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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 7d

"Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for a great forum! It’s a truly excellent contribution to the journal

Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 20d

New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books,
with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social

@campolis.bsky.social

Link below👇:

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 21d

“This book…serves as an important reminder that geography…has a responsibility and ethical imperative to use the scope of its resources…to serve the needs of all its members and protect those who are most marginal and at risk of being silenced.”
Review by Emily Murai
doi.org/10.1080/2325...

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to Tithi Bhattacharya whose "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence" has been named the winner of the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History from @historians.org.
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Cover of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya. Cover features a black background. An etching in light green portrays an inidvidual standing before a monster with large teeth and reptilian limbs. The individual appears to be holding a small flag or some other small object in front of the monster's face.

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 28d

The history of cricket is tied to colonialism, culture, and domestic and international politics. Test cricket is “the most conservative form of the most conservative sport.” Check out Dominic Malcolm’s review of Tim Wigmore’s new book in the AAG Review of Books.
doi.org/10.1080/2325...

American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · Oct 6

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

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

Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Oct 3

📢 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

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

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Oct 2

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

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Oct 2

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....

Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · Oct 2

'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 ⚽️🏆

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...

www.spectator.co.uk

University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · Oct 1

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...

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Sep 23

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

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Sep 23

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....

Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 18

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Elsewhere Is Black" by Marisa Solomon, which examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. buff.ly/9QT71r8

Cover of The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life by Marisa Solomon. The cover features a sculpture by Curtis Cuffie. The sculpture is tall and eclectic. It is made of colorful, found materials—fabrics, ropes, tinsel, and various discarded objects—stacked and draped over a pole in an outdoor urban setting under a cloudy sky. A parking meter tagged with graffiti is visible on the right.

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Sep 16

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.”

American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8

$Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.$

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8

$Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.$

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Psst… you kids wanna review some Foucault?

Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Now available! This book presents Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on Binswanger and existential analysis for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development. buff.ly/AI7UdbE #Philosophy #TranslationMonth

Now available. It includes the cover of Binswanger and Existential Analysis by Michel Foucault, and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu

Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Now available! This book presents Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on Binswanger and existential analysis for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development. buff.ly/AI7UdbE #Philosophy #TranslationMonth

Brian Harnetty @bharnetty.bsky.social · Sep 2

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-...

Noisy Memory: Music from the Book, by Brian Harnetty

15 track album

brianharnetty.bandcamp.com

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hodl

Women+ in Geospatial @geospatialwomen.bsky.social · Sep 2

🌱🌍📊 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...

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…

geohubkenya.wordpress.com

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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.

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Aug 20

New book, pls review
This looks like an amazing read

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Aug 20

Save 30% on #NewBook "Alive in the Sound" by Ronald Radano, which proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities—spirit, soul, and groove.

Cover of Alive in the Sound: Black Music as Counterhistory by Ronald Radano. The title is displayed in large, spaced-out capital letters in cream and white against a dark blue gradient background. Below the subtitle is a metallic music box cylinder, viewed from the front, with numerous pins sticking out, evoking mechanical sound production. The author’s name appears at the bottom in bold, light blue text.

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Aug 20

Save 30% on #NewBook "Alive in the Sound" by Ronald Radano, which proposes a new understanding of US Black music by focusing on the key matter of value, manifested musically in its seemingly embodied qualities—spirit, soul, and groove.

American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

Various covers of books featured on the new books list.

Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · Aug 18

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!

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

Under Pressure: A Song by David Bowie and Queen

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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