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New Books in Geography is an author-interview podcast channel showcasing new books in the geography field. http://www.newbooksnetwork.com/

The channel has a back catalog of over 50 podcast episodes. New Books in Geography is part of the New Books Network author-interview podcast consortium.

05/07/2022

In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish.

THE VALUE of the WHALE: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism (Manchester University Press) examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, THE VALUE of the WHALE asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value. Author-interview podcast link ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/how-to-value-the-earth

17/06/2022

As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the 7th highest incarceration rate in the world. In COAL, CAGES, CRISIS: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (NYU Press), Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America’s hinterlands. Schept is our guest on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/coal-cages-crisis

08/06/2022

Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, FOR A NEW GEOGRAPHY is a milestone in the history of critical geography and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, FOR A NEW GEOGRAPHY functioned as a bridge between geography’s past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies.

Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogeneous and creative field of inquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. FOR A NEW GEOGRAPHY reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. PODCAST LINK ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/for-a-new-geography

20/05/2022

Corey Byrnes’ FIXING LANDSCAPE: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press) brings together the Tang dynasty poetry of Du Fu, Song travel writing about the same, late Qing cartographic ventures, texts written by Western travelers in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as contemporary Chinese film and landscape art (among many other sources) to analyze how the Three Gorges region has been written and rewritten. The books’ title, and its critical intervention, turns on the dual meaning of “fixing.” A “fixed” landscape is both a (constructed) space of cultural coherence and a terrain continuously altered to hew to social, political, economic, and even moral demands. By investigating aesthetic forms that seek to represent and mold the Three Gorges, Byrnes investigates how “landscape ideas act materially in the production of space.” Learn more as Byrnes joins us on the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/fixing-landscape

04/05/2022

The land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Valley has been one of the most disputed territories in history. Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Palestinians and Israelis have each sought to claim the national identity of the land through various martial, social, and scientific tactics, but no method has offered as much legitimacy and national controversy as that of the map.

In THE POLITICS of MAPS: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine (Oxford University Press), Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell delve beneath the battlefield to unearth the cartographic strife behind the Israel/Palestine conflict. Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews and ethnographies, this book explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Learn more on the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-politics-of-maps

03/05/2022

Jo Guldi's new book tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the 20th century: the basis of movements for giving reparations to formerly colonized people, protests to limit the rent paid by urban tenants, intellectual battles among development analysts, and the capture of land by squatters taking matters into their own hands.

THE LONG LAND WAR: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale University Press) provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, info rmation technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet. Learn more on the author-interview podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-long-land-war

29/04/2022

In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that followed, beachcombers started to find Lego washed up on beaches across the south west coast. Among the pieces they discovered were octopuses, sea grass, spear guns, life rafts, scuba tanks, cutlasses, flippers and dragons. The pieces are still washing up today. ADRIFT: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea (Unicorn) is a colourfully illustrated and engaging tale, for all ages, of the Lego pieces and the stories behind their continuing discovery by beachcombers and fishermen. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/adrift

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