Geography category: 5793 books
The Middle East (Routledge Revivals)
A Physical, Social and Regional Geography
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this comprehensive study, first published in 1950, Professor Fisher examines all the principal elements – physical and human – that influence environment, development and ways of life in the Middle East. An analysis of the physical basis of the region is followed by detailed treatment of the...
Rural Governance
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)?
The case studies in...
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work...
The African Metropolis
Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and political...
At the Edges of Citizenship
Security and the Constitution of Non-citizen Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Proposing a new, dynamic conception of citizenship, this book argues against understandings of citizenship as a collection of rights that can be either possessed or endowed, and demonstrates it is an emergent condition that has temporal and spatial dimensions. Furthermore, citizenship is shown to...
The Global Cultural Capital
Addressing the Citizen and Producing the City in Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship in Barcelona since 1979. Through analysis of official documents, municipal publicity campaigns, sport – including the Olympic Games and Barcelona F.C – and film, Balibrea makes sense...
by Gary Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism (and...
The Point Is To Change It
Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it
Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider...
The Political Ecology of the State
The basis and the evolution of environmental statehood
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the state apparatus, especially because of its mediatory role.
The Political Ecology of the State is the first book to...
by Jim Kemeny
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Studies in housing have often concentrated on an abstract institutionalised approach isolated from the broader base of the social sciences. This book is the first to treat housing as a subject of social theory. It provides a critique of current research and theorises housing in relation to political...
by Ted Benton, Michael Redclift
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact.
The authors explore the relationship between social theory...
Splintering Urbanism
Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about:
*globalization and the city
*technology...
The Spatial Humanities
GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across...