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This second edition of John Hudson's well-known textbook comes 18 years after the first edition. Hudson says regional geography "tends to be long on facts", and offers "a framework for those facts and an interpretation of their relevance ... " (xv). That's common in textbooks, but I think it reduces the value of those many references (some textbooks in regional geography do have citations). [Extracted from the article]

FEELING LIKE A STATE: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority: By Davina Cooper. Cooper is also aware of the fact that her state conception "may prove less useful, diffusing the extent of coercive state power and blunting some of the ways governmental authority is exercised unequally. Furthermore, as Cooper argues, states not only consist of dissenting and fleeting actors, beliefs, and space; there are also differently scaled state and state-like formations that coexist and overlap. [Extracted from the article]

By foregrounding this labor, Appel illustrates the operation of global capitalism not as a set of intrinsic, systematic logics, but as an ongoing project of construction made through grounded material and semiotic practices. THE LICIT LIFE OF CAPITALISM: U.S. Oil in Equatorial Guinea: By Hannah Appel. While Appel's subject matter is complex, the book's clear, compelling, and approachable prose make it an excellent addition to graduate-level geography courses focused on political economy, political ecology, infrastructure, or racial capitalism. [Extracted from the article]

The last part of this book, "Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism", presents a fair and accurate representation of refugee populations in the field of critical geographies of migration. In this section of the book, the authors provide an essential insight into the politics of asylum and refugees. Yolan Weima and Jennifer Hyndman's contribution (Chapter 2) raises the issue of the traditional refugee management regime, which characterizes refugees as passive and apolitical. [Extracted from the article]

As Glacken, edited by Rajan, wrote, this elementary fallacy was a meaningless effort to seek to determine if environmental influences or effects on individuals could by extension be applied deterministically to whole cultures. He apparently destroyed the sequel, but Rajan has secured Glacken's unpublished writings, perhaps elements that comprise the sequel, along with a couple of published review essays, and compiled them into this book. Today's traces on the shore have become exceedingly deep ruptures, something the non-political Glacken was essentially arguing through the tool of intellectual history of human-environment relationships, at least as his writings have been compiled and edited in I Genealogies i . [Extracted from the article]

Geographer Jeffrey Smith says his edited collection is about "putting place back in place attachment research" (p. 1). Then there are 13 essays, each about a specific place or kind of place, and an Epilogue by Paul Adams. EXPLORATIONS IN PLACE ATTACHMENT: Edited by Jeffrey S. Smith. xvi and 244 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. [Extracted from the article]

In the book's final section, Perramond looks ahead and ponders what lessons New Mexico's residents can learn from has already transpired in the state's long struggles with adjudication. Eric Perramond's I Unsettled Waters i is a beautifully written, carefully researched, and well-illustrated introduction into the complex, evolving world of water management across New Mexico. Perramond wades directly into these often-murky waters, combining his knowledge of historical and legal documents with an extensive series of interviews that include a broad cross-section of water users in the state. [Extracted from the article]