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Featuring scholarly reviews of current books which are either geographic in sensitivities or are reviewed and interpreted through the multiple lenses that geography offers, the online journal offers a number of different formats, including the standard review of one book, a review essay in which the reviewer reflects upon a number of books on a particular theme, and the book review fora where multiple contributors discuss a newly published text. Published quarterly, each new issue makes two reviews freely available, and all content becomes free after one year. Book reviews were formerly published in the AAG’s flagship journals, Annals of the AAG and The Professional Geographer, but in 2013 these were brought together in this journal in order to offer greater scope for discussion and consideration of new texts.
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Read the Journal- Volume 13, Issue 1
- Firepower and its Violent Geographies
- African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development
- The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
- Climate Finance: Taking a Position on Climate Futures
- Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
- Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London
- The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
- In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought
- Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality
- The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean
- Extraction/Exclusion: Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction
- Disability Worlds
- The Climate Crisis and Other Animals
- Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction (2nd ed.)
- Theodore Burr and the Bridging of Early America: The Man, Fellow Bridge Builders, and Their Forgotten Timber Spans
Book review solicitation
Book reviews are written on invitation from the editorial office, although the Editor does welcome suggestions, particularly those pertaining to geographically significant works written by scholars in other disciplines. To suggest a recently-published book to review or to volunteer to review a book from our New Books for Geographers book lists, please contact the Editor.
If you have been invited to review a book for the journal, please consult the Guidelines for Reviewers regarding manuscript preparation and style.
Call for Editor
The AAG seeks applications for a cartography editor for our journals, consistent with the AAG JEDI Strategic Plan. The new editor will be appointed for a four-year term that will commence on January 1, 2026. The appointment is expected to be made in the late spring of 2025.
The cartography editor will review and enhance the quality and content of cartographic submissions to the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, The Professional Geographer, the AAG Review of Books, and GeoHumanities and ensure that all information is cartographically appropriate and clearly displayed. The editor will work in coordination with the journal editors and is responsible for all graphics published in the journals. This includes reviewing files for maps, figures, and photographs, to ensure that they satisfy all requirements for publication.
In support of these goals, the editorial candidate should possess demonstrated expertise within cartography, a record of scholarly achievement, a broad perspective on the discipline of geography, respect and affection for its diversity, and an ability to work constructively with authors during the review process. Institutional support for the new editor (especially some time released from teaching) is desirable, but not mandatory. The AAG will provide a stipend of $10,000 per year (or as approved by Council) for the editor, to be used for expenses and honorarium at the editor’s discretion.
The editor will work in coordination with the AAG Publications Director. The Publications Director bears primary responsibility for the logistics of processing manuscripts, and for assembling and coordinating the publication of each issue of the journal in collaboration with the editors and the journal’s publisher. Editor candidates, therefore, should share the AAG Council’s vision of an accessible, decentralized, and collaborative Annals editorship.
The AAG strives to build an editorial team that reflects the diversity of the community we work in and the institutional diversity of our field. The AAG encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ2SI people, veterans, and people with disabilities. Applicants from teaching institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges, and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), research institutions, Associate degree-granting institutions, and private or public sector and nonprofit organizations are welcome.
Please submit the complete application package by January 27, 2025, via this form. The application package should include the following information:
- Statement addressing qualifications for the editorship including a personal statement on diversity (see AAG’s statement on Academic Freedom for context).
- Complete CV, including any previous editorial experience.
- Signed AAG Journal Editor Code of Conduct Certification Form (the blank AAG Journal Editor Code of Conduct Certification Form can be downloaded from here.)
For questions, please contact AAG Publications Director Jennifer Cassidento.
