Human geography

The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the 'knowledge economy' has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years.

This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis about the history, urban development, planning, and preservation of the Lhasa city over the last thirteen centuries.

This book is a record of the Black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

In the last two decades, various states from the Global South have emerged as important players in international relations.

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the "e;Horizontal Metropolis"e; concept.

This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities.

Originally published in 1989, America's Suburban Centers looks at how America's suburban workplaces are being increasingly designed for automobiles rather than people.

Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls.

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations.

This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements.

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.

This book constitutes a landmark attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, a policy-focused approach to the many timely and important issues associated with building a culture of disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction.

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow.

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography.

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades.

Based on a collaborative research project - an exciting fruit of the region's peace process - this book provides an in-depth examination and comparison of women's participation in agricultural production in four Middle-Eastern countries: Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel.

The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area.

This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour.

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world.

A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them.

This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development - past, present and future.

Cet ouvrage décrit le contexte de la prostitution dans les pays du tiers-monde, l'essor du tourisme sexuel, les conditions de vie des femmes et des enfants prostitués et leur attitude face au risque du sida.

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it perceives as a threat to its rule, especially academics, journalists, politicians, actors, directors, i.

Much of the existing literature seeks to make sense of tourism based on singular approaches such as visuality, identity, mobility, performance and globalised consumption.

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development.

This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region.

Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s.

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period.

This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India.

Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America.

This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India.

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years.

The literature on 'world cities' has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike.

Coming Home Your Way offers college and university students returning from an education-abroad experience a wealth of pertinent information, opportunities for meaningful reflection, and practical guidance on making the most of their time abroad.

Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of future generations and our responsibility for their wellbeing is becoming a central issue.

Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.

Presenting multidisciplinary and global insights, this book explores the nexus between economies, institutions, and territories and how global phenomena have local consequences.

The robots are coming!

There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments.

Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies.

The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, has generated considerable media interest - interest which was revived by further expansion in January 2007 when Bulgaria and Romania became the latest nations from the east to join.

This volume presents a collection of articles which offer different perspectives for archaeological pottery studies, regarding the understanding of pre-Hispanic social practices in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina.

This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making.

This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings.

Although the Arab states of the Persian Gulf are leaders in many of the measures of absolute wealth that have traditionally defined success in the global economy, they have had a much harder time becoming accepted in the equally fractured and hierarchal realm of the cultural economy, where practices, signs, and perceptions of propriety matter.