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AAG Unveils New Disciplinary Data Dashboard

November 2, 2016

The AAG receives numerous requests for data related to geography and geographers. Often such requests come from members who are doing research on the discipline, or who are interested in knowing, for example, the proportion of women who hold the rank of associate professor or the average value of a graduate student assistantship.

Academic departments also frequently contact the AAG seeking data that will inform a program review, support an application to establish a new degree program, or help them make a case to prospective majors interested in career opportunities in geography. It is also common for the AAG to receive inquiries from journalists and the general public about the status of geographic literacy in K-12 schools or enrollment trends in higher education.

The AAG has been able to respond to these many requests for data thanks to its multiple ongoing data collection efforts involving members, departments, and special research surveys. Over the past decade this work has generated a considerable amount of data and content across the entire AAG website.

In an effort to consolidate and facilitate access to all of the disciplinary data collected by the AAG, a new AAG Disciplinary Data Dashboard was created on the AAG website at www.aag.org/disciplinarydata.

The Dashboard provides access to a diverse array of AAG-collected disciplinary data on gender and diversity, academic departments, geography careers, and AAG Annual Meetings, as well as archival information and materials available in the AAG Archives held at the Library of Congress. All of the data is searchable by source or by theme (e.g., geography in schools, gender, race and ethnicity, etc.).

In addition to raw data collected from AAG membership forms, academic department surveys, and other AAG research projects, the Dashboard includes original analytical reports featuring narrative summaries and data visualizations that provide quick overviews of major trends and patterns. Additional reports are currently being prepared by AAG staff and will be posted to the Dashboard in the coming months.

Visitors to the Dashboard will also find links to many third-party sources of disciplinary data produced by external organizations, as well as updated lists of journal articles and other research publications about geography as a discipline.

The AAG invites all members to explore the AAG Disciplinary Data Dashboard. We welcome your comments and suggestions at data [at] aag [dot] org.

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Act Now to Support the AAG’s AP GIS&T Proposal

November 2, 2016

The AAG’s proposal for a new Advanced Placement course in Geographic Information Science and Technology (AP GIS&T) continues to receive strong interest from high schools, colleges, and universities across the U.S.

To complete the proposal package for the College Board, the AAG needs to collect attestations of interest from at least 100 postsecondary institutions and 250 high schools. AAG members can lend their support to this effort in two important ways.

First, department chairs can add their program to the list of AP GIS&T supporters by completing an attestation at www.apgist.org.

As of November 1, AAG has received signed attestations from 93 departments, a number that includes dozens of major research universities and members of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. The attestation process provides evidence that the academic community views the proposed AP course to be equivalent to college-level instruction and that departments will consider offering credit to students who demonstrate proficiency on the AP exam.

The AAG especially needs additional attestations from undergraduate geography and GIS programs affiliated with institutions that rank among the College Board’s list of Top 200 AP-score receiving colleges and universities. Department chairs from these institutions are encouraged to express their interest in AP GIS&T by submitting an attestation for their program.

Second, the AAG invites all members to share the AP GIS&T proposal with high schools in their local community. So far 86 high schools have registered their interest in the AP GIS&T course.

With Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day celebrations just two weeks away, now is a great time to reach out to high schools and encourage them to register their interest in AP GIS&T. Schools that currently teach AP Human Geography, participate in the ConnectED program, or offer other GIS coursework are especially likely to benefit from the synergies created by the AP GIS&T course. AAG members are welcome to email or print this flyer summarizing the content and benefits of AP GIS&T for high schools.

Questions about the AP GIS&T proposal and attestation process may be sent to Dr. Michael Solem, AAG Deputy Director for Research and Education, at msolem [at] aag [dot] org.

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David Slater

David Slater, Emeritus Professor of Political Geography at Loughborough University, UK, who was a leading critical development geographer and known for his work on Latin America, passed away on October 20, 2016.

Slater studied for a bachelor’s degree in geography at Durham University in the mid-1960s which was when he first became interested in geopolitics, seeking to understand international relations in a spatial context. He went on to the London School of Economics, where he completed a doctorate in geography in 1972.

His long career saw him teach at universities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North American and Europe. He was based at CEDLA (the Interuniversity Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation) in The Netherlands for a number of years before moving to the Department of Geography at Loughborough University as Professor of Political Geography from 1994 to 2011. During that time he also served as the editor of Political Geography (1999-2004). In 2011 he became Emeritus Professor at Loughborough University and was also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London.

During the 1970s Slater emerged as a distinctive voice in radical development geography, critiquing mainstream development concepts, models and theories. He used a Marxist framework to explain the spatial characteristics of development, specifically how underdevelopment in the ‘Third World’ was shaped and perpetuated by relationships with the West. His pair of papers published in Antipode on “Geography and Underdevelopment” (1973 and 1977) were particularly influential and remain widely cited to this day. He wrote them while working in Tanzania at the University of Dar Es Salaam, during which time he was inspired by scholars from Africa, Asia and Latin America who were explaining inequality and underdevelopment in terms of colonial exploitation, political domination and dependency.

During the 1980s, Slater focused much of his attention on Latin America. Among his significant publications during that period was the book Territory and State Power in Latin America: The Peruvian Case (Palgrave Macmillan 1989) which examined the central spatial tendencies of capitalist development and state-society relations in Peru between 1914 and 1984, but with wider applicability to other countries in the region. He also edited Social Movements and Political Change in Latin America (CEDLA 1985), a compilation of papers from a CEDLA workshop held in 1983 on the topic of new social movements and the state in Latin America.

It is difficult to select examples from someone who had such a prolific writing output and published consistently in leading journals of geography, development studies, and political science. Certainly worthy of mention and exemplifying one of the major themes in his work is the article “On the borders of social theory: learning from other regions” (Environment and Planning D 1992) which was a criticism of Western ethnocentrism. He argued that ‘First World’ geographers should examine the West’s relationship with the ‘Third World’ in order to appreciate their own societies. His argument about ‘learning from other regions’ was quite influential as human geography began to grapple with postcolonial thought and remains very relevant today.

A number of Slater’s publications examined US power. The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power (Wiley-Blackwell 1999), jointly edited with Loughborough University colleague Peter Taylor, brought together studies of Americanization and American imperialism to assess how far the twentieth century can be seen as the ‘American Century.’ Following this, his much lauded book, entitled Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial: Rethinking North-South Relations (Wiley-Blackwell 2004), focused onUS-Latin American encounters and theorized an alternative postcolonial perspective for understanding contemporary political and economic globalization.

Over many decades, Slater’s work consistently challenged Western hegemony. His critical analyses of North-South relations exposed long-standing, ongoing and acute asymmetries of power and geopolitical injustice. While he was a provocative voice, he was also very highly regarded as a scholar. His complex theoretical work was deftly written and grounded in real examples. He was an inspiration to many students who were drawn to his critical perspectives on development studies and political geography. He will be fondly remembered by many colleagues at Loughborough University and beyond.

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: October 2016

October 15, 2016

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of Books, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

October 2016

Contextualizing Disaster by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

Crossing Boundaries For Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon by Stephen G. Perz (Lexington Books 2016)

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment Latin America in the U.S. Imagination by John Patrick Leary (University of Virginia Press 2016)

Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics by Kieran Connell and Mathew Hilton (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press 2016)

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration: Core Issues and Emerging Trends by Alex Sager (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860 by Gergely Baics (Princeton University Press 2016)

Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Freshener (University of Nebraska Press 2011)

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth: Following nature’s way by Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Søren Nors Nielsen, Federico M. Pulselli, Daniel A. Fiscus and Simone Bastianoni (Routledge 2015)

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 by Ludger Muller-Wille [ed.] William Barr [translator] (University of Toronto Press 2016)

Getting to Know Web GIS, 2nd Edition by Pinde Fu (ESRI Press 2016)

GIS Technology Applications in Environmental and Earth Sciences by Bai Tian (CRC Press 2017)

Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (eds.) (Columbia University Press 2016)

Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment by Sandra Rebok (University of Virginia Press 2014)

In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and Its Impact in Eastern Europe by Doubravka Olšáková (ed.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods by Laura Zanotti (University of Arizona Press 2016)

Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India by Llerena Guiu Searle (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space by Nicolas Howe (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape by Stuart A. Marks (Bergahn Books 2016)

The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century by Theresa Enright (MIT Press 2016)

Moroccan Dreams: Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy by Claudio Minca and Lauren Wagner (I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 2016)

Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines: Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession by Arnisson Andre Ortega (Lexington Books 2016)

Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 by Charles S. Maier (Harvard University Press 2016)

Place Names of Wisconsin by Edward Callary (University of Wisconsin Press 2016)

Population Health Intervention Research by Daniel W. Harrington, Sara McLafferty, and Susan J. Elliott (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt by Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America by John W. Frazier, Eugene L. Tettey-Fio, and Norah F. Henry (eds.) (Sony Press 2016)

Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading by Leigh Raymond (MIT Press 2016)

The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier by Rebecca J. Kinney (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Settlements at the Edge: Remote Human Settlements in Developed Nations by Andrew Taylor, Dean B. Carson, Prescott C. Ensign, Lee Huskey, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Gertrude Saxinger (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016)

Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Devices, Desires, Dissent by Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson & Johannes Stripple (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures by Jon Lang and Nancy Marshall (Routledge 2017)

Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll (Duke University Press 2016)

Lawrence S. Hamilton

Larry Hamilton, emeritus professor of natural resources at Cornell University, who played a leading role in the worldwide conservation of mountain areas, passed away on October 6, 2016, at the age of 91.

Lawrence Stanley Hamilton was born in Toronto in 1925. He couldn’t wait to get out of the city and started working in logging camps in the North Woods during the summers while he was still a teenager. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. Both his early connection to forests and his exposure to the horrors of war went on to shape the rest of his life.

After the war Hamilton enrolled at the University of Toronto to study forestry while also working as Zone Forester in Ontario. For postgraduate studies he moved to the College of Forestry at Syracuse University, completing his master’s degree in 1950 with a dissertation entitled “An economic analysis of the cutting of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) in small woodlots in the vicinity of Syracuse.” This was followed by a doctorate in natural resource policy at the University of Michigan; his dissertation, completed in 1962, was entitled “An analysis of New York State’s Forest Practice Act.”

Hamilton joined the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University in 1951 and stayed there for 30 years before becoming professor emeritus. He was an exceptional educator, advisor, and pioneer of courses in forest ecology, watershed studies, interdisciplinary collaboration, and international resource issues. In the early 1970s, he produced one of the first documentations of tropical rainforest deforestation (Venezuela) and mangrove destruction (Trinidad).

In 1980 he moved to Hawaii and spent the next 13 years as a Senior Fellow in the Environment and Policy Institute at the East-West Center, an institution which aims to promote technological and cultural interchange between people in the United States, Asia and the Pacific region. He traveled all over the region including Thailand, Western Samoa, Nepal, Indonesia, and Australia doing pioneering education in forest hydrology and tropical forestry, convening workshops and authoring hundreds of applied conservation publications.

While in Asia Hamilton became interested in mountains, recognizing them as unique and very delicate ecosystems, and suggesting that conservation efforts that work in many other environments can be devastating for mountains.

Since the 1970s he had been a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (subsequently known as the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)), but it was during the 1980s that he began to draw the Commission’s attention to mountains.

Hamilton and a small group of fellow scientists launched a concerted call for mountain conservation, publishing “The State of the World’s Mountains: A Global Report.” They took their message to a wider audience as “An Appeal for the Mountains,” which was presented to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Earth Summit) and became the basis for the mountain chapter in Agenda 21. This effort, and the ensuing awareness of mountain ecology, is the work of which Hamilton said he was most proud.

Over the next 25 years, under his leadership, the mountain theme became an important element of the WCPA’s work and he built a strong global network of mountain enthusiasts and experts. He brought them together in numerous WCPA mountain workshops including Hawaii (1991), Australia (1995), Canada (1996) and South Africa (2003).

On the ground he provided guidance and advice to mountain protected areas including parks and reserves in Australia, Bhutan, Canada, Ecuador, USA and Nepal. He championed tropical montane cloud forests, corridors of ecological connectivity, trans-border cooperation for conservation and peace, understanding of mountains as water towers, and the spiritual/cultural values of mountains.

His formidable paper legacy is to be found in almost 400 publications including: IUCN guidelines on Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Co-operation (2001) and Planning and Managing Mountain Protected Areas (2004); and Managing Mountain Protected Areas: Challenges and Responses for the 21st Century (2004). He made special mountain contributions to PARKS (1996), the IUCN Bulletin (2002), and a World Heritage publication (2002). From 1992 until 2015, he also edited 89 editions of the quarterly newsletter Mountain Protected Areas Update.

For his work Hamilton received the New York State Conservation Council’s Forest Conservationist of the Year award (1969); the Environmental Achiever Award from the UN Environment Program (1987); the IUCN/WCPA Packard International Parks Merit Award (2003); Hawai’i University’s Distinguished Scientist award for work on Cloud Forest Conservation (2004); the Gold Medal for Mountain Conservation Leadership from the King Albert I Memorial Foundation in Switzerland (2004); and Honorary IUCN Membership (2008).

In 1993 Hamilton and his wife moved to Vermont to be near family. They set up home in the small rural community of Charlotte where they loved the natural surroundings and the four seasons. They also liked the sense of neighborliness and civic participation, and Hamilton was proud to be a local tree warden. He also served for over two decades as a trustee of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Vermont where he shared his expertise through many local conservation initiatives. Just two days before his death, he was delighted to learn that they named the trail in the local TNC forest preserve the “Hamilton Trail.”

As well as the local engagement, bigger conservation issues continued to concern him. For example, in 2011 he travelled to Washington, DC to protest at the White House against the Tar Sands Pipeline Initiative. Beyond his conservation activism, he was also a pacifist and was an active member of Veterans for Peace.

Lawrence Hamilton’s life was grounded in a love of nature. He said, “If I can be responsible for saving one little chunk, I will have had a successful life.” In reality, his life’s work ensured the protection of mountain areas passing through whole continents, and their preservation as biological and cultural treasures for our future generations. He will be remembered for his vision, commitment, enthusiasm and youthful energy. Although not a geographer per se, his academic work and practical action was an inspiration to many, including members of the AAG’s Mountain Geography Specialty Group.

Larry is survived by his wife of 36 years, Linda; children Bruce, Anne and Lynne; as well as seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Main sources:
New York Times obituary, October 2016
Obituary on IUCN website, October 2016
Blog by Gillian Randall, November 2011

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Ary J. Lamme III

Ary Lamme, a cultural and historical geographer and professor emeritus at the University of Florida, passed away in September 2016 at the age of 76.

Ary Johannes Lamme III was born in New York on June 30, 1940. His grandfather, Ary Johannes Lamme Sr. had emigrated from Holland in the late nineteenth century and settled in New York.

By the time he was a small boy, the family had moved to Westminster in western Maryland, although his father still worked in New York and commuted home at weekends. From there the family had regular outings to the battlefields at Gettysburg and Lamme remembered enjoying the countryside, the war stories, and having picnics together. This was perhaps the gestation of a lifelong interest in historic landscapes, and Gettysburg would be a central example in one of his major works later in his professional life.

At McDonogh School on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, Lamme enjoyed mathematics and the social sciences. He then went on to Principia College, Illinois, for undergraduate studies, graduating in 1962. He later acknowledged the role of particular geography, history and English professors there who enabled him to develop and use important scholarly tools.

Next Lamme moved to the University of Illinois for a master’s degree in geography, graduating in 1965. Military service then intervened and he served as an instructor squadron commander in the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam.

After an unexpected release from the military, one of his former professors from Illinois enabled him to enter Syracuse University for a doctorate. There he was particularly influenced by David Sopher and Donald Meinig and their work on historic and cultural landscapes. His dissertation, completed in 1968, was entitled “The Spatial and Ecological Characteristics of the Diffusion of Christian Science in the United States: 1875-1910.”

His first teaching position was at the State University of New York at Cortland before moving to the University of Florida at Gainesville in the early 1970s, where he stayed for over three decades.

Lamme was interested in different aspects of cultural and historical geography, as reflected in his publications which cover topics including the historical development and spatial distribution of religious groups, the cultural landscape of the Amish homelands, the sense of vernacular regional identity in Florida, and a comparison of the physical characteristics of spaces where people were enslaved and where they were freed.

One of his most noted publications was the book “America’s Historic Landscapes: Community Power and the Preservation of Four National Historic Sites” (1990) which explored historic landscapes and how they acquire meaning. He used four case studies – St Augustine in Florida, Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia, Sackets Harbor in New York, and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania – to explore the community power issues involved in landscape preservation.

Lamme was a long-time member of the American Association of Geographers and recognized for 50 years of continuous membership in 2014. He was also involved in the Southeast Division (SEDAAG) and had presented his work at the Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference.

Ary Lamme will be remembered fondly by many former colleagues. He leaves behind his wife, Sandra, and two adult children, Laurel and Ary Johannes IV.

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Sally E. Eden

Sally Eden, professor of Human Geography at the University of Hull, UK, whose research explored issues of environmental perception, sustainable food production and consumption, passed away peacefully in September 2016 after a period of illness.

Sally E. Eden was born in 1967. She studied for a bachelor’s degree at the University of Durham followed by a doctorate at the University of Leeds.

Her first academic posts were at the University of Bristol and Middlesex University where she taught geography and environmental studies before joining the Department of Geography at the University of Hull in 1998 where she served for the last 18 years.

Eden’s research explored how people relate to the environment through consumption, leisure, knowledge and policy.

One strand of work investigated how nongovernmental organizations use and communicate environmental information, and how environmental science is used to influence policy and consumption. For this she focused on water environments, researching how river restoration is designed and justified and how laypeople get involved with and make sense of river management in the UK.

Another area of research was how ideas of sustainable consumption, environmentally friendly products and green lifestyles are constructed, legitimated, sold, understood and put into practice (or not). She explored these issues through case studies such as the environmental certification of organic food, sustainably farmed fish and well managed forests.

From 2013-15 she was Co-Investigator on a major project funded jointly by the UK Research Councils called Digital Economy: Food Trust. The goal was to explore how digital tools can promote more sustainable production and consumption of food through connecting producers and consumers. It involved the creation of three prototype apps – ‘Food Cloud’, ‘FoodCrowd’ and ‘Shopstamp.’ One of these, for example, enabled shoppers to scan QR codes on food products to access information about the farm where the item was produced.

Eden’s work was widely published in leading journals of geography, environment and rural studies. Sadly she passed away before publication of her book, Environmental Publics (Routledge, December 2016). This volume explores how ordinary people think about the environment as they go about their daily lives; how they engage with environmental issues in different contexts of work, leisure and home; and whether thinking about the environment make them do things differently.

Eden was a member of the AAG and a regular attendee at the Annual Meetings. She was also one of the Section Editors for the AAG’s The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (Wiley, 2017). She was responsible for the “Environmental Policy, Management, and Governance” section, and also wrote three entries for the encyclopedia: Environmental Science, Environmental Restoration, and Environmental Issues and Public Understanding (the latter with Hilary Geoghegan). The AAG team will remember her as an excellent editor as well as a lovely person with whom to work. Her colleagues at the University of Hull and beyond will miss her greatly.

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: September 2016

September 15, 2016

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

October 2016

Contextualizing Disaster by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

Crossing Boundaries For Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon by Stephen G. Perz (Lexington Books 2016)

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment Latin America in the U.S. Imagination by John Patrick Leary (University of Virginia Press 2016)

Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics by Kieran Connell and Mathew Hilton (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press 2016)

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration: Core Issues and Emerging Trends by Alex Sager (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860 by Gergely Baics (Princeton University Press 2016)

Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Freshener (University of Nebraska Press 2011)

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 by Ludger Muller-Wille [ed.] William Barr [translator] (University of Toronto Press 2016)

Getting to Know Web GIS, 2nd Edition by Pinde Fu (ESRI Press 2016)

GIS Technology Applications in Environmental and Earth Sciences by Bai Tian (CRC Press 2017)

Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (eds.) (Columbia University Press 2016)

Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment by Sandra Rebok (University of Virginia Press 2014)

In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and Its Impact in Eastern Europe by Doubravka Olšáková (ed.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods by Laura Zanotti (University of Arizona Press 2016)

Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India by Llerena Guiu Searle (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space by Nicolas Howe (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape by Stuart A. Marks (Bergahn Books 2016)

The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century by Theresa Enright (MIT Press 2016)

Moroccan Dreams: Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy by Claudio Minca and Lauren Wagner (I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 2016)

Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines: Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession by Arnisson Andre Ortega (Lexington Books 2016)

Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 by Charles S. Maier (Harvard University Press 2016)

Place Names of Wisconsin by Edward Callary (University of Wisconsin Press 2016)

Population Health Intervention Research by Daniel W. Harrington, Sara McLafferty, and Susan J. Elliott (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt by Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America by John W. Frazier, Eugene L. Tettey-Fio, and Norah F. Henry (eds.) (Sony Press 2016)

Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading by Leigh Raymond (MIT Press 2016)

The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier by Rebecca J. Kinney (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Devices, Desires, Dissent by Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson & Johannes Stripple (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures by Jon Lang and Nancy Marshall (Routledge 2017)

Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll (Duke University Press 2016)

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AAG Launches New Undergraduate Student Affinity Group

September 14, 2016

The American Association of Geographers will launch a new affinity group specifically for undergraduate students. The Undergraduate Student Affinity Group (USAG) will be an international community of students studying geography, offering opportunities to network and socialize, get advice on graduate study and careers, and take part in academic events.

USAG will work closely with the Graduate Student Affinity Group (GSAG) to plan and develop joint events and workshops that are run by students for students. These may include mentoring and advice on applying to grad school.

USAG membership is open to undergraduate students at a college or university anywhere in the world who are studying geography or a closely related subject (e.g., environmental studies, urban and regional planning, GIScience, geoscience, global studies, or social science education), and are members of the AAG—joining AAG and USAG can happen simultaneously.

Undergraduate students can join the AAG for just $38 and receive full membership benefits including access to scholarly journals and publications, exclusive access to the Jobs in Geography listings, participation in the knowledge communities, and reduced rates for Annual Meeting and other event registration. They can join USAG for an additional $1.

We are also looking for a few students to form the inaugural board of USAG and shape the future of this group. Nominations are welcome throughout the fall and winter, and officers will be selected during the first Business Meeting of USAG held during the AAG Annual Meeting in Boston, April 5-9, 2017. Please let us know if you know particularly enthusiastic students in their sophomore or junior years who might be keen to serve as an officer of this group for two years.

For further information please visit www.aag.org/usag or contact Jenny Lunn (jlunn [at] aag [dot] org).

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AAG Welcomes Julio Arguello Jr. as Social Media and Website Content Manager

September 9, 2016

The AAG is pleased to announce that Julio Arguello, Jr. has joined the association as the Social Media and Website Content Manager at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Julio has more than 15 years of digital communications, IT, membership and publications management experience in the nonprofit sector. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Towson State University.

Julio previously worked for the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) where he was the Digital Communications Manager in charge of online communications and social media strategies, including AMCHP’s website. Prior to that position, Julio served as the organization’s Publications & Member Services Manager.

Julio will collaborate with AAG’s communications group to oversee AAG’s engagement across its social media communities, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. He will monitor media channels, post information, interact with users, and curate and write web content. He will also contribute to organizing project-related campaigns.

In his free time, Julio enjoys playing tennis, taking long walks and exploring Washington, D.C., watching films, and the theater and opera.

Julio Arguello Jr., Social Media and Website Content Manager