A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility by Andrea Noelani Brower offers a powerful critique of Hawaiʻi's GMO industry that gives us a roadmap for liberation, solidarity, and abundance in the face of corporate dominance.
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility by Andrea Noelani Brower offers a powerful critique of Hawaiʻi's GMO industry that gives us a roadmap for liberation, solidarity, and abundance in the face of corporate dominance.
Black Disability Politics is a critical intervention in a field that remains tethered to white ways of knowing and being.
Byler finds that what’s going on in Xinjiang is not only violation of rights, nor simply authoritarianism, racism or Islamophobia, but rather the production and conquering of a new, colonial frontier of ethno-racialized global capitalism.
In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and argues for measuring social movements’ impact in a manner that foregrounds the production the brick-and-mortar achievements of community organizations, as well as the networks of support, solidarity and care that those sites and landscapes continue to facilitate.
In Animal Traffic, Rosemary-Claire Collard combines Marxist theory with animal studies to offer a powerful analysis of how capitalism structures human-animal relations, and what the “oddity” (2020: 8) of the exotic pet case can teach us about our more common relations with animals.
Citizen Designs is a careful depiction of what democracy feels like, with all its discomforts, disagreements, and unresolved tensions. Elinoff manages to present a picture of the struggle for equal citizenship that is at once optimistic and unromantic. In this, the book makes a timely and important contribution to understandings of the relationship between politics and design
Though not an exhaustive list, these are many of the main areas we cover.