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  • Contesting the Arctic

    Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North

    by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt, Adam Keul, Elizabeth A. Nyman ...
    As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Managing the Infosphere

    Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion

    by Stephen D. McDowell, Philip E. Steinberg, Tami K. Tomasello ...
    Managing the Infosphere examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, the authors investigate specific policy problems encountered when international organizations, corporations, and individual ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space

    Edited by Kimberley Peters, Jon Anderson, Andrew Davies, Philip Steinberg ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the ‘oceanic turn’ in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Territory Beyond Terra

    Edited by Kimberley Peters, Elaine Stratford, Philip Steinberg ...
    Series series Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
    At the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra—land—a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans in which ‘places’ are continuously re-formed? Air that can never be fully contained? Watercourses that obtain their value by transcending ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Water Logics

    Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

    by Matthew Brauer, Olivia Durand, Brian T. Edwards, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Heller, Nicole Horne, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Shanaaz Mohammed, Martin Munro, Supriya M. Nair, Aaron Pinnix, Nathalie Roelens, Marie Sandoz, Philip Steinberg, Bradley Stephens, Anne-Katrin Weber ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Investigating Atlantis and Other Lost Cities

    by Jacob Steinberg ...
    Series series Understanding the Paranormal
    For millennia, tales of lost civilizations have captivated humanity, and foremost among them is the legend of Atlantis. In this guide to Atlantis and other lost lands, readers will learn to sort through fact and fiction, learning about the historical origins of lost-city legends, the lessons they teach us, archaeological digs for the truth, and—perhaps closest to home—their place in popular ... Read more

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  • Cartography

    The Ideal and Its History

    by Matthew H. Edney ...
    "In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of 'cartography' to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps." —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 MapsOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time ... Read more

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  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Land Sickness

    by Nikolaj Schultz ...
    As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island of Porquerolles. But even in this idyllic setting, can he escape the harsh realities of the Anthropocene?Written as a fictionalized travelogue ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Brutalism

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Thinking with Water

    by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis ...
    As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Predicament of Culture

    Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

    by James Clifford ...
    The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions ... Read more

    $33.69 USD