New Books in Geography
Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
- Language
- š¬š§ English
- last modified
- 2025-03-08 11:06
- last episode published
- 2025-03-08 09:00
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- 11.05 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 557
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-08 | Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refi... |
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| 2025-03-07 | California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasnāt deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes, floods, landslides and debris flo... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025) The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeformsāeven so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its sh... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024) Today IĀ talked toĀ Marcia Bjornerud aboutĀ Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of RocksĀ (Flatiron Books, 2024). Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed. Mar... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024) From deer and beavers to āfree rangeā pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of animals. In 1858, the city adopted the Greensward Plan and began the long process of reshaping the... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025) āNo manās landā invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality. According to Noam Leshem inĀ Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's LandĀ (U Chicago Press, 2025)... |
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| 2025-02-27 | Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate professor Laureen Hom inĀ The Power of Chinatown:Ā Searching for Spatial Justice in Los AngelesĀ (Californ... |
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| 2025-02-27 | In times of extreme violence, what explains peace in some places? This book investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002, an event witnessed closely by the author. Dhattiwala compares peaceful and violent towns, village... |
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| 2025-02-20 | When we think of the sixteenth-century arrival of European missionaries in East Asia, there is a tendency to imagine this meeting as a civilizational clash, a great meeting of two fixed cultures. This clash is symbolized in the āRicci map(s)ā: a map cr... |
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| 2025-02-09 | We are living through a world-rattling ecological inflection point, with an unprecedented consensus that capitalism is leading humanity into a social and ecological catastrophe and that everything needs to change, and fast. Thankfully, radical environm... |
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