Geography Sale: Anthropology
Virtual space for attendees and those interested in the American Association of Geographers. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNAAG23. Code expires June 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
GEOGRAPHY // ANTHROPOLOGY // SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
RACE // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // ENVIRONMENT
PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL SCIENCE // THEORY // POSTHUMANITIES
ETHNOGRAPHY // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // GLOBALIZATION
HEALTH AND MEDICINE // URBAN STUDIES // HUMAN RIGHTS
GLBT AND GENDER STUDIES // ECONOMY // DIGITAL CULTURE
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN // HENRI LEFEBVRE
- Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
- Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
- Rough Metaphysics The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts Peter Skafish 2023 Spring
- A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas
- Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring
- Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
- Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
- Native Agency Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Valerie Lambert 2022 Fall
- What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?
- Castoffs of Capital Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh Lamia Karim 2022 Fall
- Dispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry
- Meaningless Citizenship Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State Sally Wesley Bonet 2022 Fall
- A searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation
- Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall
- An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution
- Afro-Sweden Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country Ryan Thomas Skinner 2022 Fall
- A compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diaspora
- Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
- On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
- The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall
- Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
- Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
- Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
- Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall
- A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
- The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith 2021 Spring
- How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life
- Batman Saves the Congo How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 2021 Spring
- How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space
- Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
- Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall
- A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations
- Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall
- How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
- Scammer’s Yard The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis 2020 Fall
- Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair
- Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
- Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring
- Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
- On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
- Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring
- Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
- Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring
- A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics
- Fair Trade Rebels Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas Lindsay Naylor 2019 Fall
- Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade
- From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall
- Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne
- The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall
- Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
- Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
- Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring
- A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human Stuart McLean 2017 Fall
- On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- Compound Solutions Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health Susan Craddock 2017 Spring
- An unprecedented look at the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian drug development
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring
- Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins
- Building a House in Heaven Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt Mona Atia 2013 Fall
- The merging of religion, capitalism, and politics in Islamic charities in Egypt
- Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall
- How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
- Degraded Work The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market Marc Doussard 2013 Fall
- Why service-sector jobs have gotten worse—and what can be done to improve pay and working conditions for low-wage workers
- Families Apart Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love Geraldine Pratt 2012 Spring
- How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited
- Swamplife People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden 2011 Spring
- Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades
- Seeking Asylum Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border Alison Mountz 2010 Spring
- How human smuggling illuminates the complexities of immigration policies and laws
- Growing up Global Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives Cindi Katz 2004 Fall
- How globalization is remade and internalized in children’s everyday lives