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Emmanuelle Loyer, Lévi-Strauss: A Biography – Polity, 2018, translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
My study of George Canguilhem for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series is now released in the UK in both hardback and paperback. It should be available in North America and worldwide over the next couple…

Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and its History – University of Chicago Press, April 2019 Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and … Continue reading →

Christopher P. Heuer, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image – Zone, May 2019 European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for … Continue reading →

Trevor Barnes and Eric Sheppard (eds.), Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond – Wiley/Antipode 2019 (two excerpts available) A wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond. Includes contributions from … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019, 6.30-8pm A panel discussion looking at both material and imagined borders, and the ways in which global warming challenges Western conceptions of territory. In…