GEOGRAPHY Spring 2020
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Geography
Arkography
Cloud Ethics
A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted Gunnar Olsson
Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Louise Amoore
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth May 2020 252pp 8 photos, 25 illus., 11 charts, 9781496220295 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781496219473 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
May 2020 248pp 27 illus. 9781478008316 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007784 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.
Explores the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today, attempts to codify the taken-for-granted, a struggle with the invisible powers that make us obedient and predictable.
After the Blast
Financing the Global Land Rush Madeleine Fairbairn
The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens Eric Wagner
Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment July 2020 228pp 5 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 2 maps, 14 charts 9781501750083 £17.99/$21.95 PB 9781501750076 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 248pp 20 color illus., 2 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295746937 £23.99/$29.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
After the eription of Mt. St. Helens in 1980, ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain. When small plants and animals were Examines the history, ideas, and political struggles found a couple of weeks later, scientists realized surrounding the financialization of farmland. that the mountain was very much alive and not a Excludes ANZ dead zone.
Against Sustainability
Anticipating Future Environments
Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis Michelle Neely
Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin Shana Lee Hirsch
June 2020 224pp 9780823288205 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288229 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 208pp 1 map 9780295747293 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747491 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Responds to twenty-first century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation.
Tells the story of restoration science in the Columbia River Basin, surveying its past and detailing the work of today’s salmon habitat restoration efforts.
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Environment
Fields of Gold
Break Up the Anthropocene
Communist Pigs
An Animal History of East Germany’s Rise and Fall Thomas Fleischman Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Steve Mentz
Forerunners: Ideas First May 2019 86pp 9781517908621 £8.00/$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2020 288pp 19 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295747309 £33.00/$40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice. Excludes Japan & ANZ
East Germany’s journey from family to factory farms; argues that agriculture under communism came to reflect standard practices of capitalist agriculture, and that the pork industry provides a clear illustration of this convergence.
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
Fermented Landscapes
Lively Processes of Socioenvironmental Transformation Edited by Colleen C. Myles
Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Jonathan Padwe Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
April 2020 390pp 23 photos, 5 illus., 11 maps, 8 tables, 1 graph, 3 recipes, 9781496207760 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Applies the concept of fermentation as a mechanism through which to understand and analyze processes of landscape change. Examines the excitement, unrest, and agitation evident across shifting physical-environmental and sociocultural landscapes as related to fermented products.
Culture, Place, and Nature April 2020 272pp 21 b&w illus., 10 maps, 2 tables 9780295746906 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295746920 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Shows how the past lives on in the land; timely issues in anthropology and political ecology.
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China Ian M. Miller Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2020 272pp 9 b&w illus., 4 maps,
5 tables 9780295747330 £33.00/$40.00 HB 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.
Geography of British Columbia
People and Landscapes in Transition, 4th Edition Brett McGillivray
April 2020 320pp 47 illus., 38 tables, 30 maps, 12 b&w photos 9780774864329 £37.00/$55.00 PB UBC PRESS
This extensively revised edition teaches students how to think like geographers;takes them on a journey from the origins of the region’s diverse and unique landscapes to more recent history. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management
Lessons from Walden
Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy Bob Pepperman Taylor
Land Claims Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation Graham White
March 2020 240pp 9780268107338 £21.99/$29.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David Thoreau’s thought in Walden and Civil Dangers. Taylor lets all sides have their say, even as he persistently steers the discussion back to a nuanced reading of Thoreau's actual position.
February 2020 400pp 1 map, 5 tables 9780774863025 £60.00/$89.95 HB UBC PRESS
Assesses effectiveness of co-management boards in providing Indigenous peoples with genuine influence over land and wildlife decisions. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Radical Care
Radical Cartographies
Edited by Hi’ilei Hobart & Tamara Kneese
Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America Edited by Bjørn Sletto, Alfredo Wagner, Joe Bryan & Charles Hale
February 2020 170pp 7 illus. 9781478008781 £11.99/$15.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Care has re-entered the zeitgeist. In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, #selfcare exploded across media platforms. Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism. Contributors consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
August 2020 224pp 9781477320884 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Explores the ways in which participatory mapping is being used by indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other traditional groups in Latin America to preserve their territories and cultural identities. Rethinks the role of maps.
Red Gold
Regime of Obstruction
April 2020 304pp 16 b&w photos 9781517908515 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781517908508 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2020 576pp 40 b&w figures 9781771992893 £25.99/$43.95 PB ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca
How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy Edited by William K. Carroll Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels. Agravates the global climate emergency and destabilizes democratic structures. Provides essential context to the climate crisis and will transform discussions of energy democracy.
Illuminates the conditions for global governance that have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures. Shows the need to transform dominant culture that consents to this slaughter. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Rock | Water | Life
Seeds of Control
Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa Lesley Green
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea David Fedman Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
March 2020 328pp 26 photos 9781478003991 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478003694 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books June 2020 288pp 14 b&w illus., 3 maps, 4 charts 9780295747453 £33.00/$40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa’s history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
Explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Examines the aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.”
Shifting Livelihoods
The Buddha’s Footprint
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia Daniel Tubb Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
An Environmental History of Asia Johan Elverskog
Encounters with Asia February 2020 192pp 32 illus. 9780812251838 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Culture, Place, and Nature July 2020 264pp 16 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts 9780295747538 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747521 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
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.
An ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, and how resource extraction reshapes a place.
The Geological Unconscious
The Government of Beans
German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary Jason Groves
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Kregg Hetherington
July 2020 208pp 9780823288090 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288106 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 304pp 1 illus. 9781478006893 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006060 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the withdrawal of the lithosphere as a reliable setting, unobtrusive backdrop, and stable point of reference for literature written well before the current climate breakdown.
Shows how the tools used to drive economic growth in Paraguay’s adoption of massive soybean production and attempts to mitigate environmental degradation exacerbate the very challenges they were designed to solve.
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Wild Blue Media
Thinking through Seawater Melody Jue
Food, Power, and Resistance in the City Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato & Joshua Sbicca
Elements February 2020 240pp 29 illus., incl. 8 in color 9781478006978 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478006121 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 384pp 26 hts / 4 t / 4 figs / 6 m 9781479811373 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479834433 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Destabilizes terrestrial-based media theory frameworks and reorients the perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived.
How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape and what activists are doing to resist it. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Changing Neighbourhoods
Beijing from Below
Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center Harriet Evans
Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities Edited by Jill Grant, Alan Walks & Howard Ramos
May 2020 320pp 27 illus. 9781478008156 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006879 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on oral histories that reveal memories and experiences of several neighborhood families, reflects on the relationships between individual, family, neighborhood, and the state; poverty and precarity; gender politics and ethical living; resistance to and accommodation of partystate authority.
April 2020 352pp 26 maps, 20 charts, 21 tables 9780774862028 £74.00/$110.00 HB UBC PRESS
Offers revealing insights into how Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, and factors driving change. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Histories of Dirt
Modern Housing Catherine Bauer
Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos Stephanie Newell
February 2020 400pp 22 b&w photos, 170 b&w plates 9781517909062 £28.99/$35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Offers the original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement. Originally published in 1934, widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. Excludes Japan & ANZ
January 2020 272pp 14 illus. 9781478006435 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478005391 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness colonial governance, urban planning, public health policies, and relationships between colonists and native Lagosians.
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Urban
A Recipe for Gentrification
Neoliberal Cities
The Invention of Public Space
The Remaking of Postwar Urban America Edited by Andrew J. Diamond & Thomas J. Sugrue
Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich
June 2020 240pp 75 b&w photos, 10 color plates 9781517905767 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517905750 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
NYU Series in Social&Cultural Analysis
August 2020 240pp 9781479832378 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781479828821 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake New York City. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Traces the role that public policies play reshaping cities, particularly community control. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Urban Formalism
Urbanism without Guarantees
The Work of City Reading David Faflik
The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson
Polis April 2020 144pp 9780823287680 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288045 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds March 2020 312pp 10 b&w photos, 1 map 9781517907426 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781517907419 £96.00/$112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. Faflik posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.
Offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Everyday Equalities
Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks Andres Sevtsuk
Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner & Valerie Preston
The City in the Twenty-First Century May 2020 296pp 83 illus. 9780812252200 £34.00/$39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
August 2019 264pp 15 b&w photos 9780816694648 £21.99 / $27.00 PB 9780816694631 £93.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Presents the issues involved in implementing successful street commerce. Drawing on economic theory, urban design principles, regulatory policies, and merchant organization models, conceptualizes key problems and offers innovative solutions. Presents a comprehensive analysis for successful street commerce.
Seeks evidence of progressive alternatives to racialized inequality that are emerging from everyday encounters in settler colonial cities. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Street Commerce
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