Routledge Studies in Human Geography

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31. The Spatial Turn

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Barney Warf, Santa Arias

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained transformation. Space, place, mapping, and geographical imaginations have become commonplace topics in a variety of analytical fields in part because globalization has accentuated the significance of location. While...

    Published September 17th 2008 by Routledge
32. International Migration and Knowledge

    By Allan Williams, Vladimir Baláž

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing international migration. This book challenges pre-conceived views on the debates and argues the need to understand that all migrants...

    Published June 22nd 2008 by Routledge
33. Sensing Cities

    Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester

    By Monica Montserrat Degen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon...

    Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge
34. Time-Space Compression

    Historical Geographies

    By Barney Warf

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth’s surface, a vital part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time appear as "natural" and outside of society, they are in fact social constructions; every society develops...

    Published December 31st 2007 by Routledge
35. China on the Move

    Migration, the State, and the Household

    By C. Cindy Fan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to...

    Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge
36. Family Farms: Survival and Prospect

    A World-Wide Analysis

    By Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses...

    Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge
37. Exploring Post-Development

    Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives

    By Aram Ziai

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical...

    Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge
38. Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition

    Geographies, societies, policies

    By Tassilo Herrschel

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Since the formal raising of the Iron Curtain, there has been much interest in post-socialism and the process of post-socialist transition. This timely book provides a systematic review and analysis of the process of ‘transition’. Herrschel: explores recent theories, concepts and debates on...

    Published September 13th 2006 by Routledge
39. Rural Poverty

    Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States

    By Paul Milbourne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book...

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
40. Ageing and Place

    Edited by Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'. An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews...

    Published November 9th 2004 by Routledge