Human geography Books
Bristol University Press Towards a Spatial Social Policy
Book SynopsisBringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of social policy scholarship, practice and experience.Trade Review“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke
£25.64
Bristol University Press Children and Young Peoples Participation in
Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on participatory international research, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles in responding, planning and adapting to disasters. It demonstrates how child-centred ways of working will benefit all those involved.Table of ContentsIIntroducing CUIDAR: A Child Centred Approach to Disasters ~ Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Ana Delicado Chapter 1., Children, Participation and Disasters in Europe: A Poor Record ~ Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Miriam Arenas, Daniel López Gómez Chapter 2., Dialogues with Children, Mutual Learning Exercises and National Policy Debates ~ Anna Grisi, Flaminia Cordani, Sofia Ribeiro, Charikleia Kanari, Vassilis Argyropoulos, Miriam Arenas and Ana Delicado Chapter 3., Rights, Information, Needs and Active Involvement in Disaster Management ~ Ana Delicado, Miriam Arenas, Magda Nikolaraizi, Charikleia Kanari, Anna Grisi, Flaminia Cordani, Stefanie Keir Chapter 4., Building a Framework for Child-Centred Disaster Risk Management in Europe ~ Israel Rodriguez, Maggie Mort, Ana Nunes de Almeida, Ana Sofia Ribeiro Chapter 5., Participatory Tools for Disaster Risk Management with Children and Young People ~ Jussara Rowland, Miriam Arenas, Flamina Cordani, Anna Grisi, Magda Nikolaraizi, Maria Papazafiri, Alison Lloyd Williams, Aya Goto and Amanda Bingley Concluding Remarks: Reimagining Children’s Place in Disaster Risk Management ~ Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Maggie Mort, Ana Delicado
£48.59
Bristol University Press Local Civil Society
Book SynopsisDrawing on place-based field investigations and new empirical analysis, this original book investigates civil society at local level.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Civil society as a field of local action 2. Community and local civil society: time, continuity and change 3. Uncovering local civil society in two Welsh villages 4. Civil society through the narratives of place and time 5. Civil society and local associational life 6. The entwining of civil society, economy and state at local levels Conclusion
£76.00
Bristol University Press Beyond Neighbourhood Planning
Book SynopsisThe past three decades have seen an international ‘turn to participation’ – letting those who will be affected by neighbourhood planning outcomes play an active role in decision-making. This innovative analysis brings theory, research, and practice together and gives insights into how and why citizen voices either become effective or get excluded.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Neighbourhood Planners and the Turn to Participation 2. Planning, Participation, and Democratisation 3. Knowledge, Politics and Care: Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies 4. Neighbourhoods, Identity and Legitimacy 5. Experience, Evidence and Examination 6. Expertise, Agency and Power 7. Care and Concern 8. Conclusions: Neighbourhood Planning and Beyond
£77.39
The University of North Carolina Press Environments of Empire
Book SynopsisAdvances an historical analysis that is comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary to understand the causes, consequences, and networks of biological exchange and ecological change resulting from imperialism.Trade ReviewReaders are left with a range of new perspectives and methodologies that examine the varied aspects of ecological imperialism. Agricultural historians will find the collection especially helpful given that many of the essays focus on the development of colonial and modern agricultural practices.--Agricultural History
£26.36
The University of North Carolina Press Prison Capital
Book SynopsisEvery year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the US and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Prison Capital Mass Incarceration and Struggles
Book SynopsisEvery year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the US and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020.
£22.46
University of Texas Press The Individuality of Portugal
Book SynopsisThe factors that caused Portugal to become a separate nation when other regions of the Iberian peninsula became part of Spain.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Landforms of Northwest and West Iberia 2. The Climate of Western Iberia 3. The Soils of Northern and Western Iberia 4. Vegetation Regions of Northern and Western Iberia 5. Prehistoric Immigrants into Iberia 6. Early Central European Influences in Iberia 7. Contacts between the Ancient Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Iberia 8. The Period of Roman Conquest and Control 9. The Germanic Conquest 10. Moslem Domination 11. The Reconquest of Iberia 12. Final Steps toward Portuguese Independence 13. Completion of the Portuguese State 14. Development of Portuguese International Relations 15. The Geography of Portuguese-Spanish Boundaries 16. Environment and Culture 17. The Geographical Basis of Portuguese Political Independence: A Summation Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Shifting Sands
Book SynopsisHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, Shifting Sands addresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization. Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands Part I. Exchanges and Flows The International Development of China Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) Part II. Corridors and Concessions China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands Part III. Settlements and Memories Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements Southwestern Borderlands Northwestern Borderlands Northeastern Borderlands Epilogue Index
£35.10
Duke University Press The Promise of Infrastructure
Book SynopsisAttending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating new ways to theorize time, politics, and promise.Trade Review"The Promise of Infrastructure offers a provocative reflection on the current academic, social, and political moment that we find ourselves in. . . . While The Promise of Infrastructure as a whole offers a surprisingly comprehensive condemnation of the 'radically human-centered thinking' that has produced the Anthropocene challenge that we now face, it also suggests the tools we will need to map out possible futures. Appropriately, these are not prescriptions promising a better future. Rather they are openings for possibility, for action, and for wonder." -- Tim Oakes * Technology and Culture *"The volume offers a highly valuable contribution to the study of human/non-human relations. Taking up Brian Larkin’s call against a premature separation of the material from the discursive, the editors argue that infrastructural matter becomes political only in relation to human ideologies, aesthetics or histories." -- Laura Kemmer * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"The Promise of Infrastructure is a timely and compelling account of the myriad ways in which infrastructures can be theorized and the limits and potentials of the same." -- Siddharth Menon * AAG Review of Books *"The Promise of Infrastructure is a stellar collection of essays by anthropologists and social scientists who explore roads, buildings, bridges, water meters, pipelines, power stations, and other structures which we encounter on a daily basis but whose contribution to the production of difference we frequently overlook." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *"This book presents a combination of insightful theorisations and an engaging ethnography." -- Sudha Vasan * Economic & Political Weekly *"The Promise of Infrastructure is essential reading for scholars and students who wish to more fully understand the ethical and social role of the 'Ideal Infrastructure,' its history, its criticisms and its (uncertain) future destiny." -- Marco Spada * Environment and History *“The edited collection by Anand, Gupta, and Appel highlights infrastructures as a promising site for ethnographic research.... [It] reveal[s] the potential of infrastructural ethnography to make visible power inequalities and exclusionary practices and expose infrastructures as powerful sites for redefining governance and belonging.” -- Daivi Rodima-Taylor * American Anthropologist *“The Promise of Infrastructure teaches the reader how large state-run infrastructures can possibly induce and solidify regimes in pursuing their political promises. . . . Insights stemming out of The Promise of Infrastructure—especially the concept of ‘ruination’—enable researchers to acquire a ‘fuller’ account of the lifecycle of an infrastructure.” -- Alex Christian * Journal of Cultural Economy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta 1 Part I. Time 1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel 41 2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 62 3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey 80 4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel 102 Part II. Politics 5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler 133 6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand 155 Part III. 7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin 175 8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker 203 9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer 223 Contributors 245 Index 249
£72.25
Duke University Press The Politics of Operations
Book SynopsisSandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.Trade Review"The Politics of Operations is a challenging, highly ambitious work. . . . Ultimately, the reorientation that Mezzadra and Neilson are proposing is a subtle one, indebted to a rich archive of political ideas. But they rework and recombine those ideas into a book that is shrewdly reasoned, superbly written, and thick with insight into the contemporary moment." -- Martin Danyluk * Society and Space *"Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson outline a novel perspective on the startling disjunctive synthesis of homogenization and heterogenization processes that characterize the global expansion of capitalist economy. Their second collaborative, book-length study offers a compelling account of the economic, political, and social relations to which these movements respond." -- Nicolas Schneider * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition 17 2. Operations of Capital 55 3. Capital, State, Empire 94 4. Extraction, Logistics, Finance 133 5. Vistas of Struggle 168 6. The State of Capitalist Globalization 209 References 253 Index 287
£75.65
Duke University Press Cartographic Memory
Book SynopsisJuan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space.Trade Review“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood. . . . In these two ways—its analysis of the movement’s dynamic production of space, and in its focus on Oakland—Cartographic Memory is a signal achievement.” -- Laura Barraclough * Society and Space *"This book will helpfully inform the next generation of geographers, activists, and students on the crucial impact space has on social movements, and the ways social movements shape space and place." -- Aída R. Guhlincozzi * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Putting Fruitvale on the “Map” 1 1. Making Place 31 2. The Other Minority 61 3. Revolution Interrupted 89 4. Development for the People! 114 5. Mapping Interlinkages 144 Conclusion. Activism in Space-Time 171 Notes 197 References 219 Index 231
£70.55
Duke University Press Futureproof
Book SynopsisSecurity is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life. Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martinez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin ZeidermanTrade Review“This provocative book reframes the issue of security, considering it at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It opens new possibilities of critique and of understanding, using ethnographies to expose several dimensions of our everydayness that normalize fear, risk, violence, and the invisibilization of growing inequalities. It will become mandatory reading for all interested in criticizing contemporary formations of power and the ways in which violence and security are lived and felt in the everyday.” -- Teresa P. R. Caldeira, author of * City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo *“This volume offers a critical analysis of ‘security’ as a mode of power and form of governance by examining its aesthetic dimensions. The authors explore the institutions and discourses that sell protection from almost every aspect of everyday life. By focusing on the political and social aesthetics of how security claims and threats control human lives, they argue that it is these aesthetic manipulations that provide an affective infrastructure and set of practices that manage human life. An important addition to the anthropology of security, Futureproof provides a provocative glimpse into the future.” -- Setha Low, coeditor of * Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control *"The development of the concept of security as an aesthetic and sensory experience is an interesting line of research, and the broad sample of cases evaluated in Futureproof was well chosen. This is a reference text I would recommend for security practitioners as well as advanced students and scholars of security and strategic theories. Far from the typical security text, there are philosophical elements and advanced concepts that lend more to a scholar’s eye, but this text will prove educational for anyone with an interest in the staging and portrayal of security." -- Courteney J. O’Connor * LSE Review of Books *"This is a worthy and relevant contribution to security studies, a field which will likely become even more prominent in the post–COVID-19 world." -- R. P. Lorenzo * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Catherine Lutz vii Introduction. Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical / D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann, and Daniel M. Goldstein 1 1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three American Museum Exhibits / Victoria Bernal 33 2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Bogotá / Austin Zeiderman 63 3. "We All Have the Same Red Blood": Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border / Ieva Jusionyte 87 4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras / Jon Horne Carter 114 5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe 134 6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn's Real Estate / Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores and Alexandra Demshock 156 7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools / Rachel Hall 175 8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk / Limor Samimian-Darash 200 9. Securing "Standby" and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in Search of Forms / AbdouMaliq Simone 225 10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against "Informality" in Mexico City / Alejandra Leal Martínez 245 Afterword. The Age of Security / Didier Fassin 271 Acknowledgments 277 Contributors 279 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Cloud Ethics
Book SynopsisLouise 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.Trade Review“Beautifully written and richly documented, Louise Amoore's Cloud Ethics analyzes the workings of algorithms in contemporary society, from those assessing security risks to self-learning and self-programming neural nets. She draws on her extensive interviews with experts in the field to explore the nuances of algorithmic doubt and certainty. Finally, she calls for a new ethics of doubt in which the individual components of algorithms are scrutinized to open new spaces for critique that can ‘crack open’ the seemingly certain fabulations of algorithmic calculation. Technically stunning and critically informed, this book is required reading for anyone interested in how to resist the current trends toward algorithmic governmentality.” -- N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles“Calling for an embrace of the contingency and doubt that is inherent in the structure and working of algorithms, this important book refuses mythologies of certainty and machinic omnipotence. Framing computation as a partial accounting, Cloud Ethics moves beyond the unproductive binaries of ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ to consider algorithms as generative of complex political possibilities.” -- Caren Kaplan, author of * Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above *"Similar to scholars such as N. Katherine Hayles, Amoore engages with a wide range of philosophers and novelists to make sense of the ethicopolitical implications of algorithms. As a result, the book is highly engaging and is densely packed with novel ideas and concepts (e.g., ‘space of play’ and ‘algorithmic author function’) that will undoubtedly take on a life of their own in future research. Given their proliferation in society, there has never been a more apt time to examine the ethicopolitical impact of algorithms, and Louise Amoore’s Cloud Ethics is the book to turn to." -- Ben Jacobsen * Information, Communication & Society *"Amoore . . . has written what I consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical and political analysis of our digital condition." -- Davide Panagia * Public Books *“Amoore’s text will be of great interest to critical communication scholars, political scientists, and researchers from other disciplines and fields interested in critical algorithm studies. ...Cloud Ethics is a text that will exceed its source, one that will benefit debates and contention within the academic fields it touches on as well as society at large.” -- Catherine Jeffery * International Journal of Communication *“[Cloud Ethics] substantially advances our understanding of the ethical and political considerations necessary for navigating this ever-changing world.... It also subtly offers a methodology for the social sciences to intervene in discussions on the algorithmic, through reading against the grain of technical books and fabulation as a tool of critique.” -- Andrew C. Dwyer * AAG Review of Books *“Cloud Ethics is a demanding, exciting, and timely read. . . . It will travel well across most social sciences and even humanities, and will be of interest to scholars in ethics, politics, government and technology, but also aesthetics, law, and literature.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms 1 Part 1. Condensation 1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason 29 2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition 56 Part 2. Attribution 3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution 85 4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts 108 Part 3. Ethics 5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts 133 6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics 154 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Index 212
£72.25
Duke University Press Voluminous States
Book SynopsisConceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance.Trade Review“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty, Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.” -- Marilyn Strathern, author of * Relations: An Anthropological Account *“Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics, Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.” -- Stuart Elden, author of * Shakespearean Territories *“[Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.” -- Martin T. Fromm * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Voluminous: An Introduction / Franck Billé 1 Sovereignty 1. Warren: Subterranean Structures at a Sea Border of Ukraine / Caroline Humphrey 39 2. Tunnel: Striating and Militarizing Subterranean Space in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn 52 3. Spoofing: The Geophysics of Not Being Governed / Wayne Chambliss 64 4. Lag: Four-Dimensional Bordering in the Himalayas / Tina Harris 78 5. Traffic: Authorizing Airspace, Applying Governance / Marcel LaFlamme 91 Materiality 6. Fissure: Cracking, Forcing, and Covering Up / Klaus Dodds 105 7. Downwind: Three Phases of a Aerosol Form / Jerry Zee 119 8. Necrotone: Death-Dealing Volumetrics at the US-Mexico Border / Hilary Cunningham 131 9. Surface: Seeing, Solidifying, and Scaling Urban Space in Hong Kong / Clancy Wilmott 146 10. Gravity: On the Primacy of Terrain / Gastón Gordillo Territorial Imagination 11. Geometries: From Analogy to Performativity / Sarah Green 175 12. Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power / Aihwa Ong 191 13. Seepage: That which Oozes / Jason Cons 204 14. Jigsaw: Micropartitioning in the Enclaves of Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassu / Franck Billé 217 15. Echolocation: Within the Sonic Fold of the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Lisa Sang-Mi Min 230 Beyond: An Afterword / Debbora Battaglia 243 Bibliography 253 Index 279
£98.60
Duke University Press Pluriversal Politics
Book SynopsisReflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.Trade Review“Conveying a powerful message about the dire state of the world, Arturo Escobar offers a monumental critique: the crisis we face is civilizational; the tools that modernity has made available are inadequate to the tasks we face; and the only viable way forward entails a radical break from conventional practices. Escobar's vigorous call to decolonize our imaginaries in order to liberate our individual and collective sense of what is possible is compelling, deeply inspiring, and sure to spark urgently needed dialogue.” -- Charles R. Hale, coeditor of * Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics *“With optimism of the will and of the intellect, Arturo Escobar does not tell us what is or what could be; rather he contributes tools to imagine possibility differently—to dare think the unthinkable. The pluriverse he proposes is unknown practice, that, however, does not authorize us to think it is impossible practice.” -- Marisol de la Cadena, author of * Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds *"Escobar begins with a fundamental question: “are we really the autonomous individuals we imagine ourselves to be?” (5). . . . Over the course of subsequent chapters, Escobar convincingly demonstrates how modern individualism, far from being an innate condition of contemporary reality, is rather one possibility among many that has prevailed only because it forecloses other worldviews." -- Pedro Ponce * SFRA Review *“Pluriversal Politics is an inspirational book that not only makes us believe in the possibilities of civilizational transitions, but also offers some theoretical tools and intuitive clues for academics. . . . The book is a great entry point to the work of one of the most influential social scientists from Latin America.” -- Paola Solís Huertas * KULT Online *“Escobar calls for us to think about the possibility of another world by asking if we can separate ourselves from the nonhuman things we have created. . . . Escobar presents a woven tapestry of revolutionism, social movements, social struggles, and bottom-up approaches to call for transformation.” -- Tavis D. Jules & Benjamin D. Scherrer * Comparative Education Review *"Pluriversal Politics is a valuable contribution to conversations around politics in theAnthropocene and potential transitions. Its regional focus makes it of particular interest to thoseengaged in Latin America, but should be stimulating to anyone interested in environmental orpolitical anthropology, more-than-human anthropology, or the ontological turn more widely." -- Gabriel Urlich Lennon * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Escobar] offers ways of philosophizing life that not only have a strong emphasis on but also rootedness in praxis and activism. . . . In addition, despite the volume’s regional focus on Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América, Escobar’s decolonial lens and focus on the (re)localization of action invite any reader to extrapolate his ideas to other contexts.” -- Lisa Ausic * Politics, Religion & Ideology *Table of ContentsPreface to the English Edition ix Prologue xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible 1 1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible 13 2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes 31 3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity 46 4. Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South 67 5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory 84 6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva) 97 7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions 120 8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia 136 Notes 159 References 175 Index 185
£72.25
Duke University Press Mekong Dreaming
Book SynopsisAs vast infrastructure projects transform the Mekong River, Andrew Alan Johnson explores of how rapid environmental change affects how people live, believe, and dream.Trade Review“Mekong Dreaming is both an exemplary work of ethnography and a timely and important intervention in contemporary debates in anthropological theory. Focusing on northeast Thailand and the effects of dam construction on the Mekong among local fishing and farming communities, this book's original contribution consists in its foregrounding of uncertainty and unknowability in the lived experience of non-western cosmologies.” -- Stuart J. McLean, coeditor of * Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing *“Andrew Alan Johnson's lucid and richly detailed ethnography of the Thai-Lao border shows how the inchoate and the unknowable can be apprehended through genuinely empirical research. In this masterful analysis, Johnson shows how a marginalized population grapples with the intensified environmental uncertainties generated by modern technology and political upheaval by deploying a cosmological vision that enfolds piety, potentiality, and materiality in a tangled experiential frame.” -- Michael Herzfeld, author of * Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok *"The book is clearly written, presenting a compelling narrative of daily life and also delving into complex topics without drowning in academic jargon. As such it is accessible for both students and experts. . . . The power of Johnson’s approach is that rather than simply casting uncertainty as a negative, he explores the ways in which uncertainty—the power of 'maybe'—can act as a potency rather than simply something to be worked around." -- Erin B. Taylor * Anthropology Book Forum *“Mekong Dreaming is a lovely, fluent ethnography of a river and its political ecology, focusing on the people on one bank of the Mekong where it forms a border between Thailand and Laos…. Johnson’s style is crisp and engaging and his dealings with recent theory are all concrete and pointed…. Johnson has produced political ethnography of a high order.” -- Leo Coleman * PoLAR Online *“This accessible anthropological work, Mekong Dreaming, demonstrates how infrastructural projects—in this case, hydropower dams on the Mekong—interrupt and reconfigure the social life of the river and relations of those whose fate has long been intertwined with its currents.” -- Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre * LSE Review of Books *“Johnson’s argument is complex, deftly interweaving fields as diverse as environmental anthropology, migration studies, Thai animism and mediumship, border studies, and more. The resulting ethnography is illuminating and compelling.” -- Mary Beth Mills * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Johnson’s writing is a pleasure: eclectic, erudite and sometimes eccentric.... He handles weighty concepts lightly, and doesn’t let unwieldy terminology upset the flow of the very reader-friendly text. He comes across as a committed, skilled and very human fieldworker.” -- Ashley Carruthers * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“[Mekong Dreaming] will be a useful text in anthropology courses. I highly recommend this book as it...provides new and important insights.” -- Ian G. Baird * Sojourn *“[Mekong Dreaming] provides crucial insights into the interconnectedness between daily life, environment, and religious experiences.” -- Grzegorz Fraszczak * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Through a Glass, Darkly 1 1. Naga and Garuda 29 2. River Beings 69 3. Dwelling under Distant Suns 104 4. The River Grew Tired of Us 130 5. Human and Inhuman Worlds 161 Notes 171 Bibliography 179 Index 193
£90.10
Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.Trade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
£75.65
Duke University Press Animal Traffic
Book SynopsisRosemary-Claire 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.Trade Review“This is an immensely important book for anybody concerned with capitalist natures and traffics in the nonhuman. Combining scrupulous fieldwork with stunning theorizations of ‘lively capital’, Collard adapts Marxist and feminist thought to the double task of analyzing and contesting a global trade in exotic pets. By following how wild-caught species get made into thinglike forms of capital, this book spurs a profound rethinking of commodified and noncommodified life, fetishism, enclosure, and social-ecological reproduction.” -- Nicole Shukin, author of * Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times *“Animal Traffic brings the spaces and circuits of the exotic pet trade to life, casting light on an important aspect of defaunation in the tropics and an underappreciated way that animals are being commodified. Rosemary-Claire Collard presents rich ethnographic accounts of key sites of the exotic pet trade and weaves these together with a compelling discussion of the values, practices, and complications involved in reducing wild animals to ‘lively capital’ as well as the great barriers to decommodifying animals after their lives have been wrested from them. This is a moving and beautifully written book and a major contribution to the fields of critical animal studies, political ecology, and biodiversity conservation.” -- Tony Weis, author of * The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock *“Animal Traffic is a unique contribution to the existing robust studies about the legal and illegal wildlife trade. The uniqueness stems from Collard’s theoretical framework as well as her fieldwork.” -- Tanya Wyatt * Oryx *“There are so many things to say and think about in relation to this book, which is a testament to the richness of Collard’s research and the brilliance of her analysis.... We are left ... with a call to action to radically transform not only our theories but also our relationships with animals under and outside of capitalism....” -- Kathryn Gillespie * Antipode *“[Animal Traffic] is a timely book that poses provocative questions for conservation practice and regulation, while also proposing intermediate strategies and contributing empirical and conceptual resources. It will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students in social sciences and conservation.” -- Sophie Haines * Conservation and Society *“In bringing together an analysis of the capitalist commodity chain of the exotic pet trade through her concept of animal fetishism, [Collard] builds bridges between economists and animal studies researchers and opens plenty of doors for future work in both areas. . . . I believe this book will be an essential read for all human–animal and commodity researchers from this point forward.” -- Julie Urbanik * AAG Review of Books *“[Animal Traffic] will inspire reflection and questions. Importantly, in a very moving way, Collard brings into the light and theorizes well an entire world of suffering that is laden with human callousness, money, and violence—a world of which many have been for too long unaware.” -- Connie L. Johnston * Geographical Review *“Although Collard deals in complex theory, she writes with a clarity and sensitivity that is accessible to readers across disciplines . . . including Marxist theory, human geography, feminist political economy, and animal studies.” -- Rachel Matthews * Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy *Table of ContentsA Note on the Cover Art Acknowledgments Introduction 1. An Act of Severing 2. Noah's Ark on the Auction Block 3. Crafting the Unencounterable Animal 4. Wild Life Politics Notes References Index
£86.70
Duke University Press Spacing Debt
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Christopher Harker how Israel's use of debt to keep Palestinians economically unstable is a form of slow colonial violence embedded into the everyday lives of citizens.Trade Review“The first in-depth ethnographic research on debt formation in the contemporary Palestinian context, this groundbreaking work proposes a host of new ways for social geographers to rethink debt at multiple scales. Spacing Debt ambitiously engages theoretical debates across a wide array of disciplinary approaches and effectively links it with fascinating and carefully treated ethnographic cases and interview materials.” -- Deborah James, author of * Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa *“This is the first sustained treatment of the everyday lives of debt in the Palestinian context based on in-depth fieldwork and long-term engagement with the communities under study. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this groundbreaking study offers much-needed sociological insight into Palestine's neoliberal debt regime, while showing how Palestine as 'colonial exception' is a rich site to theorize social geographies of debt.” -- Rema Hammami, Birzeit University“Spacing Debt is an essential read for scholars of debt and finance, and for those interested in modes of theory-building that start from the ways in which people live and choose to narrate their lives.... Thinking of debt as endurance helps us see people living with debt as active agents." -- Enora Robin * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“Spacing Debt is a thorough and important book that will serve as a reference on the livelihood of urban Palestinians for years to come. Ethnographically grounded and theoretically ambitious, the book offers an interesting read on courses in economic sociology, global development, and the like.” -- Lotte Segal * Middle East Journal *
£70.55
Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisIn Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city''s strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect chaTrade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
£20.69
Duke University Press Viapolitics
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301
£75.65
Duke University Press The Nature of Space
Book SynopsisIn The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragmented realities and partial truths without trying to theorize their way around them. Based on these premises, Santos examines the role of space, which he defines as indissoluble systems of objects and systems of actions in social processes, while providing a geographic contribution to the production of a critical social theory.Trade Review“Milton Santos was one of the most important Black thinkers in the Americas writing in the last four decades, one of the most important Brazilian intellectuals of all time, and one of the most cited and noteworthy geographers in Latin America. This extremely important translation subverts our tendencies to ignore scholarship being produced in the global South and marks a key step in decolonizing thought in US academe.” -- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, author of * Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil *“Milton Santos is one of the most distinguished intellectuals of our epoch. So many of us have learned from him. I have long seen in his work something that became one of my modus operandi: transversality . . . not the familiar knowledge silos but the cutting across of those silos.” -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"Milton Santos has offered one map for crossing the perilous terrain of academic specialties. At a time when so many take geography for granted as maps appear at our fingertips with the click of a button, this deeply humanistic guide may prompt us to ask anew where in the world we have been set down." -- Lawrence Rosen * Boston Review *"There is little doubt that Milton Santos (1926–2001) is the most important Brazilian geographer of all time. . . . The most obvious audience of this work is advanced graduate students and scholars from departments across social sciences. Geographers will benefit from being exposed to one of the most important Brazilian books in our field of knowledge, and other social scientists will acquire tools to increasingly recognize the importance of space as a relevant category of analysis of society in our current times, a mo(ve)ment that is long overdue." -- Thiago Bogossian * AAG Review of Books *"The Nature of Space was originally published twenty-five years ago, but its insights about the unavoidable, unstable dialectical relationships between global rationality and local responses have since been reinforced in various ways by social media, climate change, and now the Covid-19 pandemic. . . . Santos was right. The world has shifted to a new geographical reality. This English translation of his book offers a valuable point of departure for making some sense of it." -- Edward Relph * Society & Natural Resources *“Opening this book [connected] me to a world of geography scholarship for the most part ignored, actively or otherwise, in the Anglophone academy.” -- David McLaughlin * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the English-Language Edition: Milton Santos: Rebel of the Backlands, Insurgent Academic, Prescient Scholar / Susanna Hecht vii Introduction 1 Part I. An Ontology of Space: Founding Ideas 1. Techniques, Time, and Geographic Space 13 2. Space: Systems of Objects, Systems of Action 34 3. Geographic Space, a Hybrid 53 Part II. The Production of Content-Forms 4. Space and the Notion of Totality 69 5. From the Diversification of Nature to the Territorial Division of Labor 81 6. Time (Events) and Space 91 Part III. For a Geography of the Present 7. The Current Technical System 111 8. Unicities: The Production of Planetary Intelligence 124 9. Objects and Actions Today: Norms and Territory 142 10. From the Natural Milieu to the Technical-Scientific-Informational Milieu 157 11. For a Geography of Networks 177 12. Horizontalities and Verticalities 192 13. Spaces of Rationality 198 Part IV. The Power of Place 14. Place and the Everyday 215 Universal Order, Local Order: Summary and Conclusion 229 Notes 237 References 241 Index 273
£75.65
Duke University Press Viapolitics
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301
£20.69
Duke University Press The Surrounds
Book SynopsisIn The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the suTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Exposing the Surrounds as Urban Infrastructure 1 1. Without Capture: From Extinction to Abolition 21 2. Forgetting Being Forgotten 61 3. Rebellion without Redemption 100 Coda. Extensions beyond Value 134 References 139 Index 153
£71.10
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£72.25
Duke University Press Staple Security
Book SynopsisJessica Barnes explores the central role that bread and wheat play in Egyptian daily life as well as the anxieties surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out these staples.Trade Review"The book’s forte lies in the wider use of a range of sources, including ethnography, interviews with various actors in Egypt, participant observation, newspapers and archival materials. . . . Another strength is how the book draws connections with issues of staple security in countries in Africa but also from other continents. Barnes also provides extensive illustrations that are well linked to the content of each chapter. The concept of staple security is of value to anyone interested in the subject of food and politics as well as food histories." -- Chama Kaluba Jickson * H-Environment *"Barnes’s Staple Security is an important contribution to the existing literature that unravels the myriad relationships, histories, and politics coalescing around one commodity or staple, similar, for example, to studies of sugar, coffee, and rice. One could imagine scholars and students from agrifood studies, Middle East and North Africa studies, anthropology, and geography finding much value in this text." -- Megan A. Carney * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Units vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Staple Becomings 39 2. Gold of the Land 81 3. Grain on the Move 113 4. Subsidized Bread (with Mariam Taher) 153 5. Homemade Bread 191 Conclusion 225 Notes 239 References 271 Index 289
£73.95
Duke University Press Ruderal City
Book SynopsisIn Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal—originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks—to theorize Berlin as a “ruderal city.” Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries—gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields—to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today’s uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals Table of ContentsPreface: Forest Tracks vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Rubble 1. Botanical Encounters 35 Gardens 2. Gardening the Ruins 67 Parks 3. Provisioning against Austerity 103 4. Barbecue Area 138 Forests 5. Living in the Unheimlich 173 6. Stories of the “Wild East” 205 Epilogue: Seeding Livable Futures 239 Notes 245 References 283 Index 319
£73.95
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£19.79
Duke University Press Staple Security
Book SynopsisEgyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail, she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain, and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to secure their consistent availability and quality.Trade Review"The book’s forte lies in the wider use of a range of sources, including ethnography, interviews with various actors in Egypt, participant observation, newspapers and archival materials. . . . Another strength is how the book draws connections with issues of staple security in countries in Africa but also from other continents. Barnes also provides extensive illustrations that are well linked to the content of each chapter. The concept of staple security is of value to anyone interested in the subject of food and politics as well as food histories." -- Chama Kaluba Jickson * H-Environment *"Barnes’s Staple Security is an important contribution to the existing literature that unravels the myriad relationships, histories, and politics coalescing around one commodity or staple, similar, for example, to studies of sugar, coffee, and rice. One could imagine scholars and students from agrifood studies, Middle East and North Africa studies, anthropology, and geography finding much value in this text." -- Megan A. Carney * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Units vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Staple Becomings 39 2. Gold of the Land 81 3. Grain on the Move 113 4. Subsidized Bread (with Mariam Taher) 153 5. Homemade Bread 191 Conclusion 225 Notes 239 References 271 Index 289
£19.79
Duke University Press The Black Geographic
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated.Trade Review“This volume takes on the monumental task of pulling together scholarship from different geographic areas, time periods, and disciplines to put forth a view on the current state of Black Geographies while gesturing toward new futures. Pushing the field, The Black Geographic is a defining text.” -- Ashanté M. Reese, author of * Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. *“The Black Geographic will continue to extend and push the tradition of Black Geographies in fresh, insightful, and important new ways through the insights of the newest generation of scholars who are defining and redefining the terrain of these discussions and debates. A superb collection.” -- Nik Heynen, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study / Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis 1 Part I. Praxis 1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies / Danielle Purifoy 27 2. Shaking the Basemap / Judith Madera 50 3. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe / Chiyuma Elliott 72 Part II. Resistances 4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara / Ampson Hagan 97 5. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy / Diana Negrin 124 6. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City / Jordanna Matlon 145 7. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries / Solange Munoz 167 Part III. Futurity 8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City / C. N. E. Corbin 189 9. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta 213 10. The San Francisco Blues / Lindsey Dillon 246 11. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension / Anna Livia Brand 264 12. A Black Geographic Reverie & Reckoning in Ink and Form / Sharita Towne 287 Contributors 323 Index 327
£77.35
Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisThrough an ethnography of rapidly transforming urban neighborhoods in Istanbul and Cairo, Sarah El-Kazaz shows how the battle for housing has shifted away from the redistributive politics of the welfare state to neoliberal urban planning and design practices.Trade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£78.30
Duke University Press How to Lose the Hounds
Book SynopsisExamining historically Black maroon communities in Maryland that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power, Celeste Winston explores how the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery anticipates future Black refusals of policing.Trade Review“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” -- Neil Roberts, author of * Freedom as Marronage *“With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology 21 2. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies 37 3. Maroon Justice 65 4. Community beyond Policing 87 5. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy 109 Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore 129 Notes 133 References 139 Index 159
£70.55
Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisIn Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city. She outlines how multiple actors—from highly capitalized international NGOs and corporations to city dwellers, bureaucrats, and planning experts—use careful urban design to empower conflicting agendas, whether manipulating property markets to protect affordable housing or corner luxury real estate. El-Kazaz shows that such contemporary politicizations of urban design stem from unresolved struggles at the heart of messy transitions from the welfare state to neoliberalism, which have shifted the politics of redistribution from contested political arenas to design practices operating within market logics, ultimatelTrade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£19.79
Duke University Press Fear of a Dead White Planet
Book Synopsis
£74.70
University of Toronto Press Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures
Book SynopsisThe book takes a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures. Cases highlight similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Scope and Scales of Suburban Infrastructure Section 1: Situating Suburban Infrastructures 2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure? 3. Rescaling the Suburban: New Directions in the Relationship Between Governance and Infrastructure 4. Financial Infrastructures of Suburbanism: From Suburbanization to Value Extraction Section 2: Suburban Infrastuctures in Crisis 5. Phases of Neoliberal Infrastructure: Dynamic Capitalist and Institutional Learning in the Neoliberal Experiment Test Zones of Post-Soviet Europe 6. "Designed to Fail": Technopolitics of Disavowal in an Urbanizing Frontier of India 7. Governance by Crises and Failing Infrastructure in Michigan: The 21st Century Republican Strategy 8. Infrastructure Interludes: Socio-technical Disposition and Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems in the Stockholm Archipelago 9. Suburban Constellations of Water Supply and Sanitation in Hanoi iii Section 3: Reshaping Suburban Infrastructures 10. The "In-Between Territories" of Suburban Infrastructure Politics 11. Recentralization and Green Infrastructures: Seeking Compatibility between Alternatives to North American Suburban Development 12. ‘Green Infrastructure’: The Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt as Urban Boundary? 13. Building on Quick Sand: Infrastructural Megaprojects in China 14. Retrofitting Obsolete Suburbs – Networks, Fixes and Divisions 15. Sustainability as an Urban Way of Living: The Uneven Outcomes of "Sustainable Mobility Infrastructure" Planning Conclusion: Global Suburban Infrastructure Trajectories
£60.35
University of Toronto Press Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures
Book SynopsisThe book takes a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures. Cases highlight similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Scope and Scales of Suburban Infrastructure Section 1: Situating Suburban Infrastructures 2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure? 3. Rescaling the Suburban: New Directions in the Relationship Between Governance and Infrastructure 4. Financial Infrastructures of Suburbanism: From Suburbanization to Value Extraction Section 2: Suburban Infrastuctures in Crisis 5. Phases of Neoliberal Infrastructure: Dynamic Capitalist and Institutional Learning in the Neoliberal Experiment Test Zones of Post-Soviet Europe 6. "Designed to Fail": Technopolitics of Disavowal in an Urbanizing Frontier of India 7. Governance by Crises and Failing Infrastructure in Michigan: The 21st Century Republican Strategy 8. Infrastructure Interludes: Socio-technical Disposition and Planning for Water and Wastewater Systems in the Stockholm Archipelago 9. Suburban Constellations of Water Supply and Sanitation in Hanoi iii Section 3: Reshaping Suburban Infrastructures 10. The "In-Between Territories" of Suburban Infrastructure Politics 11. Recentralization and Green Infrastructures: Seeking Compatibility between Alternatives to North American Suburban Development 12. ‘Green Infrastructure’: The Greater Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt as Urban Boundary? 13. Building on Quick Sand: Infrastructural Megaprojects in China 14. Retrofitting Obsolete Suburbs – Networks, Fixes and Divisions 15. Sustainability as an Urban Way of Living: The Uneven Outcomes of "Sustainable Mobility Infrastructure" Planning Conclusion: Global Suburban Infrastructure Trajectories
£28.80
University of Nebraska Press TopoiGraphein
Book SynopsisIn Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to revealthat to be human is to know how tolive with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including CodeInconnu, Lord of the Flies, and Apocalypse Now,and focusing on key concerns developed in the works of the philosophers Deleuze, Olsson, and Wittgenstein, Abrahamsson starts within the notion of fixed spatiality, in whichhuman thought and action are anchored in the given of identity. He then movesthrough a social world in which spatiotemporal transformations are neitherfixed nor taken for granted. Finally he edges into the pure temporality that liesbeyond the maps of fixed points and social relations. Each chapter is organized into two subjects: topoi, orexcerpts from the films, and graphein, the author's interpretation ofpresented theoriesto mirror the displacements,transpositions, juxtapositions, fluctuations, and transformations between delimited categorieTrade Review"Readers with an interest in spatial theory or cinematic geography should obviously appreciate this work, but so should anyone who wants to understand how a world falls apart and continues to fall apart."—Marcus A. Doel, Social and Cultural Geography“Topoi/Graphein poses the most profound philosophical and conceptual questions concerning the human condition from a compelling geographical perspective. A sustained meditation on our engagement with the world, it journeys over remarkably wide-ranging territory, delivering valuable insights with an uncommon intensity of thought. This is a heavyweight work that wears its profundity lightly.”—David B. Clarke, professor of human geography and head of the Department of Geography at Swansea University“Generations of scholars have identified their respective positions with reference to landmark propositions emanating from singular publications. Topoi/Graphein holds the promise of becoming such a book for a coming generation. It tackles its subject matter with considerable verve and elegant style.”—Ulf Strohmayer, professor of geography at the National University of Ireland, GalwayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: Born Again, by Gunnar Olsson Introduction: Angle of Power Part 1. Code inconnu/Crossroads Chapter 1. Encounter/Point Chapter 2. Wall/Stone Chapter 3. Code inconnu/When Above Chapter 4. Limits/Oedipus Chapter 5. Stranger/Terra Firma Part 2. Lord of the Flies/Passages Chapter 6. Desert/Line Chapter 7. Thing/Swerve Chapter 8. Lord of the Flies/Through Chapter 9. Division/Hermes Chapter 10. Fire/Terra Nullius Part 3. Apocalypse Now/The Event Chapter 11. Dream/Plane Chapter 12. River/Cloud Chapter 13. Apocalypse Now/In-Between Chapter 14. Darkness/Janus Chapter 15. Abyss/Horror Vacui Part 4. Geographein Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Crafting a Republic for the World
Book SynopsisIn the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant post-colonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish colonial legacy.Trade Review"In Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia, Lina del Castillo offers a glimpse into the process of transforming Colombia into an Andean-Atlantic nation."—Sharika D. Crawford, Latin American Research Review"This ambitious and invigorating book will incite discussion for years to come. It sets an important precedent for describing nineteenth-century Latin America as a period of immense political, economic, scientific, and even cultural creativity rather than as a period consumed by caudillismo, corruption, and political fragmentation. . . . The book is tremendously successful."—Fidel J. Tavárez, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“This is the rare scholarly work that will make valuable contributions to not just one but three historical fields: the political history of republicanism, the cultural history of nineteenth-century mentalités, and the global history of science.”—James E. Sanders, professor of history at Utah State University“Lina del Castillo’s work deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America as part of the vanguard of democracy.”—Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick“Deeply researched and innovative, Crafting a Republic for the World shows how nineteenth-century Colombians invented the notion of colonial legacies and how this notion was essential to the creation of a new science of republicanism. An inspiring account of how ideas about the past shape politics and policy!”—Marixa Lasso, associate professor of history at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia“According to Del Castillo’s sharp and provocative analysis, Colombia’s oft-cited ‘colonial legacy’ was actually a nineteenth-century construct, one that has far outlived its early republican creators as an explanatory framework for all that is wrong with modern Latin America. Crafting a Republic for the World will spark scholarly debate by forcing us to rethink this legacy.”—Nancy Appelbaum, professor of history at Binghamton University, SUNYTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Postcolonial Inventions of Spanish American Colonial Legacies Chapter 1. Gran Colombian Print Culture and the Erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment Chapter 2. A Political Economy of Circulation Chapter 3. Calculating Equality and the Postcolonial Reproduction of the Colonial State Chapter 4. Political Ethnography and the Colonial in the Postcolonial Mind Chapter 5. Constitutions and Political Geographies Harness Universal Manhood Suffrage Chapter 6. Civic Religion vs. the Catholic Church and the Ending of a Republican Project Conclusion: A Continental Postcolonial Colombia Challenges the Latin Race Idea Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press TopoiGraphein
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Readers with an interest in spatial theory or cinematic geography should obviously appreciate this work, but so should anyone who wants to understand how a world falls apart and continues to fall apart."—Marcus A. Doel, Social and Cultural Geography“Topoi/Graphein poses the most profound philosophical and conceptual questions concerning the human condition from a compelling geographical perspective. A sustained meditation on our engagement with the world, it journeys over remarkably wide-ranging territory, delivering valuable insights with an uncommon intensity of thought. This is a heavyweight work that wears its profundity lightly.”—David B. Clarke, professor of human geography and head of the Department of Geography at Swansea University“Generations of scholars have identified their respective positions with reference to landmark propositions emanating from singular publications. Topoi/Graphein holds the promise of becoming such a book for a coming generation. It tackles its subject matter with considerable verve and elegant style.”—Ulf Strohmayer, professor of geography at the National University of Ireland, GalwayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: Born Again, by Gunnar Olsson Introduction: Angle of Power Part 1. Code inconnu/Crossroads Chapter 1. Encounter/Point Chapter 2. Wall/Stone Chapter 3. Code inconnu/When Above Chapter 4. Limits/Oedipus Chapter 5. Stranger/Terra Firma Part 2. Lord of the Flies/Passages Chapter 6. Desert/Line Chapter 7. Thing/Swerve Chapter 8. Lord of the Flies/Through Chapter 9. Division/Hermes Chapter 10. Fire/Terra Nullius Part 3. Apocalypse Now/The Event Chapter 11. Dream/Plane Chapter 12. River/Cloud Chapter 13. Apocalypse Now/In-Between Chapter 14. Darkness/Janus Chapter 15. Abyss/Horror Vacui Part 4. Geographein Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Public Privates
Book Synopsis Public Privates focuses on public and private acts and spaces in media to explore the formation of geographies. Situated at the intersections of cultural geography, feminist geography, and media studies, Marcia R. England’s study argues that media both reinforce and subvert traditional notions of public and private spaces through depiction of behaviors and actions within those spheres. Though popular media contribute to the erosion of indistinct edges between spaces, they also frequently reinforce the traditional dualism through particular codings that designate the normed and gendered socio-spatial actions appropriate in each sphere—producing geographical imaginations and behaviors. England applies her immensely readable construction to a diverse and wide-ranging array of media including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Fast and the Furious, J-Horror, sitcoms, Degrassi, and reality TV. By examining the gendered representations of pTrade Review"I strongly encourage cultural and feminist geographers to read this book and use it as representative of the work in our discipline. . . . This book is a remarkable achievement, and it made me even more excited about the future of feminist geography and the study of popular culture."—Julian Barr, Journal of Cultural Geography“With a wealth of examples drawn from comedy, horror, drama, erotica, and reality TV, Public Privates offers a wonderfully comprehensive look at the dichotomy between public and private space and how it is subtly and complexly gendered.”—Paul C. Adams, professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Geographies of Media and Communication “Public Privates presents new insights into the intersection of media, space, and geography. It will further expand the discourse and provide additional avenues of exploration for other geographers wishing to address this topic. The style is quite readable and is easily understandable, making the key themes easy to grasp. It would make a good textbook for upper-division human geography courses, graduate-level courses, and even courses outside geography such as communications and humanities.”—James Craine, professor of geography at California State University, Northridge, and the editor of Aether: The Journal of Media GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welcome to the Hellmouth: Paradoxical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2. Home Is Where the Heart Is: Fast and Furious Geographies 3. Scared to Death: Spaces of J-Horror 4. Visions of Gender: Codings of Televisual Space 5. Navigating Degrassi Community School: Socio-Spatial Identities in Degrassi 6. Big Brother Is Watching You: Why You Should Be Watching Reality TV 7. Kinky Geographies: Sexuality in Mediated Spaces 8. Public Privates Exposed: Media, Gender, and Space Appendix: Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Public Privates
Book SynopsisFocuses on public and private acts and spaces in media to explore the formation of geographies. Situated at the intersections of cultural geography, feminist geography, and media studies, Marcia R. England's study argues that media both reinforce and subvert traditional notions of public and private spaces through depiction of behaviours and actions within those spheres.Trade Review"I strongly encourage cultural and feminist geographers to read this book and use it as representative of the work in our discipline. . . . This book is a remarkable achievement, and it made me even more excited about the future of feminist geography and the study of popular culture."—Julian Barr, Journal of Cultural Geography“With a wealth of examples drawn from comedy, horror, drama, erotica, and reality TV, Public Privates offers a wonderfully comprehensive look at the dichotomy between public and private space and how it is subtly and complexly gendered.”—Paul C. Adams, professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Geographies of Media and Communication “Public Privates presents new insights into the intersection of media, space, and geography. It will further expand the discourse and provide additional avenues of exploration for other geographers wishing to address this topic. The style is quite readable and is easily understandable, making the key themes easy to grasp. It would make a good textbook for upper-division human geography courses, graduate-level courses, and even courses outside geography such as communications and humanities.”—James Craine, professor of geography at California State University, Northridge, and the editor of Aether: The Journal of Media GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welcome to the Hellmouth: Paradoxical Spaces in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2. Home Is Where the Heart Is: Fast and Furious Geographies 3. Scared to Death: Spaces of J-Horror 4. Visions of Gender: Codings of Televisual Space 5. Navigating Degrassi Community School: Socio-Spatial Identities in Degrassi 6. Big Brother Is Watching You: Why You Should Be Watching Reality TV 7. Kinky Geographies: Sexuality in Mediated Spaces 8. Public Privates Exposed: Media, Gender, and Space Appendix: Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Psychoanalysis and the GlObal
Book SynopsisExplores the hole at the heart of the ""glObal"", meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis to expose the unconscious desires, excesses, and antagonisms that accompany the world of economic flows, cultural circulation, and sociopolitical change.Trade Review"For any geographer interested in the potential usefulness of political psychoanalysis in geography, this book is ‘the (Real) Thing’. This anthology proves not only that the theories are compatible, but they can also be fused in a lot of different creative ways, opening up a rather undiscovered realm of experimental studies in social studies overall."—Erik Hansson, Social and Cultural Geography"What I find fascinating about Kapoor’s book is the extent to which Lacan’s work provides new lines of argument and perspectives for the numerous discussions of globalization. . . . Even for the uninitiated, this book provides worthwhile insights into a theoretical lens such as Lacan’s."—Vivi Djaja, Canadian Geographer"[This] book differs from many edited volumes I have read in certain commendable ways. It is full of small bursts of insight, compelling examples and citations, and novel information and perspectives. . . . The book and its contributors are deeply engaging, even energizing."—Daniel Sullivan, Kritikon Litterarum“Psychoanalysis and the GlObal brilliantly confirms Jacques Lacan’s thesis that the unconscious is political. It not merely applies psychoanalysis to global economic and political movements; it reveals how the unconscious itself is already traversed by social and political antagonisms. For this reason alone, this edited volume by Ilan Kapoor is obligatory reading, not only for those who want to penetrate the dark underside of our social life but also for those who want to bring out the economic and political mediation of our most intimate traumas.”—Slavoj Žižek, senior researcher, Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia“This collection demonstrates the fecundity of thinking spatially through psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytically through space. Neither psychoanalysis nor geography will be the same. Entering these pages, readers find a world upside-down, where consciousness dissolves into its dirty, multifarious, and unconscious splendor, providing us with analytical and practical means for imagining a world beyond ‘the end of the Anthropocene.’”—Heidi J. Nast, professor in the International Studies Program at DePaul University“There is no more pressing time to be using psychoanalytic theory than now, and this book demonstrates the urgency of this task almost with every turn of the page. It is a pathbreaking —‘next generation’—analysis, revealing the power of psychoanalytic geographies in addressing key global challenges.”—Steve Pile, professor of human geography at the Open UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Chapter Summaries Acknowledgments Introduction Ilan Kapoor Part 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy 1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in Europe Dan Bousfield 2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial Conquest Maureen Sioh 3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying Planet Robert Fletcher 4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political Economy Eleanor MacDonald Part 2. Cultural Anxieties 5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the Other Anna J. Secor 6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? Chizu Sato 7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and Lacan Lucas Pohl 8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of God Japhy Wilson Part 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City 9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in Singapore Nathan F. Bullock 10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size Fetish Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente 11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story 000 Pieter de Vries 12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir Square Ilan Kapoor Epilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of Populism Ilan Kapoor Contributors Index
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Psychoanalysis and the GlObal
Book Synopsis Psychoanalysis and the GlObal is about the hole at the heart of the “glObal,” meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis to expose the unconscious desires, excesses, and antagonisms that accompany the world of economic flows, cultural circulation, and sociopolitical change. Unlike the mainstream discourse of globalization, which most often assumes unencumbered movement across borders, these contributors uncover what Lacan calls “the Real” of the glObal—its rifts, gaps, exceptions, and contradictions.Psychoanalysis and the GlObaladopts a psychoanalytic lens to highlight the unconscious circuits of enjoyment, racism, and anxiety that trouble, if not undermine, globalization’s economic, cultural, and environmental goals or gains.The contributors interrogate how unconscious desires and drives are externalized in our incTrade Review"For any geographer interested in the potential usefulness of political psychoanalysis in geography, this book is ‘the (Real) Thing’. This anthology proves not only that the theories are compatible, but they can also be fused in a lot of different creative ways, opening up a rather undiscovered realm of experimental studies in social studies overall."—Erik Hansson, Social and Cultural Geography"What I find fascinating about Kapoor’s book is the extent to which Lacan’s work provides new lines of argument and perspectives for the numerous discussions of globalization. . . . Even for the uninitiated, this book provides worthwhile insights into a theoretical lens such as Lacan’s."—Vivi Djaja, Canadian Geographer"[This] book differs from many edited volumes I have read in certain commendable ways. It is full of small bursts of insight, compelling examples and citations, and novel information and perspectives. . . . The book and its contributors are deeply engaging, even energizing."—Daniel Sullivan, Kritikon Litterarum“Psychoanalysis and the GlObal brilliantly confirms Jacques Lacan’s thesis that the unconscious is political. It not merely applies psychoanalysis to global economic and political movements; it reveals how the unconscious itself is already traversed by social and political antagonisms. For this reason alone, this edited volume by Ilan Kapoor is obligatory reading, not only for those who want to penetrate the dark underside of our social life but also for those who want to bring out the economic and political mediation of our most intimate traumas.”—Slavoj Žižek, senior researcher, Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia“This collection demonstrates the fecundity of thinking spatially through psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytically through space. Neither psychoanalysis nor geography will be the same. Entering these pages, readers find a world upside-down, where consciousness dissolves into its dirty, multifarious, and unconscious splendor, providing us with analytical and practical means for imagining a world beyond ‘the end of the Anthropocene.’”—Heidi J. Nast, professor in the International Studies Program at DePaul University“There is no more pressing time to be using psychoanalytic theory than now, and this book demonstrates the urgency of this task almost with every turn of the page. It is a pathbreaking —‘next generation’—analysis, revealing the power of psychoanalytic geographies in addressing key global challenges.”—Steve Pile, professor of human geography at the Open UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Chapter Summaries Acknowledgments Introduction Ilan Kapoor Part 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy 1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in Europe Dan Bousfield 2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial Conquest Maureen Sioh 3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying Planet Robert Fletcher 4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political Economy Eleanor MacDonald Part 2. Cultural Anxieties 5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the Other Anna J. Secor 6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? Chizu Sato 7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and Lacan Lucas Pohl 8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of God Japhy Wilson Part 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City 9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in Singapore Nathan F. Bullock 10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size Fetish Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente 11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story 000 Pieter de Vries 12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir Square Ilan Kapoor Epilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of Populism Ilan Kapoor Contributors Index
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Mapping Beyond Measure
Book SynopsisMapping Beyond Measure analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, arguing that together they challenge the dominant modern view of the world as a measurable and malleable geometrical space. Trade Review"Mapping Beyond Measure participates in a broader scholarly discussion about the cultural formation of geographic knowledge and the ways that we think about and experience our place in the world through maps and other cultural representations of the earth. The book also provides a valuable resource for a growing number of historians who use digital mapping as a method of inquiry."—Kristan M. Hanson, H-Maps“In this thoughtful analysis of ‘map art’ Simon Ferdinand offers an innovative interpretation of contemporary artworks that tests and reconfigures the challenges and opportunities posed by the transformation in global modernity of our lived world into lines and grids. ‘I map, therefore I am modern’ is the resounding implication that emerges from Ferdinand’s perceptive exploration of how visual artists in our times have used the map form to relate to the world, to the globe, indeed to earth itself.”—Sumathi Ramaswamy, author of Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe“This is an important book on a theoretical level. By looking at recent technologies as a continuation of existing ontologies, Ferdinand goes beyond the hype around digital mapping. The chapters touch deftly on many themes that will also be of interest to academic readers who don’t deal explicitly with maps in their work, including utopia, modernity, quantification, and futurism, among many others.”—Jess Bier, author of Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific KnowledgeTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: I Map Therefore I Am Modern1. The Shock of the Whole: Phenomenologies of Global Mapping in Solomon Nikritin’s The Old and the New2. Combined and Uneven Cartography: Maps and Time in Alison Hildreth’s Forthrights and Meanders3. Drawing Like a State: Maps, Modernity, and Warfare in Gert Jan Kocken’s Depictions4. Insular Imaginations: Statehood, Islands, and Globalization in Satomi Matoba’s Utopia5. Cartography at Ground Level: Spectrality and Streets in Jeremy Wood’s My Ghost and Meridians6. Another Chorein: Alternative Ontologies in Peter Greenaway’s A Walk Through HEnvoi: Artists Astride Shifting Mapping ParadigmsNotesBibliographyIndex
£52.70
University of Nebraska Press Animated Lands
Book SynopsisIn Animated Lands Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm focus on territory as a living phenomenonand territoriality as an active and constantly reshaping force. They explore the complexity of territorial production through a series of parallel investigations into fundamental territorial themes, such as rhythm, synchronization, melody, morphogenesis, and animism. The notion of territory is excavated through case studies including the analysis of urban playgrounds, homemaking, the transformations of urban walls, and the stabilization of peculiar building types such as the house-museum. These empirical examples span such cities as Ahmedabad, Amsterdam, London, and Rome. Animated Lands provides a broad introduction to what a theory of territories could be and how it could help to advance sociospatial studies. Trade Review"Brighenti and Kārrholm offer unique insight into the concept of territory from their writing positions as professors of social and architectural theory, respectively. Each chapter introduces concepts that enrich our understanding of territory. Brighenti and Kārrholm not only trace out the intellectual legacy of different concepts and approaches that inspired their writing but provide empirical examples that illustrate and ground often abstract ideas."—Gordon Waitt, Social & Cultural Geography“Like Husserl, Freud, and other visionaries, Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm have discovered a new continent. With great erudition, a Cartesian style, and force of conviction, they have opened the territory for transdisciplinary exploration. The result is breathtaking. It is not just an amazingly good book but a manifesto for a whole new area of studies: territoriology.”—Frédéric Vandenberghe, professor of sociology at the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro“Animated Lands breathes new life into the study of territory. Grounded in the particulars of walls and everyday places, it also cuts across traditional intellectual territories to assemble new theoretical connections between networks, vitalism, atmospheres, rhythm analysis, and the concept of home.”—Kim Dovey, professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Melbourne“In this innovative and insightful study, Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm provide a rich reflection on the concept of territory. They introduce the idea of ‘territoriology’ as part of a wider exploration of space, materiality, and social life that lies at the cutting edge of contemporary theoretical debates.”—Matthew Gandy, professor of cultural and historical geography and fellow of King’s College at the University of CambridgeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. For a Science of Territories 2. Environments, Atmospheres, and Networks 3. The Multitemporality of Territorial Production 4. Morphogenesis and Animistic Moments 5. Domesticity and Animation 6. Territorializing Rhythms 7. Affording Play Conclusion Notes References Index
£69.70
University of Nebraska Press Assembling Moral Mobilities
Book SynopsisPresents novel ways of understanding how cycling and driving animate urban space, place, and society and investigates how cycling can learn from the ways in which driving has become invested with moral value.Trade Review“Weaving together insights from transport and mobilities research, urban planning, and ethnographic encounters gleaned on ride-alongs with cyclists in Canada and around the globe, Nick Scott takes us along on an enlightening journey in search of a good bike lane into the future.”—Phillip Vannini, author of Off the Grid: Re-Assembling Domestic Life“This book tackles the very important and timely topic of how, why, where, and for whom more sustainable bicycling practices and infrastructure are taking off, or are being blocked, in various U.S. and Canadian cities. . . . Nick Scott asks far ranging questions about good cities, the good life, and the common good. Drawing on creative ethnographic vignettes, these lively stories highlight the pressing need for more focus on equity, social justice, and expansion of biking infrastructures to diverse populations. Scott also contributes important theoretical concepts of moral assemblage, moral friction, and moral mobilities to the growing body of work on mobility justice.”—Mimi Sheller, author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of ExtremesTable of ContentsList of Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction: In Search of the Good Bike Lane 1. Domestic Mobilities: Local Tradition, Urban Place, and Good Roads 2. Industrial Mobilities: Road Engineering, Urban Planning, and Infrastructuring Efficiency 3. Civic Mobilities: Dedicated Bike Lanes, Cycling Social Movements, and Cycling Justice 4. Market Mobilities: Neoliberal Urbanism, Bike Share, and the Commodification of Cycling 5. Ecological Mobilities: Enacting Nature through Cycling Conclusion: Good Cycling Futures Notes References Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Arkography
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene's blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates the Kantian Island of Truth, and takes a house-tour through the Crystal Palace, the latter edifice an imagination grown out of Gunnael Jensson's sculpture Mappa Mundi Universalis. This travel story carries the arkographer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of todaynothing less than a codification of the taken-for-granted, a mapping of the no-man's-land between the five senses of the body and the sixth sense of culture. By constantly asking how we are made so obedient and predictable, the explorer searches for the present-day counterparts to the biblical ark, the chest that held the commandments and the rules of behavior that came with themhence the term arkography, a word hinting at an as-yet-unrecognized discipline. In Arkography Olsson strips bare the governing techniques of self-declared authorities, iTrade Review“This book is a significant contribution to what might be configured as the meeting points between academic geography, Western philosophy, critical social science, and arts-humanistic experimentation. It is the major reference point, the go-to source, for anyone wishing to familiarize themselves with the extraordinarily rich arc of Olsson’s thinking over the past four-plus decades.”—Christopher Philo, professor of geography at the University of Glasgow“Olsson continues to be an exciting thinker because he situates key problems within the field of geography in the broader contexts of Western humanism. . . . A fun, weird, inspiring, and engaging theoretical work. . . . It is a fascinating contribution that will likely be viewed as the capstone work of a major thinker.”—Keith Woodward, assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–MadisonTable of ContentsPreface: Who Is Who and What Is What? I: Red River Wake Enuma elish Gilgamesh Genesis Exodus Platopolis II: Imaginare Necesse Est Saussurean Bar The Republic Edging Island of Truth Mappa Mundi Universalis III: Crystal Palace Inside Basement Prophets’ Hall Ball Room Attic Penthouse IV: Archives Travelogue Notes Hidden references Alpha and Omega Given Index
£48.60
