Human Geography category: 3213 books
More than the Soil
Rural Change in SE Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia. The underlying premise is that rural lives and livelihoods in this region have undergone fundamental change. No longer can we assume that rural livelihoods...
Global Boundaries
World Boundaries Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by David Arnold, Sharad Chari, David Featherstone
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. This edited volume explores this relationship...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants...
Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making
Thinking Through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and material. It examines the sites and performances of a wide range of therapeutic art practices, including painting and drawing, dance movement therapy, fibre...
The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka
Impacts and Policy in the Shadow of Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is based on empirical research in Sri Lanka conducted after the catastrophic tsunami which hit the country in December 2004. The aims of the research have been to develop new knowledge on post-crisis reconstruction and recovery work, on how to bridge the knowledge gap between researchers...
The Language Of Environment
A New Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Nile Waters, Saharan Sands
Adventures of a Geomorphologist at Large
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
In this book, the author describes in simple, non-technical terms the adventures he has experienced during his work as an earth scientist in some of the remote parts of the arid and semi-arid world. His aim in writing this concise account of some of the work he has been involved in over the past fifty...
The Mediterranean
Environment and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a recognisable geographic entity. Sixteen chapters each deal with a major geographical...
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk
Beyond Fragmented Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In discussing...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.
The series allows the non-specialist student...
The Radicalization of Pedagogy
Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
How do activists learn radical politics? Does the increasing neoliberalisation of education limit the possibilities of transgressive pedagogies? And in what contexts have anarchist geographers successfully shaped alternative pedagogic practices?
Pedagogy is central to geographical knowledge...
Green History
A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green fascism/socialism/anarchism,...
Women's Lifeworlds
Women's Narratives on Shaping their Realities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words. Examining the changing meaning of 'place' in women's lives over time and across space, this book questions how women face, negotiate and shape the social space...