Author Archives: stuartelden

Thomas M. Wilson ed. Border Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach – Edward Elgar, August 2025 Very expensive hardback only, unfortunately, but e-book also available. This multidisciplinary book provides a diverse overview of social science approaches to geopolitical borders, social boundaries and … Continue reading →

Matthew Clayton, Independence for Children – Oxford University Press, March 2025 Independence for Children presents an alternative conception of parenting to those that have dominated our thinking about children and the family to date. It offers an elaboration and defence of … Continue reading →

Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way – University of Chicago Press, October 2025 The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves … Continue reading →

Herbert S. Lewis, Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology – Berghahn Books, December 2024 The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and … Continue reading →

Vicki Squire, Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Precarious Migration – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Agonistic Condition: Materialism and Democracy – Edinburgh University Press, June 2025

Alison Mountz & Kira Williams, Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard – MIT Press, July 2025 (print and open access) An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University’s geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia … Continue reading →