New Books: December 2015
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.
December, 2015
- Africa’s Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania by James T. Murphy, Padraig Carmody (Wiley-Blackwell 2015, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118751329.html)
- Anxious Appetites: Food and Consumer Culture by Peter Jackson (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/anxious-appetites-9781472588159/)
- Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Arizona Press 2015, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2534.htm)
- Beyond the Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the North and South by Olivier Coutard and Jonathan Rutherford (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781138796829/)
- Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective, Second Edition by Scott Crow (PM Press 2015, https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=618)
- The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon by Andrés Ruzo (Simon & Schuster/ TED 2016, http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Boiling-River/Andres-Ruzo/TED-Books/9781501119477)
- Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth by Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, and James Davis (PM Press 2012, http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=501)
- Climate Risk and Resilience in China by Rebecca Nadin, Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, Xu Yinlong (eds.) (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/978113881884)
- Discovering the North-West Passage by Glenn M. Stein (McFarland 2015, http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7708-1)
- eFieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World by Roger Sanjek and Susan W. Tratner, Editors (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1086.html)
- Everyday Peace? Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India by Philippa Williams (Wiley Blackwell 2015, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118837800.html)
- Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945, 7th Edition by Ron Johnston and James Sidaway (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780340985106/)
- The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans by Hannigan, John (Polity Books 2015, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745680187)
- Global Garbage: Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment by Christoph Lindner and Miriam Meissner (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781138841390/)
- Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century by Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney, Annie M. Gibson (Louisiana State University Press 2015, http://lsupress.org/books/detail/hispanic-and-latino-new-orleans/)
- Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives by Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, and Stephen Carleton (Indiana University Press 2016, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807771)
- In the Shadow of Boone and Crockett: Race, Culture, and the Politics of Representation in the Upland South by Ian C. Hartman (University of Tennessee Press 2015, http://www.peregrinebookcompany.com/book/9781621901693)
- Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation by Brent McCusker, William G. Moseley and Maano Ramutsindela (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442207165/Land-Reform-in-South-Africa-An-Uneven-Transformation)
- Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo (Routledge 2016, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138888821/)
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South by Paul S. Sutter (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/let_us_now_praise_famous_gullies)
- A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice by Joshua Kahn Russell, Stephen D’Arcy, Tony Weis, and Toban Black (PM Press 2015, http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=686)
- Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America by Harris, Dianne (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/little-white-houses)
- Mapping Region in Early American Writing by Edward Watts, Keri Holt, and John Funchion (eds.) (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/mapping_region_in_early_american_writing)
- Mapping the West with Lewis and Clark by Ralph E. Ehrenberg and Herman J. Viola (Library of Congress 2015, http://www.levenger.com/mapping-the-west-with-lewis-and-clark-13445.aspx)
- Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home by Iris Levin (eds.) (Routledge, 2015 http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415720687/)
- Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing by Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese and Gary Totten (eds.) (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138823457)
- Practical Meteorology: An Algebra-based Survey of Atmospheric Science by Roland Stull (digital book published open access online 2015, http://www.eos.ubc.ca/books/Practical_Meteorology/)
- A Primer of GIS (Second Edition) by Francis Harvey (Guilford Press 2015, http://www.guilford.com/books/A-Primer-of-GIS/Francis-Harvey/9781462522170)
- Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization by Colin Clarke (Palgrave Macmillan 2015, www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137540775)
- Religion, Space, and the Environment by Sigurd Bergmann (Transaction 2014, http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Religion,-Space,-and-the-Environment-978-1-4128-5257-9.html)
- Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young, Editors (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15445.html)
- The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change by Karen C. Seto, William D. Solecki and Corrie A. Griffith (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415732260/)
- Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging by Avril Maddrell, Alan Terry and Tim Gale (Ashgate 2015, www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472420077)
- South Africa’s Emergent Middle Class by Grace Khunoun (ed.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138960442/)
- Spaces of Global Knowledge by Diarmid A. Finnegan and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright (Ashgate 2015, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472444363)
- Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane (eds.) (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/territories_of_poverty)
- Tourism and Sustainability: Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World, 4th Edition by Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138013261/)
- Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development by Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren and René van der Duim (Ashgate 2015, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472424365)
- Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915–1940 by Travis Tomchuk (University of Manitoba Press 2015, https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/transnational-radicals)
- Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction by Andrew E.G. Jonas, Eugene McCann, and Mary Thomas (Wiley Blackwell 2015, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405189797.html)
- Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State by Anne Haila (Wiley Blackwell 2015, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118827678.html)
- Urban Revitalization: Remaking cities in a changing world by Carl Grodach and Renia Ehrenfeucht (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415730532/)
- Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup, eds (Berghahn Books 2015, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=HastrupWaterworlds)
- The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography by John Agnew, Virginie Mamadouh, Anna J. Secor, and Joanne Sharp (eds.) (Wiley Blackwell 2015, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118725883.html)