New Books in Geography — June 2018

 

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related fields. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Kent Mathewson (kentm [at] lsu [dot] edu). Listed below are the books received from publishers in the last month.

June 2018

Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968 by Mark Shiel (ed.) (Temple University Press 2018)

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books 2018)

Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences by Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig (eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Communications/Media/Geographies by Paul C. Adams, Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, André Jansson, and Shaun Moores (Routledge 2017)

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour (Polity Books 2018)

An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’ by Niv Horesh and Kean Fan Lim (Routledge 2018)

Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader by Christopher W. Wells (ed.) (University of Washington Press 2018)

The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative by Robert A. Voeks (Univeristy of Chicago Press 2018)

Food and Animal Welfare by Henry Buller and Emma Roe (Bloomsbury Academic 2018)

Franco-America in the Making: The Creole Nation Within by Jonathan K. Gosnell (University of Nebraska Press 2018)

The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia by Natalie Koch (Cornell University Press 2018)

How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West by David Bernstein (University of Nebraska Press 2018)

Ice: Nature and Culture by Klaus Dodds (Chicago University Press 2018)

Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change by Janelle S. Wong (Russell Sage Foundation 2018)

On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh (Duke University Press 2018)

Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline by Robert A. Saunders and Vlad Strukov (eds.) (Routledge 2018)

The Road to Inequality: How the Federal Highway Program Polarized America and Undermined Cities by Clayton Nall (Cambridge University Press 2018)