The 2022 AAG annual meeting will be held online from Friday, Feb. 25 – Tuesday, March 1. You can visit us at the AAG virtual exhibit hall as well as on our own virtual exhibit page here. To save 40% … Continue reading UNP at Virtual AAG
Join the University of Nebraska Press’s virtual book launch “Negatives and Voids in Cultural Geography” for the newest addition to the Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth series, Negative Geographies (Nebraska, 2021), on December 13, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. CST … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Book Launch for Geography Series
Betsy Wing is the translator of Édouard Glissant’s novel Mahagony (Nebraska, 2021). Her previous translations include Glissant’s The Fourth Century (Bison, 2001), The Overseer’s Cabin (Nebraska, 2011), Poetics of Relation, and Black Salt, among the works of many other writers. “I wrote it once. … Continue reading From the Desk of Betsy Wing: Translating Édouard Glissant
Serin D. Houston is an assistant professor of geography and international relations at Mount Holyoke College. Her new book Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance is now available. I grew up in rural, northern Vermont, a place where the rolling … Continue reading From the Desk of Serin D. Houston: Exploring a Storied Landscape
Founded in 1965, the Western Literature Association is a non-profit, scholarly association that promotes the study of the diverse literature and cultures of the North American West, past and present. Scholars, artists, environmentalists, and community leaders who value the West’s … Continue reading 2018 WLA Preview
The following books are now available in paperback editions. Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia By Ann McGrath “McGrath simultaneously … Continue reading Now in paperback
Bridget Barry will be representing UNP at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting this year in New Orleans from April 10-14. The conference celebrates the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. Here are some of the books … Continue reading AAG preview
The following is an excerpt from Great Plains Literature by Linda Ray Pratt (Bison Books, March 2018). From Chapter One: Under Spacious Skies One of the most beloved patriotic songs of the United States, “America the Beautiful,” paints this iconic image of the … Continue reading Excerpt: Great Plains Literature
The following is by Jim Thatcher, an editor of Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research (April 2018). Thatcher is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Washington Tacoma. The past couple of weeks have seen a variety of … Continue reading From the Desk of Jim Thatcher: Your Data Is You, But It’s Not Your Own
The following collection of excerpts are from Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time, edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien (November 2017). In recent years, talking about the environment has required the … Continue reading EXCERPT: Thinking Continental
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