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Various covers of books featured on AAG's 2025 Fall books list.

The leaves are starting to fall, and there’s no better time to curl up with a book. 🍂 📚 Looking for recommendations? Check out AAG’s 2025 Fall New Books for Geographers list: buff.ly/dztAWb9

#GeoSky #GISChat #ClimateSky #NewBooks

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Beautiful! Is the camera RGB only, or does it have IR and/or thermal?

It seems timely that the AAG Review of Books just published a review of Who Is Government? ed. by Michael Lewis. Many public servants cope with employment uncertainty and hostile agency heads, but they are also dedicated people committed to American excellence.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Death and glory: the politics of the World Cup World Cup fever is a strange affliction. It’s more contagious and unavoidable than Covid, and more widespread too: each new World Cup, as Simon Kuper writes, ‘becomes the biggest media event in histor...

'Kuper is an excellent guide… his book is filled with memorable vignettes'

Happy publication day to @simonkuper.bsky.social's entertaining meditation on football's biggest tournament, #WorldCupFever. Check out this @thespectator1828.bsky.social review below ⚽️🏆

UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...

@akahrl.bsky.social @docdantzler.bsky.social @jtsphd.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Review of The Black Tax now in the AAG Review of Books
The power to tax is intertwined with the origin of the US. Founding documents proclaimed that governments were instituted to secure life, liberty, and property. What happens when that promise goes wrong?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Revisions for the paperback edition of #FeedingWashingtonsArmy @uncpress.bsky.social submitted & accepted. Look for it in February 2026.

This is an important book and young scholar!

New forum in the AAG Review of Books: Confronting Climate Coloniality, ed. by @farhanasultana.com
A great conversation about the challenge “to mitigate climate change while ameliorating the inequities and injustices with which it is intertwined.”

Screenshot of the journal abstract. Click the link to learn more.

Assumed as a component of struggles around social reproduction, Black self-defense challenges existing social relations emerging from and reproducing racialized uneven development. Edgett assesses geographies of insurgency and counterinsurgency amongst this development in Atlanta. buff.ly/JfQJbKl

This book sounds incredibly interesting. Great stuff from Duke University Press recently.

Psst… you kids wanna review some Foucault?

Noisy Memory: Music from the Book, by Brian Harnetty 15 track album

I’ve released a compilation of music that is from my book “Noisy Memory” — It features music that I’ve made over the past two decades. You can find it on Bandcamp: brianharnetty.bandcamp.com/album/noisy-...

Hodl

When NDVI Falls Short and the Role of EVI, SAVI and Other Indices Whether you look to the monitoring of farmlands, forests, urban areas, water resources, or even mining, in every one of these places, you’ll find remote sensing. But you’ll also find something else…

🌱🌍📊 W+Geo’s Rose Njambi examines the limitations of NDVI—and how advanced indices like EVI, SAVI, & others provide sharper insight for vegetation monitoring.
geohubkenya.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/w...

Cover of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession by Jodi Byrd. The cover art features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in flight are depicted.

In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8

New book, pls review
This looks like an amazing read

Various covers of books featured on the new books list.

Kick your feet up with a book from AAG’s New Books for Geographers Summer 2025 list. Our quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to #geographers includes a diverse range of topics that represent the breadth of the discipline. buff.ly/9AUVFwB #GeoSky #GISChat #NewBooks

Under Pressure: A Song by David Bowie and Queen Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Have you ever wondered what this world is about? What Durkheim, Lefebvre, Freddie Mercury, and David Bowie have in common? How place and time shape anthemic musical compositions? Check out Ola Johansson’s review of Under Pressure and find out!

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Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds.
"Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories"
- Oxford University Press, November 2025
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

There’s more to the Sahara than emptiness and badlands Getting to Timbuktu is not easy. When I travelled from the Malian capital, Bamako, to the remote Saharan city a quarter of a century ago, it took several

'Fascinating ... much of the two decades’ worth of admirable research on which it is based would simply not be possible today'

A brilliant review in @thetls.bsky.social for #ShiftingSands: A Human History of the Sahara by Judith Scheele.

A rectangular graphic with an ancient map background. In the middle is the paperback packshot Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson. The text on the ecard reads, 'EXPLORE OUR WORLD THROUGH 30 UNSEEN BOUNDARIES'. The Profile Books logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.

Take a journey with geographer Maxim Samson to explore the world's unseen boundaries, from the Malaria Belt to Tornado Alley... 🗺️

#InvisibleLines publishes in paperback today: tinyurl.com/InvisibleLinesPB

Sarah Simeonoff at CU Boulder provided a wonderful review of this book for the AAG Review of Books journal. Available online now, and publishing in the next issue (insider tip: the editor selected it for open access)

Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment ‘This brilliant volume comprehensively explains how and why social networks are so critical to help society address environmental challenges, including the climate crisis. It significantly extends pre...

📣 Exciting news: The 'Handbook of Social Networks & the Environment' - co-edited with the brilliant Örjan Bodin - is now out!

Access here: 🌐 tinyurl.com/hb2cz9er

Very important book publishing next month:

"The Light of Tabor: Toward a Monistic Christology"
by David Bentley Hart

undpress.nd.edu/978026821041...

We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan

We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

- Carl Sagan

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