Geographers, it would seem, have come late to studies of "the left." Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift find the left in desperate straits and in even more desperate need of some serious theoretical rejuvenation.

In "Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography", Rob Sullivan argues that speech act theory and the performative can be applied to geography. Speech act theory and performance are familiar subjects within critical theory and the humanities, with a modern lineage spanning back to the mid-twentieth century.

This book is not a manual of research techniques but a revelation of thought processes, the single exception being a hilarious account of her first experiment in fieldwork, when she and her artist sister joined a circus and learned valuable lessons about informal power structures, including that if you get too close to one “good” informant, no one else will tell you much.

In this book, Malabou urges us to think about the event-ality of a destructive event and uses the example of neurological trauma to capture the ‘unheard’ history of the subject. She presents an ontology of becoming, but a becoming that does not belong to the positive connotations of plasticity.

In this collection of essays about the ways in which over the centuries a region and attached identity were imagined for the people and places now broadly labeled as the Marche (‘Marches’ in English) of Italy east of the Apennines from Umbria, Giorgio Mangani shows that this was often a self-conscious act of promotion and celebration by local and regional elites and local populations alike.