Borders in Red shows how Lenin and his Bolshevik leadership embraced the nationality question as a way of managing diversity and institutionalized it as a means of governance. Stephan Rindlisbacher uses the making of national borders as a lens through which to examine the Bolsheviks‘ fundamental shift from proletarian internationalism to ethnonational federalism sui generis.… Read More Stephan Rindlisbacher (2025): Borders in Red. Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union. Cornell: New York.

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of the Lieutenant Herbert Schröder-Stranz German Arctic Expedition of 1912 in Spitsbergen (Svalbard). The book portrays the cooperative and strategic endeavors of… Read More Mary R. Tahan and Cornelia Lüdecke (2024): Stranded at the Top of the World. A Story of Exploration and Heroic Rescue in the Arctic. Springer: Cham

The blank spots on a map and the legends that speak of terrae incognitae are among the most seductive sirens of the cartographic imagination. They hint at the existence of unknown lands, yet tell us nothing about what they are or what they might be like. Do such lands even exist? How many types of… Read More Carla Lois (2025): Terrae Incognitae. Mapping the Unknown. Brill: Leiden and Boston.

How did modern territoriality emerge and what are its consequences? This book examines these key questions with a unique global perspective. Kerry Goettlich argues that linear boundaries are products of particular colonial encounters, rather than being essentially an intra-European practice artificially imposed on colonized regions. He reconceptualizes modern territoriality as a phenomenon separate from sovereignty… Read More Kerry Goettlich (2025): From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality. CUP: Cambridge.

Der vorliegende Band bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung des Verbands für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (VGDH). Sein „Herzstück” bildet ein über 90 Seiten umfassender Zeitstrahl, der zentrale Ereignisse der Verbandsgeschichte chronologisch dokumentiert. Ergänzt wird dieser durch Beiträge, die ausgewählte Entwicklungen vertiefend einordnen und erläutern. Eckart Ehlers zeichnet die Entwicklung der Verbandsstrukturen der… Read More Boris Braun, Franziska Krachten, Carsten Butsch (Hrsg.) (2025): Debatten und Entwicklungslinien – von den Anfängen des VGDH bis heute (= Colloquium Geographicum, Band 41). E. Ferger Verlag: Bonn.