Assembling the list of new books for geographers is one of the great joys of my editorship.
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Assembling the list of new books for geographers is one of the great joys of my editorship.
I mean it’s more like the Curve of Hormuz
Congratulations to one of our authors, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, on the publication of his nonfiction book about Japan’s space programs and global space exploration! 🚀
Congratulations to the authors and contributors to this important issue of the journal. Their message moves the discipline, and the academy as a whole, closer to a more just and equitable institution. There’s still work to be done, and I offer my thanks to the authors for moving the needle.
How inclusive is archaeological data? Carrie Heitman’s latest digital review examines #feminist data science. She highlights how power and bias shape everything from collection to interpretation, outlining approaches for more transparent and equitable #research. 🏺
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“Nation-states are people too, my friend.” - Mitt Romney, probably
"Sweet Land, Bitter Deal: Immigrant Detention and Unbreathable Air in Florida's Sugarcane Heartland" -- the Antipode Foundation is honoured to be among the funders of this important new report earthjustice.org/press/2026/a...
“An intellectually serious investigation of our ambivalent attitudes towards work... lays the conceptual groundwork for thinking of work as a space for the play of collective freedom.”
@impractknow.bsky.social on 'Working for Each Other' by Deryn Thomas
Out 5th March
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#philsky
I hope OpenAI gets sued into the sun
“…we advocate for a metaphorical shift focused on care, inclusivity, and diversity—that of a garden. The garden metaphor provides a way to express and explore the complex and intertwined ways disciplinary norms, institutions, and individuals structure and shape experiences in archaeology.”
Joe Hedges, my colleague at WSU, writes, “this book makes clear the ways that physical locations and geography inform songwriting…what a magical thing-that this art form [album cover art] invites me into the heart and mind of the lyricist…”
A wonderfully curated collection by Damien Saunder.
"It is harder to evaluate more specialised systems being built for social purposes such as education and government. But since the frenetic pursuit of profit tends to introduce irresistible bias to every human system we have, the same will be true of AI."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
“When AI is asked to show daily life in the deep past, does it reflect modern science or outdated ideas?” Matthew Magnani reveals how many AI depictions of Neanderthals rely on outdated assumptions, reinforcing old stereotypes instead of current research.
www.thebrighterside.news/post/new-stu...
Just published: my review of Wil Gesler’s career retrospective Freedom to Roam: Fell-Walking and the Life Geographic
Books like this are “important works because they reflect on the process of becoming a professional geographer and the meaning of geographic knowledge.”
“To more fully integrate gender into our field, US-based archaeologists could address underrepresentation of women authors in journals, reluctance to engage with politics and activism, privileging of quantitative data, academic hiring, and strategic uses of different kinds of journals.”
LLM companies make the academic dishonesty equivalent of heroin, and we do not have academic honesty equivalents of methadone yet
The impact of Harvard closing its geography department still reverberates through the academy. I’ve heard people point to it as an example of why geography is best chopped up and absorbed into other disciplines without knowing why Harvard made the decision to dissolve the department
Time for university administrators to stop buying AI hype. None of my very smart and eager-to-learn students wanted anything to do with chatbots.
Cover of I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo by Andrew G. Britt. The cover features a yellow and orange duotone of a crowd of people walking down a dirt road. This photograph overlays a yellow and orange map that is fully visible in the top right corner. A circle appears on the right side, inverting the image, making the yellow map orange. The title is written in a bold white aligned left. The subtitle is directly below in a smaller white font, separated from the title by a thick yellow line. The author’s name is in the top left in a burnt orange.
"I’ll Samba Someplace Else" by Andrew G. Britt charts how spatial projects sustain popular ideologies of post-racialism despite enduringly high levels of racialized inequity in Brazil and beyond. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/LipCcpS
“Conference participation is a source of economic, social, and cultural capital that translates into opportunities and future career success…gender plays a strong role in determining who occupies positions of prestige and that decisions about who is “qualified” affect distributions of capital...”
From the Stacks with the Librarian is now on the air until 1pm PST. Playing selections from the vinyl collection at Holland and Terrell Libraries on the beautiful campus of Washington State University
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With commentaries by Madiha Tahir at Yale, Lisa Bhungalia at UW Madison, Craig Jones at Newcastle University, and @geogsara.bsky.social from UNC Chapel Hill. Author Rhys Machold at the University of Glasgow provides a thought-provoking response
Cc: @stanfordpress.bsky.social
A powerful forum on Rhys Machold’s book Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel is now available. Mark Griffiths writes that the book “addresses crucial questions on the workings of right-wing populism, authoritarianism, and weapons capitalism.”
@osupress.bsky.social
Graduate student Afrida Aranya reviews Kurt Fausch’s A Reverence for Rivers.
“…moral orientation, as highlighted by Fausch, adds a new dimension to geography, a discipline that has long documented river modification and degradation, yet has left questions of ethical responsibility implicit.”
One more hour of music From the Stacks of Holland and Terrell Libraries hosted by The Librarian
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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading: