International Studies Sale: Geography

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS

All books below are 40% off using code MN89010. Code expires June 1, 2022.

BROWSE BOOKS:

GEOGRAPHY // ANTHROPOLOGY // SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

RACE // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // ENVIRONMENT

PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL SCIENCE // THEORY

ETHNOGRAPHY // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // GLOBALIZATION

HEALTH AND MEDICINE // URBAN STUDIES // HUMAN RIGHTS

GLBT AND GENDER STUDIES // ECONOMY

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN // GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITY SERIES

BACK TO ALL BOOKS ON SALE

The Solidarity Economy Jean-Louis Laville 2023 Spring: Questioning the boundaries between politics and economics
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
Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring: Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring: A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
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
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic Charlotte Wrigley 2023 Spring: Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring: The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
Settling the Boom The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Editors 2022 Fall: Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom
African Meditations Felwine Sarr 2022 Fall: An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on his native Senegal after years of study abroad
Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall: An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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
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
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
Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring: How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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
Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring: A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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
The Alienated Subject On the Capacity to Hurt James A. Tyner 2022 Spring: A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy
Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall: Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
For a New Geography Milton Santos 2021 Fall: For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall: A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
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
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
The Migrant’s Paradox Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall 2021 Spring: Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring: Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring: From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall: Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
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
The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring: Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
Chasing World-Class Urbanism Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires Jacob Lederman 2020 Fall: Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers
Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring: Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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
Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall: A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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
Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring: Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism
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
Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring: A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States
Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall: A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring: From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring: A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
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
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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
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
Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring: A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
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
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
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
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
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
Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring: A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
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
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
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
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
Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring: How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates
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
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
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
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
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
Landscapes of Fear Yi-Fu Tuan 2013 Spring: A landmark study of fear from one of our most eminent thinkers
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
Everyday Environmentalism Creating an Urban Political Ecology Alex Loftus 2012 Spring: A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
Governing the Wild Ecotours of Power Stephanie Rutherford 2011 Fall: Shows how iconic representations of nature—from museum to theme park—define our ideas about saving the natural world
Henri Lefebvre on Space Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory Łukasz Stanek 2011 Spring: Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology
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
Seeking Spatial Justice Edward W. Soja 2010 Spring: An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live
Terror and Territory The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty Stuart Elden 2009 Fall: A timely analysis of the contemporary state of territory
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
Demonic Grounds Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle Katherine McKittrick 2006 Spring: Explores how black women’s geographies are meaningful sites of political opposition
A Postcapitalist Politics J. K. Gibson-Graham 2006 Spring: Presents compelling alternatives to capitalism—and strategies for achieving them
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
The Urban Revolution Henri Lefebvre 2003 Spring: The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience
Space and Place The Perspective of Experience Yi-Fu Tuan 2001 Spring: On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography.
Space, Place, and Gender Doreen Massey 1994 Fall: A leading feminist geographer puts forth new ways of thinking about space and place.