Hester Parr reviews Catherine Robinson

Catherine Robinson’s Beside One’s Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived was published by Syracuse University Press last year.  Hester Parr reviews it for Society and Space.

Peter Gratton reviews Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization

Society and Space coeditor Peter Gratton offers his review of Hasana Sharp’s 2011 book, Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (from University of Chicago Press).

Review of Flammable by Thomas Perreault

Thomas Perreault reviews Javier Auyero and Débora Alejandra Swistun’s 2009 prize-winning Flammable, from Oxford University Press.

Review of Craig Jeffrey’s Timepass, by Dia Da Costa

Dia Da Costa reviews Craig Jeffrey’s 2010 book, Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India, from Stanford University Press. Craig is a Society and Space Editorial Board member.

Mary Thomas’ Multicultural Girlhood, reviewed by Wendy Shaw

Mary Thomas’ 2011 book, Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education, is reviewed by Wendy Shaw here. Find out more about Mary’s book at its Temple University Press homepage.

Reid-Henry’s The Cuban Cure, reviewed by Kevin Grove

Simon Reid-Henry’s book was published in 2010 by the University of Chicago Press. Kevin Grove offers his review on the Open Site.

Stuart Elden reviews Jenny Edkins

Stuart Elden reviews Jenny Edkins’s new book from Cornel University Press, Missing: Persons and Politics.  Jenny is a former editorial board member of Society and Space.

Review of Julie Guthman’s Weighing In

Rachel Slocum reviews Julie Guthman’s 2011 book, Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism for the Open Site.  Find out more about Julie’s book at its University of California Press homepage.

GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place reviewed by Rob Sullivan

Dear, Michael, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson (eds) 2011 GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place, reviewed by Rob Sullivan (posted 12 February 2012)

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New reviews posted

A review essay by Mark Kear on debt looks at Richard Dienst and David Graeber.

Amy Zader reviews Seung-Joon Lee’s Gourmets in the Land of Famine.