Political Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Law, Place and Maps

   Balancing Protection and Exclusion

   By Antonia Layard

   Law, Place & Maps: Balancing Protection and Exclusion analyse law’s distinctively normative contribution to place-making. In an original, cross-disciplinary, analysis drawing on scholarship in law, geography, philosophy and politics, Antonia Layard considers how, both formally and formally, law...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Geographical Transformation of China

   Edited by Michael Dunford, Liu Weidong

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book presents an account and interpretation of the transformation of the geography of China in the years since the start of China’s policy of reform and opening up as seen through the eyes of Chinese geographers. Each chapter illustrates the ways in which the particular...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Jewish-Arab City

   Spatio-politics in a mixed community

   By Haim Yacobi

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Post-Kyoto Climate Governance

   Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge

   By Asim Zia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert’s peak for oil extraction in the 21st century, the availability of technologically recoverable coal...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Rethinking Municipal Privatization

   By Oliver D. Cooke

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Cultural Politics of Europe

   European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s

   Edited by Kiran Klaus Patel

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy. It discusses both the central as well...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine

   Politics and Development

   By Maha Samman

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   Taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the dynamics of ethno-national contestation and colonialism in Israel/Palestine, this book investigates the approaches for dealing with the colonial and post-colonial urban space, resituating them within the various theoretical frameworks in colonial...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Trade Unions in the Green Economy

   Working for the Environment

   Edited by Nora Räthzel, David Uzzell

   Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists,...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Land and Food Scarcity

    Edited by Paolo De Castro, Felice Adinolfi, Fabian Capitanio, Salvatore Di Falco, Angelo Di Mambro

    Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

    In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda. Since the 2007/8 food price crisis, a number of works have been published on the topic, addressed from various perspectives: economic, social and cultural, environmental, agronomic and...

    Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge