A/Prof Kate Booth
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Human geographer posting about climate, insurance, inequity, and the most challenging and controversial predicament of our times - global collapse. #InCollapse
The fourth book I’m reading this month is The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (2021).
Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?
Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The fourth book I’m reading this month is The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (2021).
Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?
Some of Greer's language and framings are now dated and unacceptable; she appears to lack empathy and understanding of lived experience in all its diversity. So why read this book, 55 years on?
Third cab off the rank – I’m reading David Graeber’s (2014) Debt.
Three reasons why this book is on my list:
Three reasons why this book is on my list:
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Third cab off the rank – I’m reading David Graeber’s (2014) Debt.
Three reasons why this book is on my list:
Three reasons why this book is on my list:
My second book is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Engels Friedrich (2010) – the manifesto itself and an introduction and notes.
In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.
In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
My second book is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Engels Friedrich (2010) – the manifesto itself and an introduction and notes.
In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.
In the 21st century, why on earth am I reading The Communist Manifesto?!! Here are three reasons, which I’m sure others can add too.
In modern academic life, reading a whole book is a radical act. Unfortunate, but true. So, I’ve dedicated the next 4 weeks to reading.
My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.
Why read this book?
My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.
Why read this book?
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
In modern academic life, reading a whole book is a radical act. Unfortunate, but true. So, I’ve dedicated the next 4 weeks to reading.
My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.
Why read this book?
My first book? Pete Hay's (2002) Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. UNSW Press.
Why read this book?