentalism to adapt and survive through tumultuous changes.
Cradle of Conservation
An Environmental History of Pennsylvania
Allen Dieterich-Ward
Pennsylvania History
September 2024 140pp
9781932304381 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides the first comprehensive study of Pennsylvania’s environmental history. The story starts with forester Ralph Brock at the dawn of the conservation era and continues through the eras of energy production using coal, oil, natural gas, and other resources. Allen Dieterich-Ward also investigates how the non-human world shapes the history of the commonwealth and examines the impact of pollution.
Deep Disposal
A
Documentary Account of Burying Nuclear Waste in Canada
William Leiss
September 2024 204pp 7 tables, 3 maps, 1 diagram
9780228022824 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
High-level nuclear waste is the most hazardous byproduct of an energy source that is incredibly useful and increasingly in demand. Finding the ideal place to store it permanently is an urgent policy crisis facing our country. Deep Disposal reveals the nature of this crisis and how we might overcome it.
Core Samples
A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood
Anna Farro Henderson
October 2024 208pp
9781517916046 £15.99/ $18.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Grounded in her experiences as a climate scientist, an environmental policy advisor to Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Governor Mark Dayton, and a constant juggler of the many roles and responsibilities of professional moms, Henderson’s eclectic, unconventional essays range from observations, confessions, and meditations on lab and fieldwork to a packing list for a trip to the State Capitol and a lactation diary.
Creature Needs
Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation
Edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman and Susan Tacent
January 2025 184pp 6 b&w illus. 9781517918316 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A collaboration with the nonprofit organization Creature Conserve, Creature Needs is a path-setting fusion of literary art and scientific research that deepens our understanding of the interdependence between life and habitat, illuminating the stark choices we face to conserve resources and ensure that the basic needs of all species are met.
Deepwater Alchemy
Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor
Lisa Yin Han
August 2024 264pp 23 b&w illus. 9781517915940 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517915933 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Deepwater Alchemy shows us that deepwater mediation is entangled in existential hopes and fears for our planetary future. As the ocean bottom becomes increasingly accessible to people, Han prompts us to ask not whether we can tame the seafloor, but, rather, why and for whom are we taming it?
Drawing Coastlines
Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore
V. Chitra
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
December 2024 294pp 107 b&w halftones
9781501777967 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing Coastlines reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are fast remaking Mumbai's coasts and coastal futures. They set in place infrastructural interventions, vocabularies of development and conservation, and their lines and dots inscribe material conditions of existence and horizons of loss that entangle life forms.
Energy Emergency Repair Kit
The E.E.R.K. Collective
September 2024 114pp 112 color illus.
9781531508425 £14.99/ $16.95 PB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A fictional manual to help disrupt today’s all-too-real energy and climate emergencies. The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaborativelyauthored research-creation intervention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair.
Baugh tells the story of American environmentalism through a focus on Spanish-speaking Catholics, shedding light on environmental actors who have been hidden in plain sight. Baugh challenges readers to rethink their assumptions about who can be an environmental leader and what counts as environmentalism.
Earth Diplomacy
Indigenous American Art, Ecological Crisis, and the Cold War
Jessica L. Horton
August 2024 400pp 97 illus., including 16 page color insert
9781478030492 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026266 £103.00/ $114.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals how Native American art in the midtwentieth-century mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth itself at the center of international relations. By interweaving diplomacy, ecology, and art history, Horton advances Indigenous frameworks of reciprocity with all beings in the cosmos as a path to transforming our broken system of global politics.
Erosion
American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance
Gina Caison
November 2024 296pp 12 illus. 9781478031161 £23.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478026914 £94.00/ $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Caison demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate out into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.
In a time of intensifying ecological crisis, we need, more than ever, to protect and appreciate nonhuman lives. Feathered Entanglements offers a rich tapestry of human–bird relations across the Indo-Pacific and shows what birds can teach us about how to live with other species in the Anthropocene.
Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change
William M. Throop
October 2024 224pp 4 b&w line
drawings
9781501777189 £19.99/ $22.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change explores skills we need to successfully navigate the distinctive environmental, social, and economic challenges of the twenty-first century. Our inability to address increasing resource constraints, social conflict, and ecological decline lead many toward a deep pessimism that saps motivation for change.
Forest Lost
Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon
Maron E. Greenleaf
November 2024 304pp 21 illus.
9781478031086 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026853 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism—the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable and how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth.
Mountain Battery
The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age
Marc Landry
January 2025 296pp
9781503641570 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503639775 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through historical research conducted in archives across Europe—especially in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Italy—Landry shows how and why Europeans thoroughly transformed the Alps in order to generate hydroelectricity, and explores the effects of its attendant economic and military advantages across the turbulent twentieth century.
For the Sake of Forests and Gods
Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands
Wolfram H. Dressler
February 2025 252pp 25 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart
Documents the consequences of nonstate actors impinging upon the existence of Indigenous peoples in the remote highlands of Palawan Island, The Philippines. Nimble, focused, and well-funded, religious and environmental organizations increasingly assume governmental authority over the lives and livelihoods of the Pala'wan people within their ancestral territories.
Futures of the Sun
The
Struggle
over Renewable Life
Imre Szeman
Forerunners: Ideas First
November 2024 108pp
9781517917692 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Imre Szeman explains how and why key players are working hard to make sure a greener, cleaner future will look much like the world we live in today. He examines the rhetoric, ideology, and politics of liberal nationalists intent on fighting a war against climate change, billionaire solar entrepreneurs who believe only in themselves, and the populist far right who want no change at all.
Nature Unfurled examines the links between Asian American and environmental history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. With provocative essays on topics such as health in urban Chinatowns, Japanese oysters on Washington tidelands, and Southeast Asian community gardens this collection undercovers Asian American environmental history.
No Matter What Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility
Catherine Keller
December 2024 208pp
9781531508739 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531508722 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
As we face relentless ecological destruction spiraling around a planet of unconstrained capitalism and democratic failure, what matters most? How do we get our bearings and direct our priorities in such a terrestrial scenario? Species, race, sex, politics, and economics will increasingly come tangled in the catastrophic trajectory of climate change.
Plantation Worlds
Maan Barua
August 2024 320pp 35 illus.
9781478025610 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020868 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on research spanning fifteen years, Maan Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amid tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In so doing, Barua prompts a rethinking of multispecies ecologies and how they are structured by colonialism and race.
Public Land and Democracy in America
Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument
Julie Brugger
Anthropology of Contemporary North America
January 2025 400pp
9781496241054 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781496233011 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.
Not Just Green, Not Just White
Race, Justice, and Environmental
History
Edited by Mary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles
February 2025 496pp
9781496241733 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781496204202 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the intersections between race and environment to demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and critical engagement with the nonhuman world, provides a fertile context for understanding racism and ongoing colonialism as power structures in the United States.
Precarious Eating
Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global South
Ben Jamieson Stanley
December 2024 272pp 10 b&w illus. 9781517915803 £23.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517915797 £100.00/ $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
By highlighting authors, activists, and environments of the global South, Precarious Eating joins with scholarship from postcolonial, decolonial, Indigenous, and Black studies to underscore how capitalism and empire shape our planetary environmental crisis.
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
Lida Maxwell
January 2025 168pp
9781503640535 £21.99/ $25.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this moving new book, political theorist Lida Maxwell offers close readings that suggest Rachel Carson's relationship with Dorothy Freeman was central to her writing of Silent Spring—a work whose defense of vibrant nonhuman nature allowed love to flourish.
Stormy Weather
Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage
William E. Connolly
September 2024 272pp
9781531509217 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531509200 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Composed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, Stormy Weather explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and earth scientists until late in the day.
The Green New Deal from Below
How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy
Jeremy Brecher
November 2024 208pp 13 b&w photos, 2 charts
9780252088278 £18.99/ $21.95 PB
9780252046186 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States.
The Rough Poets
Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
Melanie Dennis Unrau
McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
October 2024 240pp 16 photos
9780228022947 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780228022930 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
How does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect, care, and imagination necessary to be an environmentalist reader in solidarity with oil workers.
The Earth That Modernism Built Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design
Kenny Cupers
Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
December 2024 360pp
9781477330210 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781477329818 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Drawing from both canonical and unknown sources, Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis.
The Lives of Lake Ontario
An Environmental History
Daniel Macfarlane
McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
September 2024 288pp 41 photos
9780228022237 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. Lake Ontario has so profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America that it is arguably the most important, yet most unappreciated, of the Great Lakes.
UNIVERSITY
Transforming the Prairies
Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada
Shannon Stunden Bower
Nature | History | Society
September 2024 272pp 16 b&w photos, 11 maps, 2 charts
9780774870399 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Proposes a new understanding of Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism. This investigation affirms the importance of engaging historical perspectives to help ensure that contemporary environmental management efforts support more just and sustainable futures.
Translating Worlds, Defending Land
Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia
Casey High
February 2025 224pp
9781503641464 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503640481 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High explores how Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands, and what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities.
Working Watersheds
Water and Energy in the Lackawanna Valley
William Conlogue
November 2024 206pp
9781439926178
£23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781439926161 £85.00/ $94.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offering a fresh way to think about the Anthropocene, this distinctive history of water and coal in the Lackawanna Valley discusses how both water abundance and scarcity might play out as global temperatures rise. Designed to trigger debates about the nature of history, the significance of literature, and the importance of linking person, place, and planet in an era of climate change.
Chronicles of a Global City
Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru
Edited by Vinay Gidwani, Michael Goldman and Carol Upadhya
Foreword by Janaki Nair
Afterword Malini Ranganathan
November 2024 280pp 27 b&w illus., 17 color images, 2 maps
9781517917364
£22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517917357
£97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, Chronicles of a Global City vividly illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance capital, real estate markets, livelihood struggles, and fraying ecologies in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru.
9780295753447
Viable Ecologies
Conservation and Coexistence on the Galápagos Islands
Paolo Bocci
Foreword and series editor
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Culture, Place, and Nature
December 2024 176pp 10 b&w illus., 2 maps
£27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295753430 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Bocci brings attention to the farmers and other marginalized locals who enact their own ways of caring for, and living on, the Galápagos Islands and, in doing so, connect environmental policy and science to matters of immigration and belonging.
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Building Ghosts
Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
Molly Lester Photopgrapher Michael Bixler
November 2024 202pp
9781439924099 £36.00/ $40.00 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Features more than 100 striking contemporary color photographs and a deeply researched narrative about Philadelphia’s buildings, neighborhoods, and the ghosts that reveal new truths and provocations about the changing city. The text and images in this lavish volume illuminate these lost buildings and found ghosts.
Cities and the Constitution
Giving Local Governments in Canada the Power They Need
Edited by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert and Nathalie Des Rosiers
Foreword by Alan Broadbent
McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
October 2024 264pp
9780228022077 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Canada’s largest cities have faced exponential growth, with the trajectory rising further still. This first volume of a complementary pair, by renowned Canadian legal and urban studies scholars, suggests contemporary solutions to one of our most pressing policy dilemmas.
City of Wood
San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
James Michael Buckley
November 2024 360pp 63 b&w photos, 19 maps, 6 tables
9781477330241 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital of San Francisco.
Heaven on the Hudson
Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park
Stephanie Azzarone
Photographer Robert F. Rodriguez
December 2024 240pp 107 b&w illus.
9781531508050 £19.99/ $22.95
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
While much has been written about Central Park, little has focused exclusively on Riverside Drive and Riverside Park until now. Heaven on the Hudson is dedicated to sharing this West Side neighborhood’s most special secrets, the ones that, without fail, bring both pleasure and peace in a city of more than 8 million.
Local Governance in Transition
Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities
Mary Louise McAllister
August 2024 300pp 21 b&w photos, 2 charts, 2 maps
9780774870320 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Presents a framework for conversations around technological, ecological, and economic challenges –and encourages innovative thinking for those interested in exploring sustainable solutions. This text is for students, leaders, civil servants, and anyone working toward sustainable cities.
Ethnocracy
Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine
Oren Yiftachel
August 2024 368pp 35 maps
9781512826852 £29.99/ $34.95
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. In this book, he presents a new critical theory and comparative framework to account for the political geography of ethnocratic societies.
Home Truths
Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis
Carolyn Whitzman
October 2024 334pp 13 b&w photos, 30 illus., 10 tables
9780774890700 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Housing expert Carolyn Whitzman explores Canada’s unaffodable housing crisis from all sides, including defining what adequate housing looks like, explaining why non-market housing is crucial for Canada, and outlining how and why to tackle ever-growing wealth disparities between renters and those who own.
Metagraffiti
Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America
Chandra Morrison Ariyo
December 2024 186pp 25 color and 10 b&w images
9781978834408 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978834415 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Metagraffiti explores how graffiti art transmits ideas about graffiti culture. These insights, in turn, inspire a deeper understanding of the social construction of cities. Focusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo and Santiago de Chile, this innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and metareference that appear in Latin American graffiti art.
Miami in the Anthropocene
Rising Seas and Urban Resilience
Stephanie Wakefield
January 2025 256pp 20 b&w illus.
9781517917180 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781517917173 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Grounded in the dynamic landscape of Miami but reaching far beyond its shores, Miami in the Anthropocene delves into the broader debates shaping urban thought and practice in the Anthropocene. Focusing on postresilience urban designs, Wakefield illuminates the path toward a future where cities embrace opportunities for evolution rather than merely for survival.
Movement
New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
Nicole Gelinas
November 2024 576pp 39 b&w illus. 9781531508210 £40.00/ $44.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses lost his long battle to urbanist Jane Jacobs over his planned Lower Manhattan Expressway. The ten-lane elevated expressway would slice across SoHo and Little Italy, demolish historic buildings, and displace thousands of families and businesses.
Projections of Dakar
(Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema
Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz
Research in International Studies, Africa Series
October 2024 288pp 27 color and b&w images
9780896803497 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780896803480 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The authors draw from interviews and ethnographic observations to center filmmakers’ practices and conceptualizations of contemporary cinema in Dakar. In each chapter of this book, they focus on a particular urban issue and analyze how Senegalese filmmakers reimagine Africa as a place that will lead to a better future for its inhabitants.
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
November 2024 258pp 5 b&w halftones, 5 b&w line drawings, 5 maps, 6 charts 9781501778964 £28.99/ $33.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, the book Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.
Philadelphia A Narrative History
Paul Kahan
October 2024 424pp 10 b&w images
9781512826296 £36.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Philadelphia: A Narrative History, Kahan presents a comprehensive portrait of the city, from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century. Understanding Philadelphia’s past, Kahan says, is key to envisioning future possibilities for the City of Brotherly Love.
Second-Order Preservation
Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy
A critical reassessment of historic preservation policies in the United States, Second-Order Preservation brings needed attention to the hierarchical underpinnings and effects of established preservation frameworks. Questioning the criteria by which value is ascribed to historic buildings and neighborhoods, Erica Avrami works to elucidate and transform how—and which— claims to place become codified in and reinforced through public policy.
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
Duncan
Gager
States, People, and the History of Social Change
November 2024 328pp
9780228022763 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9780228022756 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
A history of London’s suburban railway network from the 1830s to 1921 and its impact on urban mobility, Slow Train to Arcadia is a timely exploration of the origins of mass commuting, a similarly transformative period for the daily patterns of working life.
The City in the Distance
Jean-Luc Nancy Translated by Cory Stockwell Foreword by Jean-Christophe Bailly
October 2024 160pp
9781531508975 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781531508968 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Composed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, Stormy Weather explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and earth scientists until late in the day.
The Rule of Dons
Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica
Rivke Jaffe shows how dons’ power relies on a widespread belief in their right to rule, explaining how criminal power is legitimized through a set of aesthetic, affective, and spatial mechanisms. Jaffe’s analysis offers insights into the entanglement of violent autocratic rule and democratic institutions far beyond Jamaica.
Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy and Craig Borowiak
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds January 2025 296pp 2 b&w illus., 29 color images, 5 tables
9781517916022 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517916015 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Bringing together insights from geography, political economy, and political science with mapping and spatial analysis methodologies, surveys, and indepth interviews, Solidarity Cities illuminates the extensive footprints of solidarity economies and the roles they play in communities.
The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities
Where the Law Went
Wrong
and How We Can Fix It
Edited by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert and Nathalie Des Rosiers Foreword by Don Iveson
Explores the historical functions of municipalities, their current ability to tackle major problems, and what the future holds for shifting legal and political powers, to make the case that constitutional concepts must be repurposed to support the transition from nation-building to city-building in a global context.
The Thin Edge of Innovation
Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy
Roger Hayter, Jerry Patchell and Kevin G. Rees
September 2024 292pp 29 tables, 6 charts, 5 maps
9780774869928 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
This constructive study examines the distinctive opportunities facing Metro Vancouver. Despite challenges, it reveals a region with undoubted potential for sustained, broadly beneficial local development.
Timing the Future Metropolis
Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism
Peter Ekman
November 2024 360pp 28 b&w halftones
9781501778391 £35.00/ $38.95 PB
9781501778384 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Timing the Future Metropolis—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science— explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city.
West Coast Mission
The Changing Nature of Christianity in Vancouver
Ross A. Lockhart
October 2024 216pp 1 table
9780228022862 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9780228022855 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on a five-year study of fourteen sites, including church plants, congregations, and parachurch agencies, Ross Lockhart explores the evolving spectrum of religious identity in Vancouver and the significant cultural shifts taking place in how Christian mission and witness are approached in a secular city.
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, anti-Indigenous, and antiBrown environmental and racial injustices.
Urban Mobility
How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything
The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to meaningfully respond to the climate crisis. Concludes that the path forward requires good public policy from all levels of government, working in partnership with the private sector and nonprofits.
Wonder City
How to Reclaim Human-Scale Urban Life
Lynn Ellsworth
December 2024 384pp 72 b/w illus. 9781531508180 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes sweeping through cities like New York. Ellsworth provides a pragmatic blueprint for revitalizing urban spaces. She champions the need for affordable housing, sustainable urban planning, and architecture that respects and enhances the human experience.
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
The New Nature
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman
Saxena and 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 sites, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history.
