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Gautham Rao, White Power: Policing American Slavery – University of North Carolina Press, May 2026
Gautham Rao, White Power: Policing American Slavery – University of North Carolina Press, May 2026 Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, … Continue reading →
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January 20, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Books received – Kristeva, Ryback, Sergent, Ruwet, Deleuze, Serres, Burrin
Mostly bought second-hand, but including Michel Serres, Hermes III, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Gilles Deleuze, Sur les lines de vie. The one without a clear title on the spine is Jean-Claude Ruwet, Introduction to Ethology: The Biology … Continue reading →
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January 19, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Alex Sharpe, We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism – Counterpress, February 2026
Alex Sharpe, We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism – Counterpress, February 2026 This book brings existentialist philosophy (atheistic and Christian) to life through the artistic life of David Bowie. Working with Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, … Continue reading →
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January 19, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Mircea Eliade on alchemy; Marie-Madeleine Davy on mysticism and symbolism
Among many other topics, the Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade wrote about alchemy. His 1937 book Cosmologie Şi Alchimie Babiloniană was translated into French as Cosmologie et alchimie babyloniennes, but only in 1991. A substantial part of this text appeared in English … Continue reading →
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January 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape – Mack, January 2026 and interview at JHI blog
Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape – Mack, January 2026 Ranging from Italian unification to the aftershocks of Covid-19, and drawing on architectural records, medical history, and the author’s own travels, Terra Infecta reveals the lived realities of grand … Continue reading →
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January 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood – Harvard University Press, August 2026
William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood – Harvard University Press, August 2026 We often idealize the university as a sanctuary for disinterested reason, where material concerns are set aside in favor of higher principles. Yet … Continue reading →
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January 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Alain Badiou, A Political Life: 1937-1985 – trans. Robin Mackay, Polity, November 2025
Alain Badiou, A Political Life: 1937-1985 – trans. Robin Mackay, Polity, November 2025 In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it … Continue reading →
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January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality – Cambridge University Press, August 2025 and New Books discussion
Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality – Cambridge University Press, August 2025 I’ve shared the book details before. There is now a New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →
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January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History – trans. Neil Solomon, Polity, November 2025
Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History – trans. Neil Solomon, Polity, November 2025 Russia’s attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to … Continue reading →
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January 15, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Oli Mould, Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future – Manchester University Press, February 2026
Oli Mould, Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future – Manchester University Press, February 2026 A visionary exploration of what the city might be in a postcapitalist world. In a world dominated by capitalism, where urban landscapes suffer from inequality, … Continue reading →
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January 15, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873) – trans. Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J Mitchell, Stanford University Press, January 2026
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873) – trans. Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J Mitchell, Stanford University Press, January 2026 The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Volume 1 During his early years in … Continue reading →
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January 14, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight – trans. Gregory Elliott, Verso, January 2026
Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight – trans. Gregory Elliott, Verso, January 2026 The best-selling author of A Philosophy of Walking returns to address the eternal subject of human conflict Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a … Continue reading →
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January 14, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Miguel de Beistegui, Crisis: A Critique – Bloomsbury, January 2026
Miguel de Beistegui, Crisis: A Critique – Bloomsbury, January 2026 Crises abound.The ‘end of history’ in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies and … Continue reading →
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January 14, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025
Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume. Throughout his … Continue reading →
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January 14, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Jean Berthier, Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs: Sollers, Barthes, Kristeva, Pleynet, Wahl… en Chine – Le Cherche Midi, January 2026
Jean Berthier, Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs: Sollers, Barthes, Kristeva, Pleynet, Wahl… en Chine – Le Cherche Midi, January 2026 Thanks to Barthes Studies on Bluesky for the link. Le roman documenté du voyage de Philippe Sollers, Roland Barthes, … Continue reading →
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January 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026
Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 The original draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned British kings for supporting slavery in their empire. England’s two seventeenth-century revolutions … Continue reading →
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January 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy
Clémence Ramnoux (1905-1997) was an important French scholar of ancient Greece. She worked mostly on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus. Alongside Simone Pétrement she was one of the first two women who entered the philosophy programme of the École Normale Supérieure in 1927. Simone Weil … Continue reading →
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January 11, 2026 at 9:54 PM
H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access) What does it mean to … Continue reading →
<p>H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. <em><a href="https://haubooks.org/southern-epistemologies/">Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon</a></em> – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access)</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/southern-epistemologies.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54579" height="1024" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/southern-epistemologies.jpeg?w=683" style="width: 298px; height: auto;" width="683" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>What does it mean to know, and how is knowledge practiced? How can Indigenous perspectives challenge conventional concepts of knowledge in the Global North? Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies from the Andes and Western Amazon,&nbsp;<em>Southern Epistemologies</em>&nbsp;investigates how knowledge, wisdom, and understanding are shaped by local cultures, languages, bodies, and environments.</p> <p>Bringing together linguists, philosophers, anthropologists, and Indigenous knowledge holders, the volume examines the dynamic interactions between culture, language, and place, showing how the unique linguistic histories and worldviews of Andean and Amazonian societies inform distinct ways of knowing. By interpreting these perspectives on their own terms, the book offers fresh insights into the plurality and diversity of human knowledge.</p> <p>As the first volume specifically focused on Indigenous South American epistemologies,&nbsp;<em>Southern Epistemologies</em>&nbsp;foregrounds Indigenous knowledge systems and science while fostering dialogue with academic traditions. By opening new interdisciplinary and cross-cultural conversations, this groundbreaking volume challenges conventional notions of knowledge and illuminates how engagement with Indigenous perspectives can expand and enrich our understanding of what it truly means to know.</p> </blockquote>
January 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Shirley Samuels, Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Princeton University Press, October/December 2025 In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily […]

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<p>Shirley Samuels, <em><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248578/haunted-by-the-civil-war">Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States</a></em> – Princeton University Press, October/December 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/samuels.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54499" height="619" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/samuels.jpeg?w=410" style="width: 262px; height: auto;" width="410" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>In&nbsp;<em>Haunted by the Civil War,</em>&nbsp;Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America’s cataclysmic sundering. Juxtaposing these texts with images—ranging from paintings by Winslow Homer to newspaper and magazine illustrations of political controversies—Samuels argues that the Civil War still haunts our attitudes toward democracy. The recent toppling of Confederate monuments, the continuing protests over racial and sexual discrimination, immigration, and Indigenous land rights: each of these forms part of the war’s legacy.</p> <p>Examining the fraught deliberations about an ideal American democracy in the early republic, Samuels turns to the language of sensation in the poetry of Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman alongside Lincoln’s relation to the poetic and visual culture of his time. She considers the haunted afterlives of war in the work of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as in popular nineteenth-century inspirational fiction. And she investigates the literature of men at sea (and on rivers, enabling both connection and escape), as seen in Melville and Mark Twain, while examining women’s wartime work and experience, in writings by Gilman and Frances Harper.</p> <p>Why does the Civil War still haunt us? To find the answer, Samuels identifies not only the ghosts that cannot rest but also the cultural practices that name them.</p> </blockquote>
January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction – Wiley, January 2026
Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction – Wiley, January 2026 Migration: A Critical Introduction offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens. Going beyond traditional borders and categories, this book examines the … Continue reading →
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January 9, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique – Gallimard, January 2026
Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique – Gallimard, January 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for the link « L’année des cheveux longs et de la minijupe », résume le journal rétrospectif des Actualités françaises le 27 décembre 1966. Sommet des Trente Glorieuses, arrivée … Continue reading →
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January 9, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Stuart Elden, “Visuality and Vocabulary in Political Geography”, Dialogues in Human Geography, review forum on Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, online first
My contribution to a review forum on Juliet Fall’s remarkable books Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière (Mētis); Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) has now been published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography Stuart Elden, … Continue reading →
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January 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled
Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled Julius Caesar, edited by Andrew James Hartley Titus Andronicus, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson As You Like It, edited by Tom Bishop The first two are scheduled for May, … Continue reading →
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January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Lawrence Douglas, The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice – Princeton University Press, April/June 2026
Lawrence Douglas, The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice – Princeton University Press, April/June 2026 The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad … Continue reading →
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January 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Anthony Gottlieb, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes – Yale University Press, January 2026
Anthony Gottlieb, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes – Yale University Press, January 2026 The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century … Continue reading →
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January 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM