A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Hudani demonstrates the importance of theorizing repair, enabling us to spatialize a Levinasian ethics of the neighbor, in the aftermath of traumatic events ranging from mass killings to large-scale dispossession.
The Right to Be Counted offers a compelling analysis of citizenship struggles of the urban poor in contemporary times.
E Cram's Violent Inheritance mobilizes a network of energy grammars and analytics to argue for another story of sexual modernity, one that accounts for the body as ecological and administered by, and producing in turn, racial and sexualized value in the North American West.
Although focused on buildings that have since been destroyed, the tone of this genealogy is not mournful. It instead is generative, revealing the creative outputs that have emerged and continue to shape this district. It demonstrates how architecture transforms and is transformed by a range of living and nonliving agents.
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.
Arc of the Journeyman, by Nichola Khan, explores motile logics and Afghan migrant subjectivities. This book will appeal to those with an interest in life, language, and representation; theory as practice; style as substance; suffering as compound (not cumulative); and histories as recursive.
By focusing on Israel-Palestine, Irit Katz’s The Common Camp offers a sophisticated analysis of how camps are used not only for confining and containing undesirables but also for expansion and protection of settler populations in colonial contexts.
In Hi'ilei Hobart's sparkling debut manuscript Cooling the Tropics, she offers a critical and unique re-reading of ice as a comestible in Hawai'i and how it intersects with spatial, anticolonial, and imperial politics of cold and temperature.