RGS-IBG Book Series: Latest News
Book Forums to by published out of ‘Author Meets Critic’ Panels at the RGS-IBG Conference, Manchester, 26-28 August 2009!
The Book Series is delighted to announce that after a series of successful panels at the annual RGS-IBG conference last September, 2010 and 2011 will see a series of Forums published discussing books from the series:
- Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks by David Featherstone will be discussed by Kevin Ward, Danny Mackinnon, Jenny Pickerill and the author in Social Movement Studies
- Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970 by Avril Maddrell will be discussed by Kevin Ward, Alison Blunt, Jo Norcup, James Sidaway, Charlie Withers and the author in Area
- Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town by Andrew Tucker will be discussed by Kevin Ward, Jon Binnie, Gavin Brown, Kath Browne, Alan Ingram, Gordon Issacs, William Leap and the author in Political Geography
New books published!
The next three months will see three new books published in the Series: Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects by Peter Adey, Swept Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City by Paul Cloke, Jon May, Sarah Johnsen and Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines by David Ley.
New books commissioned!
Books by David Featherstone and Joe Painter, Alex Jeffrey, and Maureen Molloy and Wendy Larner have been commissioned and will be published over the next couple of years.
Meet the editors!
Both Kevin and Jo are regular attendees at conferences. Please feel free to approach them to talk about any future book plans you might have. You can catch them at the following conferences over the next six months:
1-3 September 2010 (RGS-IBG). Kevin Ward (Human Geography Series Editor) will be attending the RGS-IBG annual conference in London. Examples of recently published human geography books in the series will be available for future potential authors to examine, and he will be at the Wiley-Blackwell exhibits a couple of times during the conference. If you would like to arrange an appointment email him at kevin.ward@manchester.ac.uk.
Monday 7th – Wednesday 9th September 2009 (BSG). Joanna Bullard (Physical Geography Series Editor) will be attending the British Society of Geomorphologists conference at Hatfield College, Durham University from 7-9 September 2009. If you would like to arrange an appointment please email her at J.E.Bullard@lboro.ac.uk.
