Book Reviews

All Antipode book reviews are now freely available from our online repository, Wiley Online Library. While this digital archive will remain in place, from January 2013 we’ll no longer publish book reviews in the journal; all book reviews will migrate to AntipodeFoundation.org. This will allow us to feature not only more reviews, but also more substantive reviews (in the style, say, of the London Review of Books), more quickly. The makeover will also transform the book reviews section into a more capacious ‘Book reviews, etc.’ section, that may now feature, in addition to book reviews, reviews of film and music, grey literature, and political pamphlets – in fact, any texts that have something to say to the radical geographic imagination. If you’ve an idea for a review, please get in touch with Vinay Gidwani and Andy Kent.

Marvin Taylor – PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota – did sterling service as Assistant Book Reviews Editor from September 2010 to March 2013, revitalising Book Reviews through his imaginative commissioning work with Vinay. Marv leaves Antipode to focus on his dissertation, and we offer him our profound thanks and best wishes for the future.

Geoff Mann (Simon Fraser University) on Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History;

Tyler McCreary (York University) on Anthony Hall’s Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism;

Christopher Strunk (University of Minnesota) on Benjamin Dangl’s Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America;

Matthew Sparke (University of Washington), Vicky Lawson (University of Washington), Katharine Rankin (University of Toronto), Michael Watts (University of California, Berkeley), and Stephen Young (University of Washington) on Ananya Roy’s Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (with an afterword from the author);

 

Michael Ekers (University of Toronto) on Peter Thomas’ The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism;

Stefan Kipfer (York University) on Himani Bannerji’s Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology;

Scott Kirsch (UNC Chapel Hill) on Henri Lefebvre’s State, Space, World: Selected Essays;

Suzanne Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science) on Lindsay Bremner’s Writing the City into Being: Essays on Johannesburg, 1998-2008 and Martin Murray’s City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg;

 

 

joshua j. kurz (Ohio State University) on Alison Mountz’s Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border;

Brett Story (University of Toronto) on Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s film, The Forgotten Space (see also Brett’s featured video, ‘Forgotten spaces‘);

Majed Akhter (University of Arizona) on Brahma Chellaney’s Water: Asia’s New Battleground;

Christian Anderson (City University of New York) on Themis Chronopoulos’ Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance;

 

 

 

Melinda Harm Benson (University of New Mexico) on David Delaney’s The Spatial, the Legal, and the Pragmatics of World-Making: Nomospheric Investigations;

Derek Ruez (University of Kentucky) on Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley’s The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age;

Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) on Kiran Asher’s Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands;

Bharat Punjabi (University of Western Ontario) on Karen Bakker’s Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis;

 

 

 

Rodd Myers (University of East Anglia) on Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li’s Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia;

Anne Rademacher (New York University) on Colin McFarlane’s Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage;

Peter Brogan (York University) on Jane Wills and colleagues’ Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour;

Marion Werner (University at Buffalo, SUNY) on Ben Selwyn’s Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value;

 

 

 

 

Omar Jabary Salamanca (Ghent University) on Eyal Weizman’s The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza;

Basil Mahayni (University of Minnesota) on Bassam Haddad’s Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience;

Mazen Labban (Rutgers University) on Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil;

Katelyn Angell (Long Island University) and Stina Soderling (Rutgers University) on Stanley and Smith’s Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and Mogul et al.’s Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States;

 

 

Dave Featherstone (University of Glasgow) on Carl Griffin’s The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest;

Seth Schindler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on Ahmed et al.’s India’s New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis;

Gerald Aiken (Durham University) on David Featherstone’s Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism;

Malene Jacobsen (University of Kentucky) on Gregory Feldman’s The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union;

 

 

 

Patrick Weir (University of Exeter) on Brad Evans’ Liberal Terror.