Human Geography category: 3213 books
Spaces of Sustainability
Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Spaces of Sustainability is an engaging and accessible introduction to the key philosophical ideas which lie behind the principles of sustainable development. This topical resource discusses key contemporary issues including global warming, third world poverty, transnational citizenship and globalization.
Combining...
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities
From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...
Theories of Resistance
Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Space is never a neutral ‘stage’ on which social actors play their roles, sometimes cooperating with each other, sometimes struggling against each other. Space has multiple and complex functions in the development of social relations, it is a reference for identity-building, a material condition...
Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
Spectres of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding...
by J. John Lowe, Michael J.C Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical...
Citizenship, Activism and the City
The Invisible and the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Were the occupations of 2010–11 – from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street – a success or failure? Are they the model for urban radical politics? This book challenges common understandings and underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and resistance. It proposes a critical...
Thinking Through the Environment
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this...
Interpreting Nature
Cultural Constructions of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know...
A Favored Place
San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The wetlands of the San Juan Basin in Central Veracruz, Mexico, have been a favored place since the fifth century A.D., when Prehispanic people built an extensive network of canals and raised fields that allowed for almost year-round agriculture. Alfred Siemens' discovery of the remains of this network...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book explores the place of nationalism in the modern world. It looks at the relationships between nationalism, politics and states, explores the rise of minority national movements and the problems they cause, and discusses the problems of national integration in particular countries. It analyses...
Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety
9/11, the Global Financial Crisis and ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today’s highly global society. Young people face their futures consumed with feelings of doubt, uncertainty and ambivalence. The Global Financial Crisis and the rise of the Islamic State means young people...
Alternative Capitalisms: Geographies of Emerging Regions
Geographies of emerging regions
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Globalisation has not led to the ‘death of geography’. Intensified relations between communities in different parts of the world have only highlighted the need for understanding and managing phenomena on a variety of geographic scales. From global warming to credit crunch, and from epidemics to...
Political Street Art
Communication, culture and resistance in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Recent global events, including the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings, Occupy movements and anti-austerity protests across Europe have renewed scholarly and public interest in collective action, protest strategies and activist subcultures. We know that social movements do not just contest and politicise...