This book explores the tension between analogue and digital as part of an evolving research programme and focuses on the sequencing of methods within it.
Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel.
This book presents an essential non-western geopolitical landscape and draws on the conceptual framework of critical geopolitics to discuss the views on terrorism held by various groups of Chinese people, including the elite, middle class, and masses.
This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens.
This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use.
This book is the first to focus on state-led 'extractive bargains,' designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated.
This book documents the practice-led research of painting as a peripatetic art practice through travel and transient life in Australia, India, and Pakistan.
This book is the latest and most comprehensive reference to the regional geography of Spain, taking into account emergent issues such as biodiversity, climate change and nationalism.
Weltweite Krisenphänomene wie der Klimawandel, der rapide Schwund von Tier- und Pflanzenarten sowie der Verlust wertvoller Böden verdeutlichen, dass sozial-ökologische Transformationen nötig sind – insbesondere in wohlhabenden Staaten wie Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.
This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives.
This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation.
This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors.
This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
In one of the few studies to draw upon cemetery data to reconstruct the social organization, social change, and community composition of a specific area, this volume contributes to the growing body of sociohistorical examinations of Appalachia.
This book offers a unique blend of writing from a broad range of international perspectives, showing interdisciplinary research approaches to decolonising curriculum knowledge.
This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors.
The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities' world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments.
This work book contributes to the knowledge about human settlements in the Isla Grande of Tierra Del Fuego by the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited the area until the early twentieth century.
This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law - namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law - to address the international legal protection of historically significant wrecks, with particular focus on the environmental hazards they may pose.
Die Geschichte Kaliforniens und dessen räumliche Strukturierung lassen sich als Entstehung, Zurückweisung, Forcierung und Nutzung von Hybridisierungen lesen.
This book introduces an inventory of proposed cultural landscapes in Israel, which have been identified, researched and mapped by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
This contributed volume provides case studies from around the world that feature a convergence of indigenous and western knowledge in an attempt to understand complex socio-ecological systems.
This book investigates both early as well as recent accounts of journeys by women and families in African, Asian, East European, North and Latin American contexts.
This book analyses the development of geography as a scientific discipline in Brazil, highlighting how the established partnerships with French geographers have helped shape scientific progress in the country.
Loic Wacquant is one of the most influential sociological theorists of the contemporary era with his research and writings resonating widely across the social sciences.
An der Strukturierung der Stadt nach neoliberalen und auf Standortvorteile abzielende Marktmechanismen sind viele verschiedene Akteur:innen, Behörden, Institutionen und „beschwerdemächtige“ Interessengruppen beteiligt.
This book examines the dynamics of the relational and spatial politics of contemporary French theatrical production, with a focus on four theatres in the Greater Paris region.
Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.
Focusing on Brazil, this book approaches the term "e;heritage"e; from not only a historical and architectural point of view, but also considers its artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects.
This book addresses some of the most urgent global problems in today's world from a geographical perspective and highlights contemporary environmental, political, economic, social and geoethical aspects.
Der TübingenAtlas visualisiert und kommentiert kultur- und sozialgeographische Aspekte Tübingens und befördert überraschende und teilweise nicht ganz ernst gemeinte Einsichten.
