Geography

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds

Geography and the Humanities

Edited by Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Doug Richardson

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping...

Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge

GeoHumanities

Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

Edited by Michael Dear, Jim Ketchum, Sarah Luria, Doug Richardson

In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting...

Published April 13th 2011 by Routledge

Managing Cultural Landscapes

Edited by Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With...

Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge

Memorylands

Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

By Sharon Macdonald

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...

Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge

Rethinking Maps

New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory

Edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It...

Published June 7th 2011 by Routledge

Mobile Interface Theory

Embodied Space and Locative Media

By Jason Farman

Mobile media – from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks – are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more using our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is...

Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge

Geographies of Children, Youth and Families

An International Perspective

Edited by Louise Holt

This edited collection brings together international experts from the vibrant and growing field of geographies of children, youth and families. Designed as an introduction to the topic, this book provides an overview of current conceptual and theoretical debates surrounding geographies of children...

Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development

An Introduction

By Jay Mitra

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development is unique in that it addresses the central factors in economic development – entrepreneurship, innovation and organizational learning – as regional phenomena. This definitive text focuses on different types of organizations to illustrate the...

Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge

Ethnography and the City

Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork

Edited by Richard E. Ocejo

Series: The Metropolis and Modern Life

The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the City will expose readers to important works in...

Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge

Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods

Connecting People, Participation and Place

Edited by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, representing a major epistemological challenge to...

Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge

Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum

Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography

By Alex Standish

‘For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish’s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography...

Published October 6th 2008 by Routledge

Economic Geography

By William P. Anderson

Economic geographers study and attempt to explain the spatial configuration of economic activities, including the production of goods and services, their transfer from one economic agent to another and their transformation into utility by consumers. The spatial configuration, which includes both...

Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Spaces of Social Exclusion

By Jamie Gough, Aram Eisenschitz, Andrew McCulloch

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...

Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge

Globalization's Contradictions

Geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation

Edited by Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen

Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks...

Published August 16th 2006 by Routledge

Place-Based Education in the Global Age

Local Diversity

Edited by David A. Gruenewald, Gregory A. Smith

"Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what progressive education can be at its best and how education can be reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely democratic and sustainable society.... It is the...

Published August 12th 2007 by Routledge

The People's Property?

Power, Politics, and the Public.

By Lynn Staeheli, Donald Mitchell

The People’s Property? is the first book-length scholarly examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and peopling of public space are central to the development of publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks the questions: Why does it matter who owns public...

Published August 13th 2007 by Routledge

Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond

The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary, 2nd Edition

By Joseph Nevins

This is a major revision and update of Nevins’ earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up to...

Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge

Transnationalism

By Steven Vertovec

Series: Key Ideas

'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter...

Published March 26th 2009 by Routledge

Ethnographies Revisited

Constructing Theory in the Field

Edited by Antony J. Puddephatt, William Shaffir, Steven W. Kleinknecht

Ethnographies Revisited provides first-hand accounts of how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies. Great ethnographic research lies not in the rigid execution of prescribed methodological procedures, but on the unrelenting...

Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge

Social Movements and Activism in the USA

By Stephen Valocchi

What can we learn when we listen closely to and engage in dialogue with social movement activists? Social Movements and Activism in the USA addresses this question for a group of progressive activists in Hartford, Connecticut, who do community, labor, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace, and...

Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge

Tackling Social Exclusion

2nd Edition

By John Pierson

The concept of social exclusion has been a central focus of government policy for the past ten years and is now at the core of much practitioner activity. Thoroughly updated, this much needed second edition shows how social workers can combat the social exclusion experienced by service users...

Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge