UGA Press-Series

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation is devoted to books that engage the importance of space for questions of social and political change. This focus necessarily covers a broad range of subject matter, including international political economy, urban studies, gender, race, sexuality, and poverty and inequality. While the series is interdisciplinary, its primary emphasis is on critical human geography.

Books published in the series are designed to inform both intellectuals of broad stripes and those engaged in political processes of different kinds, from policy makers to grassroots activists. The series editors are interested in producing books that live on in academic offices and classrooms around the world, but also take on life in political chambers, organizing halls, and the streets where both space and politics are produced.

Nik Heynen is an associate professor of geography at the University of Georgia. He has coedited three books: Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences; Globalization’s Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation; and In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. Heynen's current book project is a study of the politicization of anti-hunger programs, with a particular focus on the Black Panthers.

Deborah Cowen is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, author of Military Workfare, and coeditor of the volume War, Citizenship, and Territory.

Melissa W. Wright is an associate professor of geography and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism and a coeditor of Geographies of Power: Placing Scale.

Books in this series

Accumulating Insecurity
Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life
Edited by Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler, and Gayatri A. Menon

Begging as a Path to Progress
Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces
Kate Swanson

Bloomberg’s New York
Class and Governance in the Luxury City
Julian Brash

Company Towns in the Americas
Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities
Edited by Oliver J. Dinius and Angela Vergara

Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Jason Hackworth

Fitzgerald
Geography of a Revolution
William Bunge

Making the San Fernando Valley
Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege
Laura R. Barraclough

Roppongi Crossing
The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky

Social Justice and the City
David Harvey

They Saved the Crops
Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Don Mitchell

Tremé
Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood
Michael E. Crutcher Jr.

Editorial Advisory Board

Sharad Chari
London School of Economics

Bradon Ellem
University of Sydney

Gillian Hart
University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Herod
University of Georgia

Jennifer Hyndman
York University

Larry Knopp
University of Washington, Tacoma

Heidi Nast
Depaul University

Jamie Peck
University of British Columbia

Frances Fox Piven
City University of New York

Laura Pulido
University of Southern California

Paul Routledge
University of Glasgow

Neil Smith
City University of New York

Bobby Wilson
University of Alabama