Human Geography category: 3213 books
Non-Representational Theory & Health
The Health in Life in Space-Time Revealing
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency in the making of everyday life.
This book offers an agenda for health geography, providing the...
by John Wylie, John Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive traditions of landscape writing are brought...
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally...
A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
Toward a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text offers a comprehensive examination of North America’s physical and human geography, weaving in the key themes of environment and sustainability throughout. The authors explore the challenges each region faces, such as water shortages, climate...
by Paul C. Adams, Jim Craine
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media geography’s first dedicated journal,...
Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk
The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book presents a range of academic research and personal reflections on the Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015. For the first time, perspectives from geography, disaster risk reduction, cultural heritage protection, archaeology, anthropology, social work, health and emergency response...
Feminisms in Geography
Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
In this innovative reader, Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi present a unique, reflective approach to what feminist geography is and who feminist geographers are. Their carefully crafted textbook invigorates feminist debates about space, place, and knowledges with a fine balance among teaching...
Critical Geographies of Sport
Space, Power and Sport in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport, bringing together research in geography, sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical...
The Geography of Underdevelopment
A Critical Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material conditions.
The...
Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development
Volume 1: Regional Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives. Papers go beyond explanations of methods, technique and traditional applications to explore new intersections in the dynamic relationship between the utilization...
by Jamie Gough, Aram Eisenschitz, Andrew McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
To varying extents in developed countries a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. Britain’s Labour government in particular has sought to deal with this through the notion of 'social exclusion', and similar ideas have been developed in other countries. This important text explores...
Carceral Geography
Spaces and Practices of Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The ’punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas,...
The Geography of Madness
Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”?
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by Brendan Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown...