“Nonkilling Geography” Book Released

The Center for Global Nonkilling has just released its latest book Nonkilling Geography, which includes a selection of eight chapters prepared by members of its Nonkilling Geography Research Committee and edited by James Tyner and Joshua Inwood. The volume can be downloaded for free from CGNK’s website and paperback copies can be ordered at US$ 10.

Geography, in particular, can (and has) contributed significantly to our understanding of the various “spaces” of killing. However, to date, there has been no overarching, singular focus promoted by Geographers toward nonkilling. This volume constitutes the first, direct engagement by a panel of Geographers to think through the idea of a nonkilling society. Contributors were asked to think broadly, to expand our intellectual—and moral—horizon to question killing and nonkilling, violence and nonviolence. And in the pages that follow, readers will experience a vast array of ideas, an unfolding of a larger intellectual quest that has the singular goal of contributing toward a nonkilling and nonviolent world.

Authors include scholars such as James Tyner, Joshua Inwood, Colin Flint, Nik Heynen, Graham Pickren, Alcindo José de Sá, Stephen Graham, Jenna M. Loyd, Barney Warf and Kathryn Gillespie, from our Nonkilling Geography Research Committee.