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Volume 10, Issue 4
Pages: i1-i65
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Data Power: Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance
Jim E. Thatcher and Craig M. Dalton. London: Pluto Press, 2022. xii and 163 pp., 17 figures, 2 tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-7453-4007-4); $96.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7453-4008-1); $24.00 electronic (ISBN 978-1-786805-56-0).
Sam Hind
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures
Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, and Brett Story, eds. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2020. 289 pp., halftones, maps, tables. $39.95 (ISBN 978-00774862387).
Rob Kitchin
Pages: 4-5
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age
Alexander R. Galloway. London: Verso, 2021. vx and 263 pp., illustrations, notes, index. $26.95 cloth (ISBN 9781839763984); $26.95 electronic (ISBN 9781839764004).
Thomas Dekeyser
Pages: 6-8
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Cycling Societies: Innovations, Inequalities and Governance
Dennis Zuev, Katerina Psarikidou, and Cosmin Popan, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. xxii and 296 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $37.59 paper (ISBN 9780367336615); $128.00 cloth (ISBN 9780367336608); $37.56 electronic (ISBN 9780429321092).
Paola Castañeda
Pages: 9-11
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible
Arturo Escobar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 231 pp. $25.95 paper (ISBN 9781478008460); $99.95 cloth (ISBN 9781478007937); $16.23 electronic (ISBN 9781478012108).
Sandie Suchet-Pearson
Pages: 12-13
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Ecocene Politics
Mihnea Tănăsescu. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022. 195 + viii pp. Paperback (ISBN 9781800643147); cloth (ISBN 9781800643154); PDF (ISBN 9781800643161); e-book (ISBN 9781800643178). show [zaq no="AQ1"]
Noel Castree
Pages: 14-16
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance
Matthew C. Canfield. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 280 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $26.00 paper (ISBN 9781503631304); $85.00 cloth (ISBN 9781503613447); $26.00 electronic (ISBN 9781503631311).
Amy Trauger
Pages: 17-18
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology
Mick Smith and Jason Young. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. xiv and 113 pp., footnotes, and bibliography. $10.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-5179-1320-5); $4.95 electronic (ISBN 978-1-4529-6706-6).
Noel Castree
Pages: 19-21
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia–Vietnam Borderlands
Sango Mahanty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. xvii and 174 pp., preface, acknowledgment, figures, tables, notes, references, index. $28.95 paper (ISBN 9781501761485); $125.00 cloth (ISBN 9781501761478); $18.99 electronic (ISBN 9781501761492).
Timothy Gorman
Pages: 22-23
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance
Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen, eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020. vii and 237 pp., notes, illustrations, bibliography. $30.00 paper (ISBN 978023118593); $90.00 cloth (ISBN 97890231185387); $29.99 electronic (ISBN 9780231546133).
Anthony King
Pages: 24-25
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
Ed Simon. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2021. 182 pp. $16.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-948742-94-4).
Michael R. Glass
Pages: 26-28
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials
Urvashi Kuhad. New Delhi, India: Routledge, 2022. 188 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $12.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-032-25022-9); $37.16 electronic (ISBN 978-1-003-05832-8).
Argha Basu & Priyanka Tripathi
Pages: 29-32
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Pollution is Colonialism; Feminist Queer Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive
Max Liboiron. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. xiii and 216 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $94.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4780-1322-8); $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4780-1413-3); $19.54 electronic (ISBN B0913LJBKS). Feminist Queer Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive. Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Sue Reid, Pia van Gelder, Astrida Neimanis, eds. London, UK: Open Humanities Press, 2021. 241 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $18.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-78542-067-2); $00.00 electronic (ISBN 978-1-78542-066-5).
Sasha Engelmann
Pages: 33-35
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology; How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
John Bellamy Foster. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2020. 672 pp., notes, index. $28.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-58367-928-9); $45.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-58367-836-7); $23.00 electronic (ISBN 978-1-58367-837-4). How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens. Hillary Angelo. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 264 pp., illustrations, notes. $30.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-22673-904-5); $95.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-22673-899-4); $29.99 electronic (ISBN 978-022673-918-2).
Thomas Brasdefer
Pages: 36-39
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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How Spaces become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories; Co-Crafting the Just City: Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor
John F. Forester, ed. New York, NY: New Village Press, 2021. xvi and 340 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 paper (ISBN 9781613321423); $89.00 cloth (ISBN 9781613321430); $16.50 electronic (ISBN 9781613321447). Co-Crafting the Just City: Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor. James A. Throgmorton. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. xi and 225 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 paper (ISBN 9780367751043); $160.00 cloth (ISBN 9780367751050); $35.95 electronic (ISBN 9781003160991).
Robert W. Lake
Pages: 40-42
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space
Matthew Gandy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. xiv + 416 pp. $30.00 (ISBN 9780262046282).
Dawn Day Biehler, Julian Agyeman, Stephanie Wakefield, Marion Ernwein & Matthew Gandy
Pages: 43-51
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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Diverging Spaces for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
Akira Drake Rodriguez. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2021. 268 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $114.95 cloth (ISBN 9-780-8203-5951-9); $36.95 paper (ISBN 9-780-8203-5952-6).
LaToya E. Eaves, Deshonay Dozier, Ashanté Reese, Celeste Winston, AbdouMaliq Simone, D. Asher Ghertner & Akira Drake Rodriguez
Pages: 52-65
Published online: 07 Oct 2022
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