Market Bad, Academia Good? Porter reviews Mirowski

James Porter’s review of Mirowski’s Science Mart: Privatizing American Science is now available on the Open Site. The book was published by Harvard University Press in 2011.

Mary Douglas reviewed by Pamela Shurmer-Smith

A Very Personal Method is Richard Fardon’s edited collection of a diverse set of writings by the late Mary Douglas, here reviewed by Pam Shurmer-Smith.

Plastic selves: two new Malabou reviews posted

Two books by French philosopher Catherine Malabou are reviewed on the Open Site:

First is her Ontology of the Accident (2012), reviewed by Stacey Smith.

Second is Changing Difference (2011), reviewed by Sarah Kuzuk.

Both books were translated from French by Carolyn Shread and published by Polity Press.

Another book by Malabou, The New Wounded, was reviewed for EPD last year by Pepe Romanillos, whereas a new article on plasticity and the concept of landscape authored by Chris Van Dyke has just been made available here (the latter requires subscription to the journal).

Landscape’s Geopolitics reviewed by John Agnew

John Agnew reviews Giorgio Mangani’s book Geopolitica del paesaggio: storie e geografie dell’identità marchigiana [Landscape's Geopolitics: Histories and Geographies of Marches' Identity] here. The volume was published in 2012 by Il lavoro editoriale.

Henri Lefebvre by Chris Butler

 Mark Purcell reviews Chris Butler’s book from Routledge, Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life, and the Right to the City.

Katie Ledingham reviews Wolfe’s Before the Law

Ledingham reviews Cary Wolfe’s 2012 Before the Law.  See the book’s U Chicago Press website here.

Politics of Catastrophe review

Ciara Bracken-Roche reviews Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster, Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown, from Routledge Press in 2011. 

Jeremy Crampton on the geographies of Gunnar Olsson

GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson, a volume edited by Christian Abrahamsson and Martin Gren, is reviewed by Jeremy Crampton. The book was published by Ashgate in 2012.

South American and European geographies

Two volumes edited by Daniel Hiernaux and Alicia Lindón from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana at Iztapalapa, Mexico, are reviewed on the Open Site:

The first is Los giros de la Geografía Humana: desafíos y horizontes (The Turns of Human Geography: Challenges and Prospects) published in 2011 and reviewed by Carlos Cornejo-Nieto. 

The second is Geografías de lo imaginario (Geographies of the Imaginary, 2012) reviewed by Paloma Puente-Lozano.

Both volumes were published by Anthropos as part of its Human Geography Series. To view further titles in the series, click here.