Geography

Geography

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Interviews with geographers about their new books.

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Cynthia A. Ruder, "Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)

August 31, 2024

Building Stalinism

Cynthia A. Ruder
Hosted by Samantha Lomb

In Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space (I. B. Tauris, 2018), Cynthia Ruder explores how the building of the Moscow c…

Stuart Elden, "The Birth of Territory" (U Chicago Press, 2013)

August 17, 2024

The Birth of Territory

Stuart Elden

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled p…

Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)

August 16, 2024

Marrakesh and the Mountains

Abbey Stockstill
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into …

Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)

August 14, 2024

White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America

Miguel Montalva Barba
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space…

Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

August 10, 2024

Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa

Catherine Boone
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African countr…

Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024)

August 8, 2024

City Steps of Pittsburgh

Laura Zurowski, Charles Succop, and Matthew Jacob

In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest c…

Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)

August 7, 2024

Automotive Empire

Andrew Denning
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Andrew Denning uncovers how roads…

Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)

July 31, 2024

Roots of Power

Michael J. Sheridan
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protec…

Ed Pulford, "Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea" (Stanford UP, 2024)

July 25, 2024

Past Progress

Ed Pulford
Hosted by Yadong Li

Anxiety may have been abounding in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, but for citizens of former…

Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard Asia Center, 2024)

July 24, 2024

Pivot of China

Mark Baker
Hosted by Huiying Chen

China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary o…

Arang Keshavarzian, "Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East" (Stanford UP, 2024)

July 21, 2024

Making Space for the Gulf

Arang Keshavarzian
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these cont…

Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)

July 18, 2024

Parks for Profit

Kevin Loughran
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dist…

Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)

July 12, 2024

Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East

Sam Dolbee
Hosted by Maggie Freeman

Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) focuses on the intersections of three entities other…

Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024)

July 11, 2024

The Story of Southeast Asia

Eric Thompson
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political st…

David Alff, "The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

July 9, 2024

The Northeast Corridor

David Alff
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far bey…

Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024)

July 5, 2024

Who We Are Is Where We Are

Amanda McMillan Lequieu
Hosted by Michael Johnston

Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still cal…

Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

July 3, 2024

Locusts of Power

Samuel Dolbee
Hosted by Deren Ertas

In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and En…

John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024)

July 3, 2024

Creatures of Fashion

John Soluri
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, …

Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)

July 1, 2024

Privileging Place

Meaghan Stiman
Hosted by Mark Klobas

In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and…

Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality: A Conversation with William Conroy

June 30, 2024

Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality

William Conroy
Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon

We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capi…