Category: Human Geography

By Kevin R Cox

The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography provides scholars of the sub-discipline with a hugely contextualized and systematic assessment of the most recent pondering and learn. Edited through key students, with overseas contributions from said professionals at the proper examine, The SAGE instruction manual of Political Geography is divided into six sections:Scope and improvement of Political Geography; Geographies of the country; Participation and illustration; Political Geographies of distinction; Geography, coverage, and Governance; and international Political Geographies.

By Robert V. Levine

Even though it is difficult to recollect in our clock-driven age, the concept that of time is relative and versatile. Robert Levine issues out cultures feel of time has profound outcomes for an individual's mental, actual, and emotional health. vacationing round the glope, in either earlier and current occasions, he describes "clock time" against either "nature time" - the rhythm of the sunlight and the seasons - and "event time" - the structuring of time round happenings. He argues that by means of studying to embody those 3 varied perceptions of time, via constructing a "multi temporal" procedure, you possibly can get pleasure from a extra versatile and lucrative lifestyles.

By Sinead Bailey, Raymond Bryant

A good reaction to modern environmental difficulties calls for an technique that integrates political, monetary and ecological concerns. 3rd global Political Ecology presents an creation to a thrilling new learn box that goals to enhance an built-in realizing of the political economic system of environmental switch within the 3rd global. The authors assessment the old improvement of the sphere, clarify what's exact approximately 3rd global political ecology, and recommend components for destiny improvement. Clarifying the primarily politicised of environmental switch this present day, the authors discover the position of varied actors - states, multilateral associations, companies, environmental non-governmental corporations, poverty-stricken farmers, transferring cultivators and different 'grassroots' actors - within the improvement of the 3rd World's politicised surroundings. 3rd global Political Ecology is the 1st significant try to clarify the improvement and features of environmental difficulties that plague components of Asia, Africa and Latin the US. Drawing on examples from during the 3rd global, the booklet can be of curiosity to all those that desire to comprehend the political and fiscal bases of the 3rd World's present crisis.

By Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift

''The editors of this really wonderful publication appear to dare the reader to argue with them from the 1st page... i'd inspire each person drawn to cultural geography, or within the cultural flip inside an entire set of human geogrphies, to do likewise.''

--ANNALS OF THE organization of yankee GEOGRAPHERS

''A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews every thing within the means of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the sector as ''a set of engagements with the world,'' it includes a vivid atlas of ever moving chances. Throbbing with dedication, and un-disciplined within the so much optimistic experience of that time period, it really is precisely what a instruction manual should be.''--Professor Allan Pred division of Geography, college of California at Berkeley

Ten sections, with an in depth editorial advent, the instruction manual of Cultural Geography offers a entire assertion of the relation among the cultural mind's eye and the geographical mind's eye. Emphasising the highbrow range of the self-discipline, the instruction manual is a textured review that provides a cutting-edge review of the main questions informing cultural geography, whereas additionally taking a look at resonances among cultural geography and different disciplines.

By Barney Warf, Santa Arias

Around the disciplines, the learn of area has gone through a profound and sustained transformation. area, position, mapping, and geographical imaginations became typical subject matters in quite a few analytical fields partly simply because globalization has accentuated the importance of situation. whereas this variation has resulted in a renaissance in human geography, it additionally has manifested itself within the humanities and different social sciences. the aim of this e-book isn't to announce that house is important, which by means of now could be popular, yet to discover how house is analyzed by way of a number of disciplines, to match and distinction those ways, establish commonalities, and discover how and why changes appear.

The quantity comprises works through thirteen students from various nation-states and disciplines. The chapters mix up to date literature stories about the position of house in every one self-discipline and several other provide unique empirical analyses. a few chapters are serious about Geography while others discover the position of house in modern Anthropology, Sociology, faith, Political technological know-how, movie, and Cultural experiences. The advent surveys the advance of the spatial flip around the fields into consideration.

Despite widespread connection with the spatial flip, this can be the 1st quantity to explicitly deal with how concept and perform bearing on house, is utilized in a number of fields from various conceptual views. This publication will attract each person accomplishing conceptual and theoretical study on house, no longer easily in Geography, yet in comparable fields besides.

By David Timothy Duval

The Caribbean is without doubt one of the leading vacationer locations on the planet. adjustments in go back and forth styles, markets and vacationer motivations have led to enormous progress and dramatic switch to the region's tourism region. This booklet brings jointly a excessive calibre group of overseas researchers to supply an up to date evaluation of the scope of tourism and the character of tourism improvement within the Caribbean. Divided into 3 components, the book:

• gives an outline of present tourism tendencies within the region
• addresses tourism improvement concerns, together with sustainability, ecotourism, historical past tourism, neighborhood participation, administration implications, and linkages with agriculture
• considers destiny traits, together with an overview of modern international occasions and their affects on tourism within the quarter, and destiny developments by way of airlift, financial sustainability and markets.

A invaluable source for college students of tourism and Caribbean experiences, in addition to governments, and nationwide and local tourism workplaces, this topical quantity brings jointly very good contributions to evaluate and examine the country of the Caribbean tourism; prior, current and future.

By Kees van der Spek

Till their contemporary demolition, the colourful mud-brick hamlets of al-Qurna village, located one of the Noble Tombs of the Theban Necropolis at the Luxor West financial institution, have been domestic to a colourful neighborhood.
Inhabiting a spot of extensive Egyptological study for over centuries, it used to be inevitable that Qurnawis may still turn into a part of the historical past of Egyptology and the improvement of archaeological perform within the Theban Necropolis. yet they've got often been considered as employees for the excavation groups or purchasers within the illicit antiquities exchange. the fashionable humans inhabiting the traditional burial grounds have themselves hardly been considered.
By demonstrating the multiplicity of monetary actions which are performed in al-Qurna, this examine counters the villagers' stereotypical illustration as tomb robbers, and restores an figuring out of who they're as humans dwelling their lives within the shadow of valued cultural history.

By Mehtap Sooyler

The deep nation ranks one of the most crucial concerns in Turkish politics. This publication strains its origins and provides an evidence of the emergence and trajectory of the deep nation; the which means and serve as of casual and authoritarian associations within the formal protection zone of a democratic regime; the involvement of the country in equipped crime; armed clash; corruption; and big human rights violations.

This publication applies an leading edge methodological method of notion formation and provides a mid-range idea of deep nation that sheds gentle at the reciprocal courting among the country and political regimes and elaborates at the stipulations for the consolidation of democracy. It lines the path-dependent emergence and trajectory of the deep kingdom from the Ottoman Empire to the present Turkish Republic and its influence on state-society kinfolk. It reads nation formation, consolidation, and breakdown from the viewpoint of this so much resilient phenomenon of Turkish politics. The research additionally situates fresh advancements relating to AKP governments, together with the ecu accession approach, civil-military kinfolk, coup trials, the Kurdish query, and the Gülen circulate of their context in the deep kingdom. furthermore, this case-study deals an analytical framework for cross-regional comparative research of the deep states.

Addressing the lacuna in educational scholarship at the deep kingdom phenomenon in Turkey, this e-book is vital interpreting for college kids and students with an curiosity in democratization, politics and center East Studies.

By Greta Gaard

Drawing at the insights of ecology, feminism, and socialism, ecofeminism's simple premise is that the ideology that authorizes oppression in accordance with race, category, gender, sexuality, actual skills, and species is similar ideology that sanctions the oppression of nature. during this number of essays, feminist students and activists talk about the relationships between human starts off, the common atmosphere, and nonhuman animals. They reject the nature/culture dualism of patriarchal inspiration and find animals and people inside of nature. The aim of those twelve articles is to give a contribution to the evolving discussion between feminists, ecofeminists, animal liberationists, deep ecologists, and social ecologists for you to create a sustainable way of life for all population of the earth. one of the matters addressed are the conflicts among eco-friendly politics and ecofeminism, a number of purposes of ecofeminist thought, the connection of animal liberation to ecofeminism, destructive implications of the romanticized woman-nature organization in Western tradition, and cultural boundaries of ecofeminism.

By Ronda L. Brulotte

Bringing jointly cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and different students of meals and history, this quantity heavily examines the ways that the cultivation, education, and intake of foodstuff is used to create id claims of 'cultural history' on neighborhood, nearby, nationwide and foreign scales. that includes case stories from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this well timed quantity additionally addresses the advanced procedures of classifying, designating, and valorizing nutrients as 'terroir, ' 'slow meals, ' or as intangible cultural background via UNESCO. by means of successfully examining foodstuff and.  Read more...