Geography Sale: Political Science
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
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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring
- Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
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Expelling Public Schools How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark John Arena 2023 Spring
- Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system
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Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring
- Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
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The Quiet Violence of Empire How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan Wesley Attewell 2023 Spring
- How the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development
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Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
- The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
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The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
- Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
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The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
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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
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Webbed Connectivities The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Vrushali Patil 2022 Fall
- Constructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference
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Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall
- A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
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A Voice but No Power Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis David Forrest 2022 Fall
- Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession
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The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring
- Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond
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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring
- A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work
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The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall
- Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
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Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring
- Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions
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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
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Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners
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The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
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As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring
- How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
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Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
- Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
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Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall
- Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
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Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukhrov 2020 Spring
- A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory
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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
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Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring
- A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today
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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
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Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall
- The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
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Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring
- Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life
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Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall
- A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
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Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring
- The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
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Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring
- A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring
- A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
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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
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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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
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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
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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
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Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
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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
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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
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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
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Building Dignified Worlds Geographies of Collective Action Gerda Roelvink 2016 Spring
- Long before the Occupy movement, contemporary collectives have been constructing surprising alternative economies
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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
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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
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Corporate Sovereignty Law and Government under Capitalism Joshua Barkan 2013 Fall
- Corporate power to govern life is increasing not because regulation has failed but because it has succeeded
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Take Back the Economy An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy 2013 Spring
- An accessible guide to demystifying the economy and creating a more just and sustainable world
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Hot Spotter’s Report Military Fables of Toxic Waste Shiloh R. Krupar 2013 Spring
- How biopolitical militarism in the U.S. obscures the domestic remains of war
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Everyday Environmentalism Creating an Urban Political Ecology Alex Loftus 2012 Spring
- A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
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Seeking Asylum Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border Alison Mountz 2010 Spring
- How human smuggling illuminates the complexities of immigration policies and laws
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Seeking Spatial Justice Edward W. Soja 2010 Spring
- An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live
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Terror and Territory The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty Stuart Elden 2009 Fall
- A timely analysis of the contemporary state of territory
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State, Space, World Selected Essays Henri Lefebvre Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden 2009 Spring
- Leading intellectual Henri Lefebvre on political and state theory
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A Postcapitalist Politics J. K. Gibson-Graham 2006 Spring
- Presents compelling alternatives to capitalism—and strategies for achieving them
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The Urban Revolution Henri Lefebvre 2003 Spring
- The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience
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The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
- The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics