New Books for Geographers

New Books: August 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.

August 2016

Access, Property and American Urban Space by M. Gordon Brown (Routledge 2016)

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores (University Press of Kansas 2016)

Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground by Lisa Kemmerer (ed.) (Routledge 2016)

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, Sixth Edition by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield 2017)

The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by David Kazanjian (Duke University Press 2016)

Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar by Catherine A. Corson (Yale University Press 2016)

A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools by Nicole Nguyen (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel, Rebel by Theodore G. Ammon (ed.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2016)

Disasters and Social Resilience: A Bioecological Approach by Helen J. Boon, Alison Cottrell and David King (Routledge 2016)

Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field by Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser and Don Manson (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2016)

Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early

Twentieth Centuries by Johnathan Andrew Farris (Hong Kong University Press 2016)

Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman (Duke University Press 2016)

The Handbook of Neoliberalism by Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (Transaction Publishers 2012 [2016])

An Introduction to Clouds: From the Microscale to Climate by Fabian Mahrt, Felix Lüönd, and Ulrike Lohmann (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, Third Edition by John Krygier and Denis Wood (The Guilford Press 2016)

Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 by Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá by James Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick Hanselmann and Dominque Rissolo (University Press of Florida 2016)

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa by Bernhard Gissibl (Berghahn Press 2016)

Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri (Duke University Press 2016)

Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains by Kevin Z. Sweeney (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Reset Modernity! By Bruno Latour (ed.) (MIT Press 2016)

Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America by René Davids (ed.) (University Press of Florida 2016)

Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn? by Simon Marvin, Andres Luque-Ayala and Colin McFarlane (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society by Carolyn Merchant (Yale University Press 2016)

State and Politics: Deleuze and Guatarri on Marx by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (MIT Press 2016)

Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn (eds.) (Berghahn 2016 [2014])

Transnational Geographers in the United States: Navigating Autobiogeographies in a Global Age by Alan P. Marcus (ed.) (Lexington Books 2016)

Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman (Counterpoint Press 2016)

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The Chinatown Atlas

The Chinatown Atlas website tells the story of the development of Boston’s Chinatown (in the changing context of immigration and the physical and social growth of Boston and the region). It uses a combination of text, photo, maps, and stories to track the complexity of the changes.

Boston’s Chinatown is one of the few middle-sized Chinatowns that have survived from the Chinese Exclusion Act era. Today it is the economic, social and cultural center for working-class Chinese in the metropolitan area (mostly Cantonese and Fujianese speaking immigrants). It also serves East and Southeast Asian population and tourists.

In a city known for its ethnic neighborhoods, Chinatown was always different. It was not where most Chinese lived. It was established to serve the laundrymen who lived in isolation in other neighborhoods and industrial towns. They came into Boston on Sundays to socialize in the company of their countrymen. Even as laundries gave way to restaurants and immigration laws changed, Chinatown remains until today the center of social life and provided the necessary goods and services for working class Chinese.

The Chinese were not welcome in the city and numerous efforts were made to remove them. Early efforts were street widenings, the location of the Elevated Railway, the mass arrest of suspected illegal immigrants and the growth of the garment industry. As the city grew, highway construction, the expansion of the Tufts Medical Center and urban renewal posed continuous threats to the viability of the community. More recently, the resurgence of downtown Boston has increased rents and land prices making it difficult for community businesses and low-income renters to stay in the area.

However, the community survived earlier threats through perseverance and ingenuity. Institutions such as family associations and language schools were founded to form the backbone of the community. It learned to protest and lobby against complete urban removal that had diminished or destroyed Chinatowns in cities like St. Louis or Washington, DC. At the same time, the city and the state became more committed to neighborhood concerns and public participation. As a result, the community-owned affordable housing and public facilities built with public help has enabled most low-income residents to stay.

The organization of the website. The components are the eras, essays about specific topics (e.g. garment district and community organizations) and personal stories. The eras are completed but the other sections are still in progress.

The eras as organizing principle. They are mostly defined by the changes in the immigration laws – Chinese Exclusion Act, the War Brides Act, the 1965 Immigration Act. Equally important is the context of the city and region.

Maps on specific topics to help understand both the locational and social factors involve. E.g. although Chinatown was predominantly males of working age and called a “bachelor society” the analysis of the census shows the slow but clear growth of families from 1900 to WWII even under the Exclusion Act.

Articles from the historic Boston Globe. Given very sparse records and no memoirs, the digital files proved to be valuable resources for important events and daily life.

Photos from the Chinese Historical Society and archives (Boston Public Library, Historic Boston, Boston Globe etc.)

Focus on Boston is an on-going series curated by the Local Arrangements Committee to provide insight on and understanding of the geographies of Boston and New England. The 2017 AAG Annual Meeting will be held April 5-9, 2017, in Boston. 

DOI: 10.14433/2016.0013

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Elin Thorlund Joins AAG Staff as Research Assistant

The AAG is pleased to announce that Elin Thorlund has joined the association staff as a Research Assistant at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Elin served as an intern at the association during the spring 2015 semester, as well as during the AAG annual meetings in Chicago and San Francisco.

She will contribute to numerous areas of the AAG, including membership, accounting, journals, operations and annual meeting.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in geography with minors in Spanish and global studies in the arts and humanities from Michigan State University. As an undergraduate, she co-authored a paper in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers Volume 106, Number 3.

In her free time, Elin enjoys spending as much time in the outdoors as possible.

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New Books: July 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.

August 2016

Access, Property and American Urban Space by M. Gordon Brown (Routledge 2016)

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores (University Press of Kansas 2016)

Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground by Lisa Kemmerer (ed.) (Routledge 2016)

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, Sixth Edition by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield 2017)

The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by David Kazanjian (Duke University Press 2016)

Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar by Catherine A. Corson (Yale University Press 2016)

A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools by Nicole Nguyen (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel, Rebel by Theodore G. Ammon (ed.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2016)

Disasters and Social Resilience: A Bioecological Approach by Helen J. Boon, Alison Cottrell and David King (Routledge 2016)

Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field by Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser and Don Manson (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2016)

Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early

Twentieth Centuries by Johnathan Andrew Farris (Hong Kong University Press 2016)

Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman (Duke University Press 2016)

The Handbook of Neoliberalism by Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (Transaction Publishers 2012 [2016])

An Introduction to Clouds: From the Microscale to Climate by Fabian Mahrt, Felix Lüönd, and Ulrike Lohmann (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, Third Edition by John Krygier and Denis Wood (The Guilford Press 2016)

Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 by Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá by James Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick Hanselmann and Dominque Rissolo (University Press of Florida 2016)

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa by Bernhard Gissibl (Berghahn Press 2016)

Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri (Duke University Press 2016)

Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains by Kevin Z. Sweeney (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Reset Modernity! By Bruno Latour (ed.) (MIT Press 2016)

Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America by René Davids (ed.) (University Press of Florida 2016)

Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn? by Simon Marvin, Andres Luque-Ayala and Colin McFarlane (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society by Carolyn Merchant (Yale University Press 2016)

State and Politics: Deleuze and Guatarri on Marx by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (MIT Press 2016)

Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn (eds.) (Berghahn 2016 [2014])

Transnational Geographers in the United States: Navigating Autobiogeographies in a Global Age by Alan P. Marcus (ed.) (Lexington Books 2016)

Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman (Counterpoint Press 2016)

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Newsletter – July 2016

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

The End(s) of Geography?

By Glen M. MacDonald
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Serving as your President is a singular honor, but also one that is more than a little daunting. My trepidation arises from three sources. First, with the honor of being elected President comes the responsibility to ably serve the aspirations of a wonderful, but large and highly diverse membership. Second, our past Presidents have set a very high bar of achievements against which new incumbents are sure to be measured. These are big shoes to fill.

So, before I move on to my third point, allow me to thank the Members of the AAG for their confidence. I also thank our immediate past Presidents Sarah Bednarz, Mona Domosh and Julie Winkler for the inspiration and warm friendship they have provided.

In the end, all I can promise is that I will do my very best to serve all our Members and further the legacy of our past Presidents. What I would ask in return is that you share your ideas and experience with me. Be sure to let me know if I miss an important concern or stray off course in addressing such issues. I am very teachable.

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ANNUAL MEETING

Registration & Call for Papers Open Aug. 1

Join Us in Boston, April 5-9, 2017, for the AAG Annual Meeting

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The AAG invites scholars, professionals, and students to attend and present their latest work in geography at the AAG Annual Meeting, which will be held in Boston from April 5 to April 9, 2017.

The conference will feature over 6,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips. The call for papers and registration will open on August 1, 2016.

Call for Papers.

NEWS

Consultation on Sections in the ‘Annals of the AAG’

The AAG is considering a proposal to remove the four section headings in the Annals of the AAG, with the understanding that the creation of an editorial team that represents the breadth and integrity of the discipline should continue. It is also understood that several substantive areas of geography can reside within the expertise of each editor but no one editor can encompass the whole discipline. The proposal is to remove the confusion and containment that accrues to the establishment of section headings while maintain the disciplinary integrity of an editorial team. The AAG seeks your comments. Learn More.

AAG Seeks Nominations for 2017 Vice President, National Councilors

The AAG Nominating Committee seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) and for National Councilor (two vacancies) for the 2017 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2017.Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by June 30. Read More.

OPPORTUNITIES

awardsAAG Honors Nominations Deadline Extended to Friday, July 15, 2016

The AAG has extended the deadline to submit nominations for AAG Honors to July 15, 2016. AAG Honors are offered annually to recognize outstanding accomplishments by members in research and scholarship, teaching, education, service to the discipline, public service outside academe and for lifetime achievement. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by July 15. Currently, honors are awarded in six categories. Learn More.

Census Scientific Advisory Committee Seeks Nominations

The Census Bureau has issued a call for nominations for membership to the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. This committee advises the Director of the Census Bureau on statistical data collection, statistical analysis, econometrics, cognitive psychology, and a variety of other scientific areas pertaining to Census Bureau programs and activities. According to the notice in the Federal Register, “Nominees must have scientific and technical expertise in such areas as demography, economics, geography, psychology, statistics, survey methodology, social and behavioral sciences, Information Technology, computing, or marketing.” The deadline for applications is July 15, 2016. Learn More.

IN MEMORIAM

Brad Cullen

Cullen-Bradley-235x300-1Brad Cullen, professor emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico, passed away unexpectedly on June 4, 2016 at the age of 65.

He studied for his bachelor’s degree at Chico State University, California, then for his master’s degree at Miami University, Ohio. Next he moved to Michigan State University for a PhD in geography. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 1980, was entitled “Wood products plants in northwestern California: changes in location and size” and examined the forestry industry.

He became a member of the American Association of Geographers in 1979 and was actively involved in the Southwest Division, including serving as the Chair in 1992. Read More.

PUBLICATIONS

‘Annals of the AAG’ Among Top 10 Ranked Geography Journals

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The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, the flagship journal of the association, has once again been ranked among the top ten geography journals worldwide continuing a 15-year trend.

According to the Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters this month, the Annals of the AAG placed eighth out of 77 journals in the geography category.

The 2015 data also reveals that the journal’s Impact Factor increased from 2.291 to 2.756, the second highest score since 2000. Learn More.

Latest Issue of ‘GeoHumanities’ Features Special Thematic Forum on Attunement

As the space for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of geography and the humanities, GeoHumanities presents new opportunities for academic interaction and has inspired new proposals for special compilations on cross-cutting themes. The editors have accepted three of those proposals to date and will publish them as special forums in this and upcoming issues. The current issue features the first special forum on “Attunement,” bringing together an international and interdisciplinary set of papers exploring creative and social practices of attuning to forces, temporalities, and material processes that exceed the human subject. Learn More.

Environmental Sciences Section Editor Sought for ‘Annals of the AAG’

The AAG seeks applications and nominations for the Environmental Sciences section editor for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. The new section editor will be appointed for a four-year editorial term that will commence on January 1, 2017. The appointment will be made by fall 2016. A letter of application that addresses both qualifications and a vision for the Environmental Sciences section should be accompanied by a complete curriculum vitae. Nominations and applications should be submitted by Friday, October 7, 2016. Learn More.

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AAG Seeks Observers To Attend United Nations Climate Change Conference

The American Association of Geographers has been granted Observer Organization status to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). With this formal designation, the AAG is permitted to submit to the UNFCCC Secretariat its nominations for representatives to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will take place from November 7-18, 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco (COP-22/CMP12).

Prior to midnight Monday, July 25, 2016 persons interested in being nominated to attend by the AAG must be a current member of the AAG and provide the following information (in this exact format, please) via email to cmannozzi [at] aag [dot] org along with a copy of these instructions:

Note: All information must be as it appears in the official photo identification which the participant will present at the registration desk.

·      Salutation (Mr. Ms. Dr. etc.):

·      Given / First name:

·      Family name:

·      Functional title:

·      Department:

·      Organization:

·      Date of birth (DD/MM/YYYY):

·      Country which issued Passport:

·      Identification document number (Passport number):

·      E-mail address:

·      Telephone where you can be reached for questions about your application:

·      Dates within the range of November 7 – 18  for which you will be actually attending the COP sessions

·      A very brief paragraph describing your interest and purpose for attending the COP sessions

·      A statement agreeing with the terms of these instructions for nomination

Identification number, date of birth and name are for identification verification only and will not be made available to anyone outside of the AAG or the UNFCCC. Date of birth will also be used to signal nomination of minors.

AAG nominees will be provided with a copy of nomination documentation for eventual presentation at the Conference registration desk in Marrakesh, Morocco. The UN will provide a quota to the AAG which may restrict the number of participants or the dates for which nominees may be approved for attendance. This quota will be provided to the AAG after July 25, 2016.

All nominees must have their own source of financial support to attend and make all necessary travel, insurance, visa, and logistical arrangements for themselves; the AAG is not providing any funds or other support for travel or participation. Nominees also must release the AAG from any and all financial or legal liability during their period of participation and refrain from making proclamations, claims, announcements, or other statements as being the official position of the association or its membership. Attendees must also adhere to the codes of conduct and follow the guidelines for participation as outlined by the United Nations  (see https://unfccc.int/files/parties_and_observers/ngo/application/pdf/coc_guide.pdf).

Upon return, attendees will submit a brief trip report to the AAG Executive Director, Doug Richardson, drichardson [at] aag [dot] org

We will share more information on schedules, logistics, and accommodation for COP-22 as soon as it is made available to us.

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Maggie Busek Interns at AAG for Summer Semester

AAG intern Maggie Busek studied abroad in Spain for a semester in 2015. In this photo, she she’s pictured in Guadalest.

Maggie Busek is a junior at George Washington University pursuing a major in international affairs concentrating in contemporary cultures and societies, as well as minors in Spanish and cross-cultural communication. Maggie’s interests include anthropology, world health issues, and international politics. After graduation, Maggie intends to work towards a master’s degree in public health or international development and hopes to eventually work abroad. In her spare time, Maggie enjoys exploring DC, traveling, and kayaking.

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Greg Elmes, Retired WVU geography Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Greg Elmes, professor emeritus in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement award by the West Virginia Association of Geospatial Professionals for his dedication to the study and promotion of geographic information systems (GIS).

Though Elmes retired from teaching courses at West Virginia University in 2015, he remains active in research in the geography department and with the West Virginia GIS Technical Center, housed in the department.

He has more than 30 years of experience in geographic information systems and the application of GIS techniques to societal issues such as public health, industrial geography, forensics, crime mapping, and public safety.

“It is a recognition of the time devoted to both GIS and promoting GIS as an economic development and environmental tool for the state of West Virginia,” said Trevor Harris, Eberly Distinguished Professor of Geography. “Greg has devoted his life to this university, this department, this tech center, and to the state.”

Most recently Elmes co-edited the 2014 book, “Forensic GIS: The Role of Geospatial Technologies for Investigating Crime and Providing Evidence,” a book of case studies written for researchers, practitioners and students.

The book discusses a wide range of technologies and applications for geographic, or location-based, information systems in forensic science, and serves as a review of geospatial technology—the collecting, storing, processing and examining of geographic information—as it applies to criminal justice.

Elmes earned a bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom, in 1972, a master’s degree. in geography from Pennsylvania State University in 1974, a Ph.D. in geography from Pennsylvania State University in 1979, and a master of science degree in Geographical Information Systems from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He joined the WVU faculty in 1979.

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: May 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.

August 2016

Access, Property and American Urban Space by M. Gordon Brown (Routledge 2016)

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores (University Press of Kansas 2016)

Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground by Lisa Kemmerer (ed.) (Routledge 2016)

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, Sixth Edition by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield 2017)

The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by David Kazanjian (Duke University Press 2016)

Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar by Catherine A. Corson (Yale University Press 2016)

A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools by Nicole Nguyen (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel, Rebel by Theodore G. Ammon (ed.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2016)

Disasters and Social Resilience: A Bioecological Approach by Helen J. Boon, Alison Cottrell and David King (Routledge 2016)

Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field by Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser and Don Manson (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2016)

Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early

Twentieth Centuries by Johnathan Andrew Farris (Hong Kong University Press 2016)

Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman (Duke University Press 2016)

The Handbook of Neoliberalism by Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (Transaction Publishers 2012 [2016])

An Introduction to Clouds: From the Microscale to Climate by Fabian Mahrt, Felix Lüönd, and Ulrike Lohmann (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, Third Edition by John Krygier and Denis Wood (The Guilford Press 2016)

Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 by Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá by James Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick Hanselmann and Dominque Rissolo (University Press of Florida 2016)

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa by Bernhard Gissibl (Berghahn Press 2016)

Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri (Duke University Press 2016)

Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains by Kevin Z. Sweeney (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Reset Modernity! By Bruno Latour (ed.) (MIT Press 2016)

Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America by René Davids (ed.) (University Press of Florida 2016)

Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn? by Simon Marvin, Andres Luque-Ayala and Colin McFarlane (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society by Carolyn Merchant (Yale University Press 2016)

State and Politics: Deleuze and Guatarri on Marx by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (MIT Press 2016)

Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn (eds.) (Berghahn 2016 [2014])

Transnational Geographers in the United States: Navigating Autobiogeographies in a Global Age by Alan P. Marcus (ed.) (Lexington Books 2016)

Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman (Counterpoint Press 2016)

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Karl W. Butzer

Karl W. Butzer, a geographer, cultural ecologist and environmental archaeologist, who was a world-class scholar and particularly known for his fieldwork in countries across the world, passed away on May 4, 2016, at the age of 81.

Funeral information:

  • Visitation – Thursday, May 12th, 6-7pm, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Services, 2620 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704
  • Rosary – Thursday, May 12th, 7pm, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Services, 2620 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704
  • Funeral mass – Friday, May 13, 11am, at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 5455 Bee Cave Rd, West Lake Hills, TX 78746

A full obituary will follow soon.

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