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 Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.
The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities by Peter S. Alagona (University of California Press, 2022)
Across Iceland: With Illustrations and Maps, and an Appendix on the Plants Collected by William Bisiker (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Airbnb, Short-Term Rentals and the Future of Housing by Lily M. Hoffman and Barbara Schmitter Heisler (Routledge, 2021)
All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (Penguin Random House, 2021)
American Geography: A Reckoning with a Dream by Matt Black (Thames & Hudson, 2021)
The Anthropocene Unconscious by Mark Bould (Verso Books, 2021)
The Authorship of Place: A Cultural Geography of the New Chinese Cinemas by Dennis Lo (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change by Thomas A. Kerns, Kathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University Press, 2021)
Beautyscapes: Mapping cosmetic surgery tourism by Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones, & David Bell (Manchester UP, 2021)
A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development by Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 by Jeannie N. Shinozuka (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness by Michael R. Dove (Yale University Press, 2021)
Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier by Adam Saltsman (Syracuse University Press, 2022)
Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow by Klaus Dodds (Penguin, 2021)
Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond by Ana Muñiz (University of California Press, 2022)
Bread & Water by dee Hobsbawn-Smith (NYU Press, 2021)
Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic by editors Wilfrid Greaves & P. Whitney Lackenbauer (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Canada’s Past and Future in Latin America by Pablo Heidrich and Laura Macdonald (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
Canyon, Mountain, Cloud: Absence and Longing in American Parks by Tyra A. Olstad (Oregon State University Press, 2021)
Capitalism and The Sea by Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás (Verso Books, 2021)
Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Liam Campling & Alejandro Colás (Verso Books, 2021)
A Carceral Ecology: Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina by Ryan C. Edwards (University of California Press, 2021)
Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, & Scott J. LaCombe (Oxford UP, 2021)
Cities of Power: the Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global by Göran Therborn (Penguin Random House, 2021)
Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit by Peter Gumbel (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
City Living by Quill R Kukla (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa: 15,000 Years of Crises, Setbacks, and Adaptation by William R. Thompson and Leila Zakhirova (Routledge, 2021)
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin (Verso Books, 2021)
Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene by Nancy Langston (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
The Climate Coup by Mark Alizart (Polity Press, 2021)
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith by Philip Jenkins (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement by editors Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, &Martin Ottovay Jørgensen (Haymarket Books, 2021)
The Coldest Coast: The 1873 Leigh Smith Expedition to Svalbard in the Diaries and Photographs of Herbert Chermside by editors P. J. Capelotti, (illu.) Grenna Museum (Springer International, 2021)
Colossus: The Anatomy of Delhi by Sanjoy Chakravorty & Neelanjan Sircar (Cambridge UP, 2021)
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England by Mary Sponberg Pedley (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
The Commerce of Geography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England by Mary Sponberg Pedley (Chicaco UP, 2021)
Confederate Exodus: Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil by Alan Marcus (University of Nebraska Press, 2021)
Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs (2021) by B McFarland (Palgrave, 2021)
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance by by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project with a foreword by Ananya Roy & Chris Carlsson. (PM Press, 2021)
Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Crossing the Divide by Robert E.B. Lucas (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place by Rodriguez Castro, Laura (Palgrave, 2021)
Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene (2021) by M Parsons, K Fisher and RP Crease (Palgrave, 2021)
Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos by Jem Bendell, Rupert Read (Polity Press, 2021)
Delivering Water and Power: GIS for Utilities by Pat Hohl & Keith Mann (ESRI Press, 2021)
The Diasporic Condition by Ghassan Hage (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection by editors André Jansson & Paul C. Adams (Oxford UP, 2021)
Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture by Adam M. Romero (University of California Press, 2021)
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Feminist City by Leslie Kern (Verso Books, 2021)
Feminist Geographies Unbound by Gokariksel, B., Hawkins, M., Neubert, C. & Smith, S. (West Virginia University Press, 2021)
Freedom of the Border by Paul Scheffer (Polity Press, 2021)
From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way by Michael Bond (Harvard UP (Belknap Press), 2021)
Geographic Citizen Science Design by Artemis Skarlatidou, Muki Haklay (UCL Press, 2021)
Geographies of India by George Duncan (Repro Books, 2021)
A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors by Mikhail S. Blinnikov (Guilford Press, 2021)
A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors (2nd ed) by Mikhail Blinnikov (Guilford Press, 2021)
Global Health and the Villiage by Sarah Rudrum (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
Global Production Networks and Rural Development: Southeast Asia as a Fruit Supplier to China by editors Bill Pritchard (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities by Matthew E. Kahn (University of California Press, 2022)
Governing Migration Beyond the State by Andrew Geddes (OUP, 2021)
The Great Adaptation by Romain Felli (Verso Books, 2021)
Ground Sea: Photography and the Right to Be Reborn by Hilde Van Gelder (Cornell University Press, 2021)
Home: 100 Poems by Christian Wiman (Yale University Press, 2021)
How Green Became Good by Hillary Angelo (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich by Rowland Atkinson (Verso Books, 2021)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to fight a world on fire by Andreas Malm (Verso, 2021)
How to Build a Global City by Michelle Acuto (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Imagined Geographies: The Maritime Silk Roads in World History, 100–1800 by Geoffrey C. Gunn (Hong Kong University Press, 2021)
Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest by Britt E. Halverson, Joshua O. Reno (University of California Press, 2022)
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest by Robert T. Boyd (Oregon State University Press, 2021)
Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea M. Leverentz (University of California Press, 2022)
ntra-Africa Migrations: Reimagining Borders and Migration Management by Inocent Moyo, Jussi P Laine, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi (Routledge, 2021)
Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean by Megan A. Carney (University of California Press, 2021)
Killer Cities by Nigel Thrift (Sage Publishing, 2021)
Krakow: An Ecobiography by editors Adam Izdebski & Rafał Szmytka (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank by Sanford M Jacoby (Princeton University Press, 2021)
Land Fictions by Asher Ghertner and Robert Lake (Cornell Press, 2021)
Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America by Sebastian Mazzuca (Yale UP, 2021)
Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces by Cecily Raynor (Bucknell UP, 2021)
Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth by Nicholas Crane (Penguin Books, 2021)
Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas Crane (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity by Caren Irr (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret (Polity Press, 2021)
Living Off-grid in Wales: Eco-Villages in Policy and Practice by Elaine Forde (University of Wales Press, 2021)
Living with Pandemics: Places, People and Policy by editors John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Aksel Ersoy, & Louise Reardon (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton (Ebury, 2021)
Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity by Robert Grumet (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
Mapping Nature Across North America by editors Kathleen A. Brosnan & James R. Akerman (Chicago UP, *2021)
Mapping Nature across the Americas by Kathleen A. Brosnan, James R. Akerman (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom by Amanda Smith (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Migration Studies and Colonialism by Lucy Mayblin, Joe Turner (Polity Press, 2021)
Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua by Camellia Webb-Gannon (University of Hawaii Press, 2021)
Move: The Forces Uprooting Us by Parag Khanna (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure by Rashmi Sadana (University of California Press, 2021)
The Nature of Space by Milton Santos (Duke University Press, 2021)
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Open Hand, Closed Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State by Kathryn Abrams (University of California Press, 2022)
Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands by John D. Leshy (Yale University Press, 2021)
Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography by Ali Shobeiri (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Planetary Politics: A Manifesto by Lorenzo Marsili (Polity Press, 2021)
Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe by editors Eszter Krasznai Kovacs (OpenBook, 2021)
The Politics of Fear in South Sudan Generating Chaos, Creating Conflict by Daniel Akech Thiong (ZED, 2021)
The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Post Growth: Life after Capitalism by Tim Jackson (Polity Press, 2021)
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall (Elliot & Thompson, 2021)
Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism by Andrew Zitcer (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Protecting the Places We Love: Conservation Strategies for Entrusted Lands and Parks by Breece Robertson (ESRI Press, 2021)
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram (U Washington Press, 2021)
The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements by Kimberley Kinder (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Reimagining Sustainable Cities by Stephen M. Wheeler, Christina D. Rosan (University of California Press, 2021)
Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan by Chia-rong Wu (Cambria Press, 2021)
Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo’olelo, Aloha ‘Āina, and Ea by Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate by Kenneth H. Kolb (University of California Press, 2021)
The Return of Nature by John Bellamy Foster (NYU Press, 2021)
Sapphos Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle by Marina Karides (SUNY Press, 2021)
Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care by Elan Abrell (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Gope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis by David Hugill (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Seven Ethics Against Capitalism: Towards a Planetary Commons by Oli Mould (Polity Press, 2021)
Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question by Tom Slater (University of California Press, 2021)
Shaking Up the CityIgnorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question by Tom Slater (University of California Press, 2021)
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It’s a Good Thing Updated Edition by Danny Dorling (Yale University Press, 2021)
The Spacious World by Ricardo Padrón (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Sounding Jewish in Berlin by Phil Alexander (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Spatial Webs: Mapping Anatolian Pasts for Research and the Public by Christopher H. Roosevelt (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Spatializing Authoritarianism by Natalie Koch (Syracuse University Press, 2022)
Streetlife by Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson, and Terence Wesley-Smith (University of Hawaii Press, 2021)
Tanzania’s Informal Economy: The Micro-politics of Street Vending by Alexis Malefakis (ZED, 2021)
Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia–Australia Migration and Everyday Time by Shanthi Robertson (Bristol University press, 2022)
Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out) by Joseph Margulies (Yale University Press, 2021)
The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time by Allan Stoekl (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Time For Socialism by Thomas Picketty (Yale University Press, 2021)
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers by Bruce Jones (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia by Barak Kalir, Malini Sur (Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
Unsettling Utopia The Making and Unmaking of French India (June 2021 by Jessica Namakkal (Columbia University Press, 2021)
The Urban Planning Imagination: A Critical International Introduction by Nicholas A. Phelps (Polity Press, 2021)
Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure by Hatim El-Hibri (Duke UP, 2021)
Voluminous States by Franck Billé (Duke University Press, 2021)
Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia by Sarah T. Hines (University of California Press, 2021)
Watershed Attending to Body and Earth in Distress by Ranae Lenor Hanson (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
White Borders by Reece Jones (Penguin Random House, 2021)
A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet by Jo Handelsman (Yale University Press, 2021)
The Yellow River by Ruth Mostern (Yale University Press, 2021)
You Better Go See Geri: An Odawa Elder’s Life of Recovery and Resilience by Frances ‘Geri’ Roossien, Andrea Riley Mukavetz (Oregon State University Press, 2021)
