New Books in Geography

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This episode features an interview with Ryan Emanuel about his book 'On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice' (2024) discussing Indigenous environmental justice issues.

This episode features an interview with historian Katrina Navickas about her book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England,' exploring the historical relationship between protest movements and public spaces.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

The New Books Network promotes its 2026 audience survey, explaining how listener feedback helps secure partnerships and improve the podcast while offering a chance to win a $100 bookshop.org gift card.

This episode features an interview with authors Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke about their book 'Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction', exploring how human geography examines human interactions with physical environments and geographical locations.

This episode features an interview with author Michael Hurley about his book 'Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight', exploring the cultural and historical significance of Bangkok's river systems.

This episode features an interview with nature writer Robert Macfarlane about his book 'Is a River Alive?' exploring humanity's relationship with the natural world through his personal experiences and literary work.

This episode features an interview with author Jean-Thomas Tremblay about his book 'Breathing Aesthetics' published by Duke University Press, exploring connections between breath, aesthetics, and geography.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode is a promotional announcement for the NewBooks Network's 2026 audience survey, encouraging listeners to provide feedback to help shape the podcast's future partnerships and resources.

This episode features an interview with Christiane Tristl about her book exploring how digital innovation and private sector involvement are transforming water into a commodity in development contexts.

This episode features an interview with authors Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr about their 2025 academic book 'Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality', exploring environmental studies through sonic and multimodal perspectives.

Jen Rose Smith discusses her book 'Ice Geographies,' exploring how ice has been used to racialize Alaska Native peoples and dispossess them of land, while also critiquing climate narratives that erase indigenous perspectives.

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Thea Riofrancos discusses her book on lithium mining and green capitalism, exploring the tensions between global decarbonization efforts and local environmental justice in places like Chile's Atacama Desert.

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Joanne Yao discusses her book 'The Ideal River,' exploring how 19th-century river commissions on the Rhine, Danube, and Congo shaped modern international organizations and environmental politics.

Host Devika Jain interviews Milan Janosov about his book 'Geospatial Data Science Essentials: 101 Practical Python Tips and Tricks.' They discuss how the book evolved from a personal cheat sheet, its practical focus for data scientists working with spatial data, and key topics like GeoPandas, open-source tools, and spatial networks.

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Jeremy DeWaal discusses his book 'Geographies of Renewal', which examines the concept of Heimat in post-World War II West Germany, arguing against the myth that it was taboo and uncovering efforts to frame it democratically.

Jesse Rodenbiker discusses his book 'Ecological States', exploring how China uses ecological policies like urban-rural coordination and conservation redlines to exert state power, often displacing millions and deepening social inequality.

This episode features an interview with Emanuel Deutschmann about his book 'Mapping the Transnational World,' exploring how people move and communicate across borders and why this matters in today's globalized society.

This episode features an interview with Gonzalo Lizarralde about his book 'Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed' (Columbia UP, 2021), exploring why many disaster and climate change responses fail while some succeed.

This episode features an interview with Pierre Schouten about his book 'Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa,' which examines how roadblocks in conflict zones reveal power dynamics between rebels, locals, and state authorities.

This episode features an interview with Professor Charles Watkins about his new book 'Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation', exploring the historical and contemporary significance of trees and woodlands.

This episode features an interview with author Ihnji Jon about her book 'Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics' exploring the intersection of urban environments, ecological challenges, and political systems in the modern era.

This episode features an interview with Professor Heather Davis about her 2022 book 'Plastic Matter,' exploring plastic's environmental and cultural impacts in the Anthropocene.

This episode features an interview with Owen Reese about his book 'The Far Edges of the Known World,' which explores the history of nomadism and nomadic peoples while addressing pseudo-history in modern discourse.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode features an interview with Stephen Legg about his book 'Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities,' which examines anti-colonial politics in Delhi before India's 1947 independence through a spatial governmentality framework.

This episode features an interview with James Cheshire, author of 'The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress,' discussing his work in cartography and geographic information.

This episode features an interview with author Edward McPherson about his book 'Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View' on the New Books Network.

An interview with authors Rob Holmes and Brett Milligan about their book 'Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making', exploring the environmental and design implications of sediment management.

This episode promotes the New Books Network's 2026 audience survey while introducing an upcoming interview with Dr.

This episode features an interview with Ilan Kelman about his book 'Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries' (UCL Press, 2022), exploring academic perspectives on Antarctica.

This episode features an interview with Laurie Parsons about her book 'Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown', exploring how wealthy nations shift climate burdens to poorer regions.

This episode features an interview with author Catherine Boland-Urquhanna about her book 'Spaces of Immigration,' which examines how American ports, railways, and settlements shaped immigrant experiences through segregation based on race, ethnicity, and class.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

Host Stentor Danielson interviews Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P.

John Elledge discusses his book 'A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders,' exploring how borders shape identities and politics.

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Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds discuss their book 'Unfrozen,' exploring how climate change, geopolitical competition, and resource extraction are transforming the Arctic.

Christian Henderson's New Books Network conversation on Monarchies of Extraction argues that the Gulf states are inverted farms because they depend on food produced elsewhere.

Zeb Larson interviews Caroline Tracy about Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, a book that combines memoir, environmental history, and geography across the American West and Western Asia.

Tim Cresswell tells Stephen Pimper that The Citizen and the Vagabond treats mobility, not fixity, as the basis of social hierarchy, from first class and economy travel to stop-and-search on city streets.

["Stentor Danielson of Slippery Rock University interviews Tao Balve on New Books in Geography about The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia from Cornell University Press.", "Balve says his route into the book ran through NACLA journalism, Colombia reporting in 2006, and an Urab\u00e1 investigation into oil palm plantations, paramilitaries, and USAID-linked agricultural money.", "He argues that Colombia's violence is not proof of a missing state, but a clash among guerrillas, paramilitaries, landowners, unions, and security forces building rival state projects.", "The interview also covers Urab\u00e1 as a frontier shaped by Medell\u00edn elites, Panama's separation, United Fruit, and the displacement of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities, plus his later work on rural U.S.

Adi Kim talks with Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks about why Global Asias works better as an architecture than a theory, because it holds area studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and indigenous studies in one conversation.

An academic interview discussing a scholar's recent geography research, hosted by Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo on the Second Cold War Observatory podcast.

An academic interview about a new book on Australia's toxic relationship with big oil, hosted by a geography professor.

An academic interview podcast where scholars discuss their recently published geography research.

An interview with Isaac Stanley Becker about his book 'Europe Without Borders: A History', focusing on the Schengen agreement and European border politics.

An academic interview about a National Geographic book exploring Earth's hell-like destinations and their geological and cultural significance.