Human Geography category: 3213 books
The Geography of Religion
Faith, Place, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
The only book of its kind, this balanced and accessibly written text explores the geographical study of religion. Roger W. Stump presents a clear and meticulous examination of the intersection of religious belief and practice with the concepts of place and space. He begins by analyzing the factors...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Bioregionalism is the first book to explain the theoretical and practical dimensions of bioregionalism from an interdisciplinary standpoint, focusing on the place of bioregional identity within global politics. Leading contributors from a broad range of disciplines introduce this exciting new concept...
Patterns of China's Lost Harmony
A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents beginning hundreds of years ago. Patterns of China's Lost Harmony combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment...
Food in Society
Economy, Culture, Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of disciplinary and theoretical contexts of food studies.
While...
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 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...
Mapping Women, Making Politics
Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of...
by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities...
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty
Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad...
Fear of Small Numbers
An Essay on the Geography of Anger
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2006
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic...
by Clive Agnew, Philip Woodhouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change.
Water Resources and Development...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such...
The Fur Trade in Canada
An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence.
Innis has long been regarded...