New Books for Geographers: Spring 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.

Apartheid Remains, by Sharad Chari (Duke University Press 2024)

Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia, by Katrina M. Powell (Haymarket Books 2024)

Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, by Myka Tucker-Abramson (Stanford University Press 2025)

City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry, by James Michael Buckley (University of Texas Press 2024)

Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development, Second Edition, by Dawn Chatty and Marcus Colchester (Berghahn Books 2025)

Contested Global Governance Space and Transnational Agrarian Movements, by Mauro Conti (Fernwood Publishing 2023)

Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies, by Angie S. Lou and Karen T. Yamashita (Coffee House Press 2024)

Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare, by John Lechner (Bloomsbury 2025)

Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998, by Ruth Craggs and Hannah Neate (Wiley 2023)

Dispatches From Puerto Nowehere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, by Robert Lopez (Two Dollar Radio 2023)

Dispersed Dispossession: Collective Goods, Appropriation, and Agency in Rural Russia, by Alexander Vorbrugg (University of Georgia Press 2025)

Displacing the ‘Ordinary’ City: Gentrification in Mid-Sized American Metropolitan Areas, by Evelyn D. Ravuri (Bloomsbury Academic 2025)

The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond, by Ilana M. Horwitz (Princeton University Press 2025)

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet, by Ashley Dawson (Haymarket Books 2024)

Environomics: How the Global Economy is Going Green, by Dharshini David (Elliott & Thompson 2025)

Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine, by Oren Yiftachel (University of Pennsylvania Press 2024)

Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, by Laleh Khalili (Profile Books 2025)

Florida Springs: From Geography to Politics and Restoration, by Christoper F. Meindl (University Press of Florida 2024)

Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon, by Yolonda Youngs (University of Nebraska Press 2024)

Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity, by Cedric De Leon (University of California Press 2025)

Geographies of Travel: Impressions of America in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Susan L. Robertson (Texas A&M Press 2024)

Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History, by Ian Morris (MacMillan Publishers 2023)

The Geography of Transport Systems, Sixth Edition, by Jean-Paul Rodrigue (Routledge 2024)

Holy American Burnout!, by Sean Enfield (Split/Lip Press 2023)

Housing Evolution: Towards Better Medium-Density Design, by Geoffrey London (University of Western Australia Publishing 2023)

The Injustice of Property: Homeless Encampments and the Limits of Liberalism, by Stephen Przybylinski    (University of Georgia Press 2025)

Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations, edited by the Undisciplined Environments Collective (Fernwood Publishing 2024)

Introducing Globalization Theories: A Concise Overview for Students, by Manfred B. Steger (University of California Press 2025)

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, by Falguni Mukherjee (Rowan & Littleton 2025)

The Jemez Mountains: A Cultural and Natural History, by Thomas W. Swetnam (University of New Mexico Press 2025)

Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire, by Shania Potts (Duke University Press 2024)

Leading With Data: A Police Commander’s Guide to GIS & Crime Analysis, by Jonas H. Baughman (Esri Press 2025)

Mapping Partition: Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan, by Hannah Fitzpatrick (Wiley 2024)

Marginlands: A Journey Into India’s Vanishing Landscapes, by Arati Kumar-Rao (Milkweed Editions 2025)

Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions, by Jacob P. Chamberlain (University of Georgia Press 2025)

Mountain Lexicon: A Corpus of Montology and Innovation, by Fausto O. Sarmiento and Alexey Gunya              (Springer Geography  2024)

New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States, by Emily Mitchell-Eaton (University of Georgia Press 2024)

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad (Knopf 2025)

Patriotism to the Earth: A Quest for Humane Global Governance, by Richard A. Faulk and Sasha Milonova (Rowan & Littleton 2025)

Preserving Our Planet: GIS for Conservation, by David Gadsden and Matt Artz (Esri Press 2023)

Reading Gender and Space in Irish and Literary Studies: Essays for Patricia Coughlan, by Anne Fogarty and Tina O’Toole (Cork University Press 2023)

Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, by Brea Baker (Penguin Random House 2024)

Social Resilience and International Migration in the Canadian City, by Valerie Preston, Tim Shields, and Tara Bedard (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2025)

Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities, by Stephen Legg (University of Georgia Press 2025)

Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Haymarket Books 2025)

The Unequal Effects of Globalization, by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg (MIT Press 2023)

Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance, by Jennifer L. Rice, Joshua Long, and Anthony Levenda (University of Georgia Press 2023)

Urban Geography, 4th Edition, by David Kaplan and Steven Holloway (Wiley 2024)

War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror, by Samar Al-Bulushi (Stanford University Press 2024)

We, the Decolonized, by Hélé Béji (Wiley 2025)

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women, by Annabel Abbs-Streets (Tin House Publishing 2025)

You Have Been Randomly Selected: A Life Dedicated to Turning Research Findings into Practical Applications, by Don A. Dillman (Washington State University Press 2024)