Geography, Environment & Urban S24 Subject Catalogue

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Atmospheric Violence

Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Omer Aijazi

Contemporary Ethnography

June 2024 296pp 30 b&w illus.

9781512823608 £27.99/ $32.50 PB

9781512823615 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Kashmir, this book takes us to two remote mountainous valleys to discover the movements, flows, and intimacies sustained by a landscape. Through a series of interconnected scenes from the lives of five protagonists Aijazi explores those who do not subscribe to the rules.

Broken City Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis

Patrick Condon

May 2024 250pp 54 b&w photos, 8 charts, 3 maps, 1 table

9780774869553 £27.99/ $32.95 PB

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS

Many immigrants, racialized minorities, young people, and service workers are barred from joining the middle classes as they cannot build wealth through home ownership. Wages for workers stay flat, while housing costs multiply. What can be done? Condon offers several examples of how cities have reclaimed land wealth from speculators and individuals for the common good and proposes a range of solutions.

Camera Geologica

An Elemental History of Photography

Siobhan Angus

March 2024 328pp 55 illus., including 32 in color

9781478030188 £24.99/ $28.95 PB

9781478025931 £97.00/ $107.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Focusing on the inextricable links between imagemaking and resource extraction, Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends.

Between Soil and Society

Legislative History and Political Development of Farm Bill Conservation Policy

Jonathan Coppess

May 2024 350pp index

9781496225146 £58.00/ $65.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Traces the history and development of conservation policy, especially as it compares to, and interacts with, the development of farm policy and such factors as climate change.

Building Little Saigon

Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs

Erica Allen-Kim

Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices

July 2024 248pp

9781477329719 £36.00/ $39.95 PB

9781477322994 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons.” Allen-Kim highlights architecture and planning ideas adapted by the Vietnamese, through travelling to ten Little Saigons in the US.

Caring for Life

A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene

Kelly Dombroski

Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds

March 2024 224pp 9 b&w illus.

9781517901608 £22.99/ $27.00 PB

9781517979850 £97.00/ $108.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Caring for Life examines the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices and amplifies the creative work of ordinary people guarding human and more-than-human life in their everyday practices of care. Caring for Life shows how experiments in personal care can lead to widespread change, providing hopeful of environmental action.

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China's Camel Country

Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

Thomas White

Series edited & Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

June 2024 248pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 table

9780295752433 £27.99/ $32.00 PB

9780295752426 £94.00/ $105.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Alasha now styles itself as “China’s Camel Country,” where the domestic camel has status, exempted from many conservation policies. This study is a biography of the Bactrian camel and addresses critical questions of conservation.

Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

Casey A. Huegel

Series edited & Foreword by Paul S. Sutter

April 2024 272pp 15 b&w illus., 2 maps

9780295752556 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9780295752549 £94.00/ $105.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent waste disposal. This book tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots activists.

Creating the Hudson River Park

Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed

Tom Fox

April 2024 304pp 15 color and 29 b&w images

9781978814011 £23.99/ $27.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Creating the Hudson River Park is a first-person story of how this park came to be. Working together over three decades, community groups, civic and environmental organizations, labor, the real estate and business community, government agencies, and elected officials won a historic victory for environmental preservation, the use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, and urban redevelopment.

Circular Ecologies

Environmentalism and Waste

Politics in Urban China

Amy Zhang

July 2024 224pp

9781503639294 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781503637962 £99.00/ $110.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Zhang argues that in post-reform China, waste—the material vestige of decades of growth and increasing consumption—is a systemic irritant that troubles China's technocratic governance. Waste provoked an unlikely political coalition of urban communities that came to constitute a nascent, bottom-up environmental politics, and offers a model for conceptualizing ecological action under authoritarian conditions.

Climate of Denial

Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Allen MacDuffie

August 2024 272pp

9781503639546 £27.99/ $32.00 PB

9781503638938 £116.00/ $130.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. Climateof Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used—then and now—to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet

Dark Agoras

Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

J.T. Roane

February 2024 312pp 4 b&w illus.

9781479831029 £20.99/ $24.00 NIP

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods, shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power.

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Devil's Mile

The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Foreword by Peter Quinn

July 2024 304pp 25 b&w illus.

9781531507268 £16.99/ $19.95 PB

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of the Bowery, New York’s oldest and most unique street.

Discovering Nothing

In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage

David L. Nicandri

March 2024 328pp 16 b&w photos, 6 maps

9780774868877 £98.00/ $109.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS

Nicandri maps a cast of geographic visionaries and practical explorers as they promoted or sought a workable commercial route linking the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. The discovery of the legendary northern passage proved elusive, but the equivalent land bridges that were built in the form of two transcontinental railroads changed the futures of Canada and the United States.

Eco-Writing in an Age of (Un)Natural Crises

March 2024 320pp 5 illus.

9781478027973 £13.99/ $16.00 PB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Topics covered include people’s treatment of nature in natural disasters, ecocritical understanding of Chinese science fiction, ethnicity in Chinese ecocriticism, religion and the practice of environmental preservation, and the poetics of nature and crisis.

Equality and the City

Urban Innovations for All Citizens Enrique Peñalosa Londoño

The City in the Twenty-First Century

April 2024 312pp

9781512825701 £36.00/ $39.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities. Over the course of his two terms Londoño improved and created more than a thousand public parks. Equality and the City provides practical criteria for conceiving and constructing better cities, the obstacles that are confronted, and identifies ways to overcome them.

Escaping Nature

How to Survive Global Climate Change

Orrin H. Pilkey, Charles O. Pilkey, Linda P. Pilkey-Jarvis, Norma J. Longo, Keith C. Pilkey, Fred B. Dodson, and Hannah L. Hayes

March 2024 320pp 99 illus., including 83 in color

9781478025443 £24.99/ $28.95 PB

9781478020660 £97.00/ $107.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Escaping Nature offers concrete suggestions for how to respond to the threats posed by global climate change, and argues that while we wait for the world’s governments to get serious we can adapt to a hotter world through technological innovations.

Extinction and Religion

Religion and the Human

January 2024 398pp 8 b&w illus.

9780253068477 £40.00/ $45.00 PB

9780253068460 £76.00/ $85.00 HB

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Extinction and Religion is a collection of wide-ranging chapters that explore the implications for religious faith and experience as it relates to a "sixth mass extinction" in Earth's history. Further it seeks to answer the question as to how religious and spiritual practices are shaping responses to the crisis?

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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

The New Nature

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder

Keleman Saxena, & Feifei

Zhou

May 2024 344pp

9781503637320 £25.99/ $30.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Human action has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. This book takes stock of our current planetary crisis, leading readers through a series of genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history.

Geologic Life

Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

Kathryn Yusoff

May 2024 560pp 55 illus.

9781478030300 £32.00/ $36.95 PB

9781478026075 £121.00/ $134.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Examining the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, antiIndigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices.

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries

Davida Siwisa James

April 2024 432pp 128 b&w illus.

9781531506148 £29.99/ $34.95 HB

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country home, George Gershwin wrote his first hit, a young Norman Rockwell discovered he liked to draw, and Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man. Through words and pictures, James explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem.

Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Ian M. Miller

Foreword & Series edited by Paul S. Sutter

March 2024 296pp 9 b&w illus., 4 maps, 5 tables

9780295752877 £25.99/ $32.00 NIP

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Rectifies the omission of China’s forestry models and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.

Global Guyana

Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond

Oneka LaBennett

April 2024 256pp 4 b&w images

9781479827015 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479826995 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Drawing from archival research and oral history, this book exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana. LaBennett employs the powerful analytic of the pointer broom to disentangle the symbiotic relationship between Guyanese women’s gendered labor and global racial capitalism.

Home, Heat, Money, God

Texas and Modern Architecture

Kathryn E. O'Rourke & Ben Koush

May 2024 280pp 264 color photos

9781477328927 £40.00/ $45.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and evolution of architectural modernism in Texas. Illustrated with stunning photographs by architect Ben Koush, Home, Heat, Money, God analyzes buildings in big cities and small towns by world-famous architects, Texas titans, and lesser-known designers and describes the forces that influenced architects as they addressed basic needs.

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How the Earth Feels

Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Dana Luciano

ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

January 2024 256pp 5 illus.

9781478025702 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478020967 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.

Land of Extraction Property, Fracking, and Settler Colonialism

Rebecca R. Scott

March 2024 240pp

9781479821266 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479821259 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extraction unravels the complex web of relationships between humans, places, and the environment, all bound by the concept of private property. It presents a thought-provoking analysis of how settler colonial culture imposes limits on environmental politics.

Nature-First Cities

Restoring

Relationships

with Ecosystems and with Each Other Cam Brewer, Herb Hammond, Sean Markey

Foreword by David Suzuki & Faisal Moola

May 2024 224pp 48 b&w photos, 9 illus., 9 maps

9780774868648 £36.00/ $39.95 PB

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS

Nature belongs in cities, but how do we put nature first without pushing people aside? This practical framework for urban planning reinforces our place in nature both physically and conceptually, by rebalancing our relationships with the planet and with one another.

Just City Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right

Jennifer Baum

April 2024 272pp 37 b&w illus.

9781531506216 £25.99/ $29.95 HB

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Celebrate the legacy of an era when a city was truly a home, when principles of social responsibility thrived. Just City isn’t just a memoir—it’s an invitation to revive the spirit of unity and create a city where everyone belongs. So open its pages and let its words rekindle the flame of a just and inclusive city once more.

Making an African City Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

Jennifer Hart

April 2024 316pp 20 b&w illus.

9780253069337 £40.00/ $45.00 PB

9780253069320 £81.00/ $90.00 HB

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.

Nature, Technology, and Society

The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis

Victor Ferkiss

November 1994 341pp

9780814726174 £29.00 / $30.00 PB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Ferkiss asks the basic questions concerning humans and their relationship to the environment and technology by tracing cultural attitudes towards the environment from early mankind to the present day. This fascinating book is distinctive both in its comprehensiveness, and in its attempt to place side by side influential thinkers and movements with varied views on these issues.

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No More Fossils

Dominic Boyer

Forerunners: Ideas First

October 2023 108pp

9781517916367 £9.00/ $10.00 PB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of the rise of fossil civilization through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oily automobility and plasticity), showing what tethers us to the ecocidal trajectory of petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place.

Oceaning

Governing Marine Life with Drones

Adam Fish Elements

February 2024 248pp 36 illus.

9781478030010 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478025801 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs.

Petroturfing

Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media

Jordan B. Kinder

June 2024 288pp 11 b&w illus.

9781517914332 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781517914325 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Petroturfing presents an incisive look into how Canada’s pro-oil movement has leveraged social media to rebrand the extractive economy as a positive force. Jordan B. Kinder reveals the deep divide between Canada’s environmentally progressive reputation and the economic interests of its layers of government and private companies operating within its borders.

Nonhuman Witnessing

War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World

Michael Richardson

Thought in the Act

February 2024 256pp 28 illus.

9781478025641 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478020905 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building a framework for justice, suggesting that nonhuman witnessing is central to combat contemporary global crises.

On the High Line

The Definitive Guide Annik LaFarge

Foreword by Rick Darke

May 2024 224pp 110 b&w illus.

9781531506117 £21.99/ $24.95 PB

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the park’s opening, this fully revised third editon remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and acclaimed guide to the High Line by the leading expert on the history of the park.

Planting With Purpose

How Farmers Create a Resilient Food Landscape

Stephen Ellingson

March 2024 208pp

9781479820665 £23.99/ $28.00 PB

9781479820641 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

This book delves into the captivating world of local food markets in a “Rust Belt” region of the state, where 51 individuals share their inspiring stories through conversations and interviews. Author Stephen Ellingson explores the intricate web of moral commitments, self-understandings, and emotional experiences that drive and sustain smallscale farming for the local food market.

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Rewilding the Urban Frontier

River Conservation in the Anthropocene

Edited by Greg Gordon

August 2024 342pp 21 photos, 2 illus., 8 maps, index

9781496230614 £58.00/ $65.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Gordon argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene—that is, creating selfsustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.

Seeds of Control

Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea

David Fedman

Foreword by Paul S. Sutter & Series edited by Paul S. Sutter

March 2024 320pp 14 b&w illus., 4 maps, 3 charts

9780295752860 £25.99/ $30.00 NIP

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Wide-ranging study that explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea. This book examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.”

Silicon Valley Imperialism

Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times

Erin McElroy

March 2024 296pp 16 illus.

9781478030218 £23.99/ $27.95 PB

9781478025962 £94.00/ $104.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley techno-capitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents and generating extreme income inequality, in order to expand its reach.

Sea Change

Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada

Edited by Ussif Rashid, Sumaila, Derek Armitage, Megan Bailey & William Cheung

Sustainability and the Environment

April 2024 364pp 7 b&w photos, 18 tables, 18 charts, 10 maps

9780774869041 £44.00/ $49.00 PB

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS

Sea Change reports on the work of the OceanCanada Partnership, a research project to take stock of what we know about Canada’s three oceans, construct scenarios of the future facing coastal regions, and create a national dialogue and vision.

Settler Ecologies

The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya

Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio

April 2024 320pp 15 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps, 3 b&w figures

9781487553616 £23.99 / $32.50 PB

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Settler Ecologies reveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations. From 1st April 2024

Solar Adobe Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture

Albert Narath

March 2024 296pp 56 b&w illus.

9781517914073 £27.99/ $32.95 PB

9781517914066 £118.00/ $132.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

From a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of raw earth materials for building construction emerged in the 1970s. Solar Adobe examines this new wave of architectural experimentation taking place in the United States, detailing how an ancient tradition became a point of convergence for issues of environmentalism, architecture, technology, and Indigenous resistance.

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Solved

How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

David Miller, Bill McKibben, & Anne Hidalgo

April 2024 280pp 9 b&w illus., 18 b&w figures

9781487554569 £16.99 / $22.50 PB

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

David Miller presents a compelling case that significant progress can be made at the local level by replicating the actions of leading cities around the world.

From 1st April 2024

The Beaches

Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood

Richard White

May 2024 160pp 39 b&w illustra�ons, 5 b&w maps

9781487526467 £16.99 / $22.50 PB

9781487508944 £42.00 /$55.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Drawing on extensive research from a multiplicity of sources, this book offers a new, original history of the founding and evolution of an iconic Toronto neighbourhood: the Beaches.

From 1st April 2024

The Fragmentary City Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar

Andrew M. Gardner

May 2024 198pp 17 b&w halftones

9781501775017 £23.99/ $27.95 PB

9781501774980 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences

Subterranean Matters

Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia

Andrea Marston

Elements

February 2024 312pp 22 illus.

9781478025634 £24.99/ $28.95 PB

9781478020899 £97.00/ $107.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining coopera�ves, an economic forma�on that has been a central and contested feature of Bolivian poli�cs and economy.

The City Is Ours Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey

Muna Güvenç

August 2024 258pp 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps

9781501776373 £27.99/ $31.95 PB

9781501774355 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer "wiggle room", turning oppression into chances for dissent and resilience and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical blocs and mobilizations.

The Nebraska Sandhills

Edited by Monica Norby, Judy Diamond, Aaron Sutherlen, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Kim Hachiya, Doug Norby, Michael Forsberg

Foreword by Michael Boehm

April 2024 256pp 184 color photos, 15 b&w photos, 28 color illus., 15 color maps, 2 tables

9781496235831 £29.99/ $34.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Features nearly forty essays about the history, people, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the region.

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The Ocean on Fire

Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists

Anaïs Maurer

April 2024 256pp 12 illus.,

9781478030041 £22.99/ $26.95 PB

9781478024866 £92.00/ $102.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Anaïs Maurer foregrounds Pacific literature as a key archive for surviving and thriving in an environment in which Indigenous inhabitants have been bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century.

There Was Nothing There

Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood

Sara Martucci

May 2024 256pp 24 b&w images

9781479815579 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781479815562 £80.00/ $89.00 HB

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, has undergone significant transformations through cycles of divestment and gentrification. In There Was Nothing There, Sara Martucci draws on four decades of residents’ memories and experiences, providing insights into the tensions, contradictions, and inequalities brought about by gentrification.

This Is Not My World Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb

Adair Rounthwaite

January 2024 296pp 19 color plates

9781517914233 £25.99/ $30.00 PB

9781517914226 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

In the decades leading up to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia, This Is Not My World presents a detailed account of Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private. Focusing its attention on the group’s activities, this book uses artist interviews and extensive documentation of the felt experience of their public interventions.

The Social Lives of Land

Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment

June 2024 372pp 10 b&w halftones, 1 map, 3 charts

9781501771248 £35.00/ $38.95 PB

9781501771231 £112.00/ $125.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Weaves together novel theoretical and empirical insights to analyze how people are living on and with their land. The scholars in this collection uncover histories and focus on rural and urban land.

They Came but Could Not Conquer The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities

Diane J. Purvis

May 2024 336pp 22 photos, 1 map, index

9781496237576 £25.99/ $29.95 PB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

As the environmental justice movement slowly builds momentum, Diane J. Purvis highlights the work of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples in small rural villages who have faced incredible odds throughout history yet have built political clout fueled by vigorous common cause in defense of their homes and livelihood.

Underground Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

Bruce O'Neill

The City in the Twenty-First Century

May 2024 272pp 38 b&w photos

9781512825831 £25.99/ $29.95 PB

9781512825824 £108.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Underground details how tremendous sums of money have been invested to gentrify and provide upwardly mobile residents with space in an unaffordable city center. As cities around the world extend downward in the name of development, new aesthetics of inequality are fundamentally shaping where and how the middle classes fit in the city.

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Unruly Domestication

Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

Kristin Skrabut

May 2024 312pp

9781477329108 £29.99/ $34.95 PB

9781477329092 £94.00/ $105.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Unruly Domestication provides valuable insight into the dynamics of housing and urban development in the Global South, elucidating the most intimate and profound effects of global efforts to do good. The only full-length ethnography written about Lima’s iconic and policy-inspiring shantytowns in thirty years, this book draws on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research.

Wheeling through Toronto

A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders

Albert Koehl

400pp 41 b&w illus., 2 b&w maps, 1 b&w figure

9781487549572 £20.99 / $27.50 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

Highlighting an important yet often ignored part of Toronto’s transportation story, Wheeling through Toronto chronicles the history of the bicycle and reveals a way forward for a world in climate crisis.

From 1st April 2024

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