4S: Geography
Web sale for those interested in science and technology studies and/or attendees of the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below qualify for 40% off and free domestic shipping using code MN4S23. Code expires December 15, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
- Cultivating Livability Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru Camille Frazier 2024 Spring
- What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation
- Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation Audra Mitchell 2023 Fall
- Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
- Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
- Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
- The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
- 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
- Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall
- A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring
- How sensors are changing our environmental relationships
- Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring
- Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins