Jensen, an author already well known for his influence on debates in mobilities studies, assembles here some of his most important arguments under the rubric of a ‘staged’ approach to understanding the way in which people, ideas and technologies move. This volume is the first in a series of books to be published and it provides an introductory theoretical approach alongside case studies that illustrate its application. In the book Jensen, a urban theorist, arguably provides an innovative and original slant on understanding mobilities in the twenty-first century.

Throughout the book examples from philosophy, literature, film or video games are used to draw out the strange implications of the tension between internality and externality of the abyssal dynamism of the ground and its agencies. The author begins his investigation by discussing the importance to think about decay, rotting, digging, and other planetary demolishment as forces of abyssal dynamism of ground.

Cities: An Environmental History by Ian Douglas is therefore a welcome reflection on a wide range of urban environmental issues. The title is somewhat misleading; this is not really a ‘history’ with a clearly periodised metanarrative that traces the evolution of urban environments. Instead, the book is structured around thematic chapters that cover an impressive range of issues.

The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? is partly the product of panels at a series of conventions, including International Studies Association meetings and EU-funded workshops. The five chapters (plus introduction) by the editor offer a book within the book, developing an argument about the social basis of revivals of geopolitics in Europe.

This volume groups sixteen papers written by Argentinean researchers from geography, as well as history, anthropology, literature, and art history. All the authors try to answer, from various points of view and using different examples, questions such as: What is the relationship between space, territory and their various forms of representation? How do these representations persuade, teach, argue, and even deceive?

The book’s subject matter is Western classical music in historical Palestine. Beckles Willson is not so much interested in musical pieces themselves; her focus is on musical projects, or what she rightly calls, musical missions—projects aimed at researching music, teaching music, setting up orchestras, and opening conservatories.

In this optimistic collection of essays, written over twenty years, Michael E. Gardiner sets out to “rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism” (page 2). In so doing, he provides an engaging re-reading of key writers and traditions able to help us deepen our understanding of utopian social theory and its relationship to the everyday.

In this piece we wish to emphasise that the kind of practices the move to declare cetaceans ‘non-human persons’ engenders are decidedly exceptionalist and reiterate the binomial logic of Human and Animal. What more-than-human and multispecies scholarship calls for, then, would be relational legislation grounded in relational ethics.

Bringing together themes from the discourses around "new materialism" and "postcolonial ecologies," Allewaert weaves her narrative around the colonial anxiety that Europeans would become "a different kind of organization of matter and thus a different kind of being" in more extreme climates (2013: 4). In this she is guided by the human-nature interplay in Ariel’s song (especially the "Full Fathom Five" stanza), which serves as a prompt for reinterpretations of references to bodily dismemberment, intrusion and convergence as a potential for resistance to imperialist and capitalist projects.

Peter Kraftl’s Geographies of Alternative Education is a book with two main aims. The first is to reveal the spatialities of alternative learning, a task that contributes uniquely to both educational and geographical research. The second is to ask "What is alternative in these learning spaces?".