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