Human Geography category: 3213 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Intimacy, expressed through the feelings and sensations of the researcher, is bound up in the work of a feminist geographer. Tapping into this intimacy and including it in academic writing facilitates a grasping of the effects of power in particular places and initiates a discussion about how...
by Professor Doreen B Massey
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
"Doreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insight. This is a work of enormous ambition, breadth, and depth, and not a little complexity."
- David M. Smith***, Queen Mary, University of London***
"The...
by Garrett Nagle, Paul Guinness
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Exam board: Cambridge Assessment International Education
Level: A-level
Subject: Geography
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
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The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological...
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and...
Living with the Sea
Knowledge, Awareness and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of seafarers who keep our global economy afloat;...
Not So Golden State
Sustainability vs. the California Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums. In this necessary work, Miller asks tough questions as we stand at the edge of a human-induced natural disaster in the region...
The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We are all born...
by John Eyles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Senses of Place is an intriguing monograph which identifies different types of sense of place in a small market town in England. Its author -John Eyles - draws on the fields of community studies and humanistic geography for his conceptual framework. In their vein, his opening chapter is autobiographical...
by Sanjay Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Cultural geography is the study of the many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and then travel as people continually move across various areas. Some of the main cultural phenomena studied in cultural geography include language,...
Environmental Security
Approaches and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental...
by Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions.
Considering the...
Rethinking Maps
New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 33
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies with six essays on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography in the twentieth century. This volume focuses on European...