Arid empire: The entangled fates of Arizona and Arabia (2022)
Available from Verso or Amazon
Media:
- AZPM Tapped: From date palms to alfalfa: How Arizona became fertile ground for Saudi farms (August 28, 2024)
- Freakonomics Radio: Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think (February 28, 2024)
- Voices of the Middle East and North: Africa Prof Natalie Koch explores the relationship between Arizona and Saudi Arabia in “Arid Empire” (June 15, 2023)
- Public Books: The seduction of desert spectacles: Talking “Arid Empire” with Natalie Koch and Andrew Curley (July 4, 2023)
- New Books Network: Natalie Koch, Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (May 22, 2023)
- Jadaliyya New Books Out Now: Natalie Koch, Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (May 17, 2023)
- NHPR Outside/In: A tale of two deserts: Are Saudi cows to blame for Arizona’s water crisis? (May 11, 2023)
- On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez: Saudi Arabia’s Thirst for Arizona’s Water (April 20, 2023)
- Lit Hub’s Keen On: Natalie Koch Untangles the Weirdly Connected Environmental Fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia: In Conversation with Andrew Keen (March 22, 2023)
- The Gateway: Desert Politics from Arizona to Arabia, with Natalie Koch (March 22, 2023)
- The Landscape, The Center for Western Priorities: The tangled fates of Arizona and Arabia (March 16, 2023)
- Heidelberg Center for American Studies: Arid Empire Book Launch with Drs. R. Lee, C. Gersdorf, F. Robles, I. Nelson, B. Meché, C. Henderson, V. Cummings, and M. Sollai (February 2, 2023)
- Lapham’s Quarterly: Excerpt “Dictating the Desert: Plants and settlers take root in a new mythology of Arizona” (February 1, 2023)
- Quo Vadis USA? Folge 73: Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia – A Book Talk with Natalie Koch, University of Heidelberg (February 1, 2023)
- KJZZ: New book ‘Arid Empire’ by Natalie Koch explores ties between Saudi and Arizona farmers that go back nearly a century (January 18, 2023)
- Terrain: Natalie Koch on arid empire, camel colonialism, and desert imaginaries (January 7, 2023)
- High Country News: Why are Saudi farmers pumping Arizona groundwater? A conversation with Natalie Koch (January 1, 2023)
- The New York Times: Guest essay: Arizona is in a race to the bottom of its water wells, with Saudi Arabia’s help (December 26, 2022)
- 12 News, NBC Arizona: Arizona farmers grew Saudi Arabia’s farming empire. Now, the monarchy has a chunk of the state’s water (June 17, 2022)
- The Page 99 Test: Natalie Koch’s “Arid Empire”
Reviews:
- Counterpunch: The Colonization of Deserts from Arabia to Arizona (R. Jacobs)
- Science: Arid lands, imperial ambitions: Desert knowledge exchange cloaked imperial goals, argues a political geographer (P. Karimi)
- Political Geography: Reading Natalie Koch’s, Arid empire: The entangled fates of Arizona and Arabia (A. Curley, R. Lee, M. Sollai, S.S. Hughes, B. Meché, M. Lane, N.Koch)
- Environmental History: Review of Arid Empire (S. Lawrence)
- Water Alternatives: Review of Arid Empire (Z. Sugg)
- Foreward Reviews: Review of Arid Empire (J. Fleischer)
- AAG Review of Books: Review of Arid Empire (C. Dodge)
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography: Review of Arid Empire (A. Curley)
- Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes: Review of Arid Empire (L. Kennedy-Slaney)
Spatializing authoritarianism (2022)
Available from Syracuse University Press or Amazon
Media & reviews:
- Lit Hub’s Keen On: Natalie Koch Untangles the Weirdly Connected Environmental Fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia: In Conversation with Andrew Keen (March 22, 2023)
- New Books Network: Natalie Koch, Spatializing authoritarianism (November 14, 2022)
- Agora, GW IERES Illiberalism Studies Program: Natalie Koch on Authoritarianism and Cults of Personality (October 12, 2022)
- sub/urban: Wie verräumlicht sich Unterdrückung? Rezension zu Natalie Koch (Hg.) (2022): Spatializing authoritarianism (November 3, 2023)
Handbook on the changing geographies of the state: New spaces of geopolitics (2020)
Available from Edward Elgar or Amazon
Media & reviews:
The geopolitics of spectacle: Space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia (2018)
Available from Cornell University Press or Amazon
Media & reviews:
- BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, “Spectacular Cities”
- Spectacular Cities and Urban Transformation in Central Asia (October 17, 2018). The Diplomat
- Review of Natalie Koch, The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia: Revisiting State Spectacle Through the New Capitals of Asia. Central Asian Affairs 6 (4): 327-341 (with S. Harris-Brandts, D. Kudaibergenova, M. Laszczkowski, N. Koch)
- Reading Natalie Koch’s The geopolitics of spectacle: Space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia. Political Geography 76: 102043 (with E. Holland, S. Lin, J. Sidaway, P. Das, S. Hughes, R. Mohammad, A. Murphy, A. Simone, C. Sneddon, G. Toal, N. Koch)
- Book Review: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia. Eurasian Geography and Economics 61 (2): 208-210 (R. Winstanley-Chesters)
- Book Notes: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia. Journal of Peace Research (P. Baev)
- Book Review: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche and the New Capitals of Asia by Natalie Koch. LSE Review of Books (K. Eggeling)
- Authoritarian Cities Go Global. Geopolitics 24 (3): 771-775 (A. Grant)
- Book Review: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia. Social & Cultural Geography 21 (1): 140-141 (S. Kahlon)
- Book Review: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia, Written by Natalie Koch. Inner Asia 21 (2): 289-291 (K. Kozioł)
- Book Review Essay: New Asian Capital: Spectacular Developmentalist Urbanisms in Action. Antipode (Umar Al Faruq)
Critical geographies of sport: Space, power, and sport in global perspective (2017)
Available from Routledge or Amazon
Media & reviews:
- New Books Network: Natalie Koch, Critical Geographies of Sport
- Book Review: Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 9 (4): 767-768 (C. Waite)
- Book Review: Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective. Geographical Review 108 (3): 484-485 (J. Montez De Oca)
- Book Review: Critical Geographies of Sport. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53 (4): 512-514 (R. Turcott)
- Angelägen bok om idrottsgeografi missar ett gyllene tillfälle (September 8, 2017). Idrottsforum: Nordic Sports Science Forum (K. Book)