Jamie Rohu 🌱 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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15. #GeographyBookOfTheWeek The third (of four) in my sub-series of books which shaped my thinking in the early stages of my #PhD is Noel Castree and Bruce Braun’s 2001 edited volume ‘Social Nature - Theory, Practice, and Politics’. It’s a cracker 🤓 1/ https://t.co/x67cylnH7t

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@tcddublin I would personally like to see it renamed the Mary Robinson Library, in light of her valuable contributions toward the college, the state, women’s rights, the UN and climate justice. @LindaDoyle @

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9. #GeographyBookOfTheWeek Let’s consider #biogeography this week for a change - what lives where and why. One of my all-time favourite 📚👇 ‘Wolves of Ireland - A natural and cultural history’ by Kieran Hickey, published in 2011by Open Air. 1/ https://t.co/KzSVTRJmRs

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14. #GeographyBookOfTheWeek This week’s 📕 is ‘Nature’s Metropolis - Chicago and the Great West’ by William Cronon. It was first published in 1991. I will discuss both the text and my own reading of it. This is the second key text I read before beginning my #PhD 1/ https://t.co/rONMNweL7B

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7. #GeographyBookOfTheWeek Here’s a formative text from my inauguration into human geography👇 Tim Cresswell’s ‘Geographic Thought - A Critical Introduction’ is an essential book 📕 for emerging geographers as I’ll explain in the coming 🧵 1/ https://t.co/P0BsHltdQN

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Poststructuralism places an emphasis on power dynamics. It is associated with late 20th century continental philosophers like Michel Foucault. Cresswell asks in his book if we really have agency or whether our lives are determined by a hidden ‘structure’ - all good stuff! 7/ https://t.co/rsOZPGNllz

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3. #GeographyBookOfTheWeek I’m covering textbooks in this series to begin with, but this week let’s briefly look at a genre classic: ‘Imposing Wilderness’ by Roderick P Neumann. This book was first published in 1998 and is still in print. It’s central thesis remains profound.1/ https://t.co/gocruzswCm

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Great interview by @ClaireByrneLive with @Itwitius about his new book 📕 ‘The Future of Geography’, which examines the politics of space 🪐exploration 🚀 and resource extraction ⛏ Fascinating stuff! 🛰 https://t.co/SM3f0hVt3s

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All the best known ‘geographers’ are included, including Michel Foucault, Arturo Escobar, Denis Cosgrove, Gilles Deleuze, J.K. Gibson-Graham, Donna Haraway, David Harvey and bell hooks. 5/

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These include race, gender and of course nature and society. Last week I placed the spotlight on Paul Robbins’ ‘Political Ecology’ and described the theories within. ‘Nature’s Metropolis’ falls under Robbins’ concept of ‘urban metabolism’. 5/

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