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New Books in Geography

Interviews with Geographers about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

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Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of trans... Read more

11 Aug 2023

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Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)

Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)

For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source s... Read more

6 Aug 2023

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António Tomás, "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" (Duke UP, 2022)

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Linda J. Seligmann, "Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands" (U Illinois Press, 2022)

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