American Association of Geographers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Hillary AngeloWhile Foster's "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" and Angelo's "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens" may have little in common, Brasdefer's review essay weaves the two together in light of COVID-19 https://t.co/lmd3rjMsEK https://t.co/vgtuNaFeYA
Hardcover, 2021
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Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean
Camilla HawthorneGeographer @camillahawth speaks w/ @USC ethnographer & @HutchinsCenter Fellow @Reighangillam about Hawthorne’s new book Contesting Race & Citizenship: Youth #Politics in the Black Mediterranean (@cornellpress) on @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksGeog #geography https://t.co/VkTEn7ooVu
Paperback, 2022
$31.95Member price:$31.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive
Jennifer Mae HamiltonAAG Review of Books board member @sashacakes reflects on why and how two recent works, "Pollution Is Colonialism" and "Feminist Queer Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive," matter to her https://t.co/zcAAjtKjcC https://t.co/kpgLIWnghu
Paperback, 2021
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Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
Karl RaitzTravel through the landscapes of Kentucky while learning about the economic geographies of bourbon in two new books by Raitz: "Bourbon's Backroads" and "Making Bourbon." 🥃 Post provides a review: https://t.co/60x9FL9uvx https://t.co/d5L1RBTiAa
Paperback, 2023
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Alessandro MonsuttiPresenting decades-long ethnographic research Monsutti's "Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan" asserts that to understand Afghanistan we must understand transnational ties says reviewer @Oeppen https://t.co/WAhtRav79E https://t.co/Do5LEqbPrN
Paperback, 2023
$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier
Kristian Karlo SaguinCongratulations to Kristian Karlo Saguin of @upsystem for receiving the 2022 AAG Meridian Book Award! Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier serves as a model for students seeking to examine urban places across the globe. https://t.co/ZF7Docodon https://t.co/UnOaOqSnL9
Paperback, 2022
$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore
Abigail Perkiss10 years after #HurricaneSandy, Geographer @ChefStentor talks w/ historian @AbiPerk about her work to preserve stories of people who experienced the storm. *Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore* (@CornellPress), @NewBooksGeog @NewBooksNetwork https://t.co/WCGikMGJYb
Paperback, 2022
$22.95Member price:$22.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Postcards from the Baja California Border: Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s-1950s
Daniel D. ArreolaCongrats to Daniel Arreola of @ASU for receiving the 2022 AAG Globe Book Award! Postcards from the Baja California Border takes readers on a time-travel journey through border town histories & geographies while celebrating the visual intrigue of postcards. https://t.co/JDMclO6WIh https://t.co/AH8TSFF9gG
Hardcover, 2021
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Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States
Martin J. Bush"Center[ing] on the human, social, and policy dimensions of climate change adaptation in small island developing states,” AAG member @island_scholar @colbycollege https://t.co/GAPhU97Pwd #climatechange #SIDS #EarthDay
Hardcover, 2018
$145.95Member price:$131.35 + Free shipping10% off
The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach
Zoë O'ReillyRead three reviews of O’Reilly’s "The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach" from migration and asylum researchers in this written author meets critics forum: https://t.co/lrBowYI6mg cc @karenetill @malenehjacobsen
Paperback, 2020
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