Human geography

This collection of papers, originally published in 1981, reviews and evaluates past and possible future advances in a field of central importance to human geography: behavioral geography.

Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization.

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in order to eliminate the disadvantages it created for the health of black people at both micro and macro levels.

This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home.

Shaped by encrusted layers of development spanning millennia, the southern Italian city of Matera is the ultimate palimpsest.

In this important theoretical contribution to the area of refugee studies based on ethnographic field work among Kurdish refugees, the author has uniquely combined empirical evidence and contemporary sociological theories of diasporas and transnationalism.

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities.

Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture.

Originally published in 1991.

American Space/American Place offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century.

First published in 1986.

This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory.

This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes.

How can we theorise partitions differently?

Will 'making a Living' remain a dream for the deprived and excluded?

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

Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals' lived experience and human-animal encounter.

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation.

Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic development of many societies.

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world.

The growing market penetration of Internet mapping, satellite imaging and personal navigation has opened up great research and business opportunities to geospatial communities.

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now.

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration.

Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility.

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity.

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world.

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant.

Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies which present social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia.

Undertaken as part of the National Science Foundation's call for research associated with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this volume contains research that addresses the immediate role and utility of geographical information and technologies in emergency management.

At this western corner of the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the busy river Hooghly, West Bengal in eastern India lies a geography that has hosted many outsiders - traders, merchants, colonial masters, missionaries and wanderers.

An attempt to redraw our mental maps of global politics through the prism of ''post-internationalism''.

Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.

Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people's political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways.

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda.

This title was first published in 2003.

The Juan Fernandez Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33(deg) S latitude.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable.

As it becomes clear that climate change is not easily within the boundaries of the 1990's, society needs to be prepared and needs to anticipate future changes due to the uncertain changes in climate.

Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies.

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability.

Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space.

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

At a time of intense theoretical debates in urban studies, the research practices underlying such theories have not received the same attention.

This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa.

Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography.

The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike.

Examines the structural evolution of the Earth's crust from the Triassic period to the present.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies.