New Books for Geographers: Winter 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.

Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World, by Ståle Holgersen (Verso Books 2024)

Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River, by Austin Zeiderman (Duke University Press 2025)

Borderlines and Bottlenecks: Global Supply Chain Geography in a Post-Pandemic World, by Xiang Zhang (Bloomsbury 2026)

The Catastrophe of Disaster Aid: Post-Earthquake Haiti, NGOs and Vulnerability to Natural Disasters, by Mark Schuller (University of the West Indies Press 2025)

Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettles Futures in Bengaluru , edited by Vinay Gidwani, Michael Goldman, and Carol Upadhya (University of Minnesota Press 2024)

Climate Change and the Energy Transition: The Science, Politics, and Solutions for a Sustainable Future, by Anirudh Singh (Routledge 2025)

The Cultural Politics of Food in South Africa: Media, Nourishment, Inequality, by Mehita Iqani and Sarah Gibson (Manchester University Press 2026)

Economic Geography: The Basics, by Julie MacLeavy, Kean Fan Lim, and Allan Watson (Routledge 2026)

Fear of a Dead White Planet, by More Worlds Collective, Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek, and M. Murphy (Duke University Press 2025)

Futures of the Sun: The Struggle over Renewable Life, by Imre Szeman (University of Minnesota Press 2024)

Fuzzy Boundaries: Threshold Between Water and Land, edited by Francesca Dal Cin, Joana de Mesquita Lima, and Sérgio Barreiros Proença (Routledge 2025)

Gaia’s Web, by Karen Bakker (MIT Press 2024)

Geography and Disasters: Places, Processes and the Human Geographical Imagination, edited by Nathaniel O’Grady and Gemma Sou (Bloomsbury 2026)

The Jail Is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration, by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, and Judah Schept (Verso Books 2024)

Listening to Landscape: Hauntology and the Echoes of Albion, by Phil Hubbard (Bloomsbury 2025)

Living the Urban Periphery: Infrastructure, Everyday Life and Economic Change in African City-regions, by Paula Meth, Sarah Charlton, Tom Goodfellow, and Alison Todes (Manchester University Press 2026)

Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility, by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (University of Washington Press 2024)

Nevermore, by Cécile Wajsbrot (Seagull Books 2024)

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, by Erika Nesvold (MIT Press 2024)

The Parks Belong to the People: The Geography of the National Park System, by Joe Weber and Selima Sultana (University of Georgia Press 2024)

Power Plants: Bioenergy, Vegetal Labour and the Politics of Productivity, by James Palmer (Manchester University Press 2026)

Producer Responsibility in Practice: Approaches to Advancing Product Circularity, by Amy D. Cabaniss (Bloomsbury 2024)

Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore, by Jamie Wang (MIT Press 2024)

Relics of Modernity, edited by Andrew F. Wood (Bloomsbury 2025)

Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies, edited by Paul Foley and Jennifer J. Silver (Routledge 2025)

A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places, by John Edward Huth (Reaktion 2025)

Soundscapes of Life: Deep Listening to the World Around Us, by Mike Edwards (Routledge 2025)

Tent City, Seattle: Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home, by Tony Sparks (University of Washington Press 2024)

Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women, edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Sunil Sharma, and Daniel Majchrowicz (Zubaan 2024)

Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State, by Danny Dorling (Verso Books 2023)