Book review: Cohen and Sheringham "Encountering Difference"

Questioning geography: fundamental …, 2005

Progress in Human Geography

This book review essay looks at Tim Marshall’s “Prisoners of Geography” and its in-depth examination of the interplay between geography and international politics. The aim is to highlight the book's key themes, including geopolitics, borders, trade routes, geopolitical conflict and colonial legacies. Through insightful analysis and engaging text, Marshall uncovers the central role that geography plays in shaping our world. The book’s continuing relevance is underlined by its links to significant global events and the author’s forward-looking questions. By recognising the practical factors that influence decision-making, rather than the purely ideological, the book offers a fresh perspective on current political and economic turmoil. The examination of the influence of geography and the call for increased international cooperation makes it a valuable resource for students of geography and anyone interested in political geography and globalisation.

A thematic analysis of Kaplan's book engaging with the sources, and inspirations behind the work.

The first question to ask when reviewing a book that's three years old is why bother? Since its publication Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, edited by Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, has had over 90 citations, but only one citation in Antipode (Springer et al. 2012). Most radical geographers have not embraced non-representational theory despite the repeated claims by those who write under the NRT banner that it has radical potential (Thrift 2004; McCormack 2006; Amin and Thrift 2007). NRT has been critiqued as mechanistic, masculinist and apolitical (Thien 2005; Tolia-Kelly 2006), but in looking at the many citations of this text those debates have fallen to the wayside. I will argue that this edited volume may be the starting point to a fruitful conversation if we give it a chance. Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography is worth the time of a review because there may be something good for us here. This edited collection includes a di...

The Geographical Review 95(3): 482- 485., 2005

California Geographer, 2003

Somewhat sympathetic review of a provocative -- unquestionably vindictive -- autobiography written by the most notorious living "Bad Boy" academic geographer-in-exile. GIO provides a sobering reminder of why prominent scholars and academics should avoid making enemies of anyone who is a master of the writer's craft.

Antipode, 2013

eds), Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7279-1 (paper); ISBN: 978-0-7546-7278-4 (cloth) The first question to ask when reviewing a book that's three years old is why bother? Since its publication Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography, edited by Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, has had over 90 citations, but only one citation in Antipode (Springer et al. 2012). Most radical geographers have not embraced non-representational theory despite the repeated claims by those who write under the NRT banner that it has radical potential (Thrift 2004; McCormack 2006; Amin and Thrift 2007). NRT has been critiqued as mechanistic, masculinist and apolitical (Thien 2005; Tolia-Kelly 2006), but in looking at the many citations of this text those debates have fallen to the wayside. I will argue that this edited volume may be the starting point to a fruitful conversation if we give it a chance. Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography is worth the time of a review because there may be something good for us here.

Geography, 2012