Virtual Exhibit Hub: American Association of Geographers 2023
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- Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring
- An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
- A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring
- Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
- Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring
- Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
- Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
- Dead Labor Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death James Tyner 2019 Spring
- A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
- Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring
- Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
- The Rent of Form Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age Pedro Fiori Arantes 2018 Fall
- A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades
- The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
- Constructing Imperial Berlin Photography and the Metropolis Miriam Paeslack 2018 Fall
- How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
- Another Mother Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, Editors 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
- None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall
- How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
- Gringolandia Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism Matthew Hayes 2018 Fall
- A telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city
- The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall
- How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
- Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
- A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
- Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall
- A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
- Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall
- Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
- The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall
- A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
- Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall
- How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
- The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
- The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall
- How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
- Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall
- The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
- Heidegger Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics Michael Marder 2018 Fall
- Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
- Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall
- A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
- 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall
- A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
- The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall
- An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
- Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall
- How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
- Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall
- A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
- Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle Joshua Sbicca 2018 Fall
- A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
- Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring
- The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
- Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring
- A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota
- With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring
- Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
- The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring
- A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
- Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring
- A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
- Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring
- Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
- The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring
- Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
- Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring
- A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
- After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
- The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
- Carving Out the Commons Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. Amanda Huron 2018 Spring
- An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
- Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring
- Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
- The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring
- Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
- What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring
- A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
- Deconstruction Machines Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Justin Joque 2018 Spring
- A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
- The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring
- An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
- Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall
- Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin
- Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
- Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall
- A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
- Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
- Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
- Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
- Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall
- On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other
- New Lines Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map Matthew W. Wilson 2017 Fall
- A provocative critique of Geographic Information Science
- A House of Prayer for All People Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church David K. Seitz 2017 Fall
- Revealing the underappreciated progressive contributions of a liberal LGBT church
- Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
- Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
- Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
- Being Together in Place Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson 2017 Fall
- How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world
- When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
- The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall
- A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community
- Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
- Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
- Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall
- Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
- Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
- Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall
- Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
- The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall
- An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
- Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak 2017 Spring
- A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada
- A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
- Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of Unilateral Unification Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 2017 Spring
- Reveals the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city
- Shopping Town Designing the City in Suburban America Victor Gruen Anette Baldauf, Editor 2017 Spring
- For the first time in English, the “father of the shopping mall” tells his life story
- Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
- From Light to Dark Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom Tim Edensor 2017 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space
- Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
- Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
- Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
- Compound Solutions Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health Susan Craddock 2017 Spring
- An unprecedented look at the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian drug development
- Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring
- A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
- Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
- California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall
- How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
- Marxist Thought and the City Henri Lefebvre 2016 Fall
- For the first time in English, Lefebvre’s essential work on how Marx and Engels conceptualized the development of the city
- Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall
- Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine
- Life, Emergent The Social in the Afterlives of Violence Yasmeen Arif 2016 Fall
- Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence
- Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
- For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall
- Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state
- Beautiful Wasteland The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier Rebecca J. Kinney 2016 Fall
- What is the “new Detroit” that everyone keeps talking about?
- A Curriculum of Fear Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools Nicole Nguyen 2016 Fall
- Winner: American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
- Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Ian G. R. Shaw 2016 Fall
- How a brave new world of robotic surveillance is reshaping the state, society, and our very humanity
- The Anarchist Roots of Geography Toward Spatial Emancipation Simon Springer 2016 Fall
- A passionate plea for radical geographers to abandon Karl Marx and embrace anarchism
- The Rule of Logistics Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment Jesse LeCavalier 2016 Spring
- How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time
- The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring
- Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration
- Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
- DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring
- When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
- Building Dignified Worlds Geographies of Collective Action Gerda Roelvink 2016 Spring
- Long before the Occupy movement, contemporary collectives have been constructing surprising alternative economies
- Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring
- How sensors are changing our environmental relationships
- Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall
- How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
- The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall
- How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
- Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring
- What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
- Making Other Worlds Possible Performing Diverse Economies Gerda Roelvink, Kevin St. Martin and J. K. Gibson-Graham, Editors 2015 Spring
- Rethinking economy to produce resilient communities
- Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring
- Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins
- Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring
- Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
- The Deadly Life of Logistics Mapping Violence in Global Trade Deborah Cowen 2014 Fall
- A genealogy of logistics, tracing the link between markets and militaries, territory and government
- Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 Fall
- Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance