Geoff Mann (Simon Fraser University) on Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History (links to two reviews below also);
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism
Tyler McCreary (York University) on Anthony Hall’s Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism (links to reviews above and below also);
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Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
Christopher Strunk (University of Minnesota) on Benjamin Dangl’s Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America (links to two reviews above also);
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Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development
Matthew Sparke (University of Washington), Vicky Lawson (University of Washington), Katharine Rankin (University of Toronto), Michael Watts (University of California, Berkeley), and Stephen Young...
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Book review symposium – Brenda Parker’s “Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee”
Thanks to Heather McLean (University of Glasgow) we’re able to present here a superb series of engagements with Brenda Parker’s Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban...
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Book review – “The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives”, “The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert” and “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being”
Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6875-5 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-8223-6897-7 (paper) Eyal...
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Book review – Paul Richards’ “Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic” (Zed Books, 2016)
Paul Richards, Ebola: How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic, London: Zed Books, 2016. ISBN: 9781783608591 (cloth); ISBN: 9781783608584; ISBN: 9781783608614 (ebook) Black Mirror: Did...
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Book review – Adam Mayer’s Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria (Pluto Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Michael Watts (Department of Geography, UC Berkeley) It is a striking irony that while Marxian ideas were omnipresent in serious intellectual and political circles across the African...
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Authors Meet Critics: Harald Bauder’s Migration Borders Freedom and Pierpaolo Mudu and Sutapa Chattopadhyay’s Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy
Authors Meet Critics Migration Borders Freedom By Harald Bauder Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy Edited by Pierpaolo Mudu and Sutapa Chattopadhyay American Association of Geographers 2017...
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Book review symposium – Rebecca Kinney’s “Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier”
Editor’s introduction In the opening chapter of Rebecca Kinney’s Beautiful Wasteland, a book focused on the dissection of the narrative of a new Detroit, a decade of hype and hope, she offers...
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