On the new episode of @NewBooksGeog, @adribuller talks to Stentor Danielson about her forthcoming book, The Value of a Whale - listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/how-to-vβ¦
The Value of a Whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value.
Available to pre-order now!
Images of lorries queued at #Dover have been used to argue that severing ties with the EU was the best/worst thing for the UK.
In his new book, @PhilHubbard1 considers the past, present and future of this corner of England, in the wake of #Brexit: manchesteruniversitypress.coβ¦
New book alert! On #maps & history @NewBooksEEuro@NewBooksRussia, I interviewed Dr. Catherine Gibson (U Tartu) on "Geographies of Nationhood, Cartography, Science & Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic" (@OUPHistory, 2022). Congrats! Check it out. ποΈπnewbooksnetwork.com/geographβ¦π
Based participant observation, visual & media analysis, interviews and archival work, BLACK in PLACE (@uncpressblog) shows how blackness has become a prized aesthetic that often excludes Black residents in #WashingtonDC. @_blusummers joins @alizearican βοΈ
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What is an art school?
Bridging geography, sociology, and art history, ART SCHOOLS and PLACE (@RLPGBooks) thinks through the status of art schools and arts education in the contemporary world. Tune in as @silviejacobi joins @DrDaveOBrien on the podcastπ
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Curious about data, maps and humanitarianism? I had a fascinating conversation with @DougSpecht about the powerful new volume "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping" for @NewBooksNetwork.
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MAPPING CRISIS (@UoLPress) offers critical perspectives on the role of mapping people, knowledges, and data in humanitarian work and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Editor @DougSpecht joins @TimeTravelAllie βοΈ
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Ranging from Indiaβs Northwest Frontier to the TransJordan, South Africa and Apache reservations, RULING the SAVAGE PERIPHERY (@Harvard_Press) documents the startling breadth of frontier governmentality and its tragic legacy. Benjamin D Hopkins joins usπ
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What's the relationship between race, technology & sound? How did Latin Americans in the 19th & early 20th centuries think about, and importantly, hear, race? @alebronf interviews Dylon Robbins, author of AUDIBLE GEOGRAPHIES in LATIN AMERICA (@Palgrave)π
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Covering a 1,500-year sweep of history, THE SWAHILI WORLD (@RoutledgeHist) tells a fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the eastern coast of Africa. The editors fill us in βοΈ
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.@Ahmed_Yaqoub has Alexis Wick on the podcast to discuss THE RED SEA in SEARCH of LOST SPACE (@ucpress), a critical, conceptual history of the Sea in which the Sea serves as a vital element of the modern philosophy of history. Give their convo a listenπ
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GOING NOWHERE FAST (@OUPAcademic) brings together more than a decadeβs worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history. Learn more as Sabina Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons discuss their book w/@dinokadich on the podcastπ
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