Forthcoming Social Geography Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Public Space of Social Media

   Connected Cultures of the Network Society

   By Therese Tierney

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Social media is restructuring urban practices–through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation. This book is the first to consider how practices contained within social media are situated within a larger genealogy of public space, including theories...

   To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Mining and African Urbanisation

   Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories

   Edited by Deborah F Bryceson, Daniel F MacKinnon

   Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many African economies, this book focuses on the interplay of Sub-Saharan Africa mining and urbanisation in the context of global shifts in capital and...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

   Putting Research into Practice

   Edited by Carina Fearnley, Emily Wilkinson, Catherine J. Tillyard, Stephen J. Edwards

   Building upon presentations given during the conference on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice’, held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by...

   To Be Published July 23rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth

   Gender and socio-cultural differences

   Edited by Ruth Evans, Louise Holt

   Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth focuses on the diverse spaces and discourses of children and youth globally. The chapters explore the influence of gender, age and other socio-cultural differences, such as race, ethnicity and migration trajectories, on the everyday lives of children and...

   To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Children and Young People’s Relationships

   Learning across Majority and Minority Worlds

   Edited by Samantha Punch, Kay Tisdall

   This book challenges the current state of childhood studies by exploring children and young people’s agency and relationships. It considers how recent theorisations of relationships and relational processes can move childhood studies forward, particularly in relation to re-thinking claims of...

   To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Place Attachment

   Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications

   Edited by Lynne Manzo, Patrick Devine-Wright

   Place attachments are emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. These connections are a powerful aspect of human life that inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such...

   To Be Published August 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Geographies of Health, Disease and Well-being

   Recent Advances in Theory and Method

   Edited by Mei-Po Kwan

   This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on health, disease, and well-being. It spans a wide range of topics, theoretical perspectives, and methodologies - including anti-racism, post-colonialism, spatial statistics, spatiotemporal modeling,...

   To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Science of Crime Measurement

   Issues for Spatially-Referenced Crime Data

   By Andresen Martin

   Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society – but how accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other measurements of crime? What are the issues surrounding...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Tourism and Citizenship

   Rights, Freedoms and Privileges in the Global Order

   By Raoul Bianchi, Marcus Stephenson

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods

    The Rise of Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption

    Edited by Volkan Aytar, Jan Rath

    Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

    While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems, they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for numerous entrepreneurs and employees. Local and national governments and other regulatory actors, as well as the media,...

    To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge