New Books for Geographers: Summer 2025

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.
Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Joshua L. Conver, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.
The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy , by Eunji Kim (Princeton University Press 2025)
Another Magic Mountain: Kibong’oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920–2000, by Christoph Gradmann (Ohio University Press 2025)
Anywhere But Here: How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All, by Nicola Kelly (Elliott & Thompson 2025)
The Beef Taboo in China: Agriculture, Ethics, Sacrifice, by Vincent Goossaert (University of Hawaii Press 2025)
Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality, by Irene I. Vega (Princeton University Press 2025)
Building Culture: Sixteen Architects on How Museums Are Shaping the Future of Art, Architecture, and Public Space, by Julian Rose (Princeton Architectural Press 2024)
Climate Changed: Models and the Built World, by Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina (Columbia University Press 2025)
The Colony and the Company: Haiti after the Mississippi Bubble, by Malick W. Ghachem (Princeton University Press 2025)
Creating Culture, Performing Community: An Angahuan Wedding Story, by Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera (Indiana University Press 2025)
Debating Disaster Risk: Ethical Dilemmas in the Era of Climate Change, by Gonzalo Lizarralde, Lisa Bornstein, and Tapan Dhar (Columbia University Press 2025)
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois, by Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University Press 2025)
Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time, by Rasheedah Phillips (AK Press 2025)
Eco-Theory and Annihilation, by Evan Gottlieb (Bloomsbury Academic USA 2025)
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine, by Lisa Bhungalia (Stanford University Press 2023)
Elsdon Best, by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman and Frederico Delgado Rosa (Berghahn Books 2025)
Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community, by Aviad Moreno (Indiana University Press 2024)
Eyes of the Ocean, by Syaman Rapongan (Columbia University Press 2025)
Florida Water, by aja monet (Haymarket Books 2025)
GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS, by Ismael Chivite, Nicholas Giner, and Matt Artz (Esri Press 2025)
Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food, by Alyssa Paredes and Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio (University of Hawaii Press 2025)
Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City, by Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Ohio University Press 2024)
Making Each Other Laugh: Contemporary Arapaho Storytelling, by Andrew Cowell (The University of Oklahoma Press 2025)
Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015, by Kundai Manamere (Ohio University Press 2025)
Mapping the Deep: Innovation, Exploration, and the Dive of a Lifetime, by Dawn J. Wright (Esri Press 2024)
Migrations in Jordan: Reception Policies and Settlement Strategies, by Jalal Al Husseini , Valentina Napolitano , and Norig Neveu (Bloomsbury Academic USA 2024)
Mutants, Androids, and Aliens: On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, by James Tyner (University Press of Mississippi 2025)
Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics, by Helen Kapstein (West Virginia University Press 2025)
Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema, by Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz (Ohio University Press 2024)
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages, by Lorna Gibb (Princeton University Press 2025)
Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival, by Lisa S. Gardiner (Princeton University Press 2025)
Remembering Lahaina: What I Learned about Tourism, the ‘Āina, and Myself during Twelve Years on Maui , by Anthony Pignataro (University of Hawaii Press 2025)
Rethinking Island Methodologies, by Elaine Stratford, Godfrey Baldacchino, and Elizabeth McMahon (Bloomsbury Academic USA 2025)
A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters, by Kurt D. Fausch (Oregon State University Press 2025)
River Delta Futures: Endangered Communities in Audiovisual Media, by Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián and Angelos Theocharis (Bloomsbury Academic USA 2025)
Rojava in Focus: Critical Dialogues, by Cihad Hammy, Thomas Jeffrey Miley, and John Holloway (AK Press 2025)
Tactile Mapping: Cartography for People with Visual Impairments, by Vincent van Altena and Jakub Wabiński (Esri Press 2025)
Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives, by Allen Caroll (Esri Press 2025)
Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, by brian bean (Haymarket Books 2025)
Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India, by Siddhartha Deb (Haymarket Books 2024)
Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia, by Wolfram Dressler and Mary Mostafanezhad (University of Hawaii Press 2025)