Human geography

Economic diplomacy has become more notable in recent years, helping developing nations like Bangladesh maximise their national interests.

Cities and Digital Platforms unravels the transformative impact of digital platforms such as Airbnb and Zoom on urban landscapes, illustrating their profound influence on housing, city planning, and the broader economic fabric.

This book presents a groundbreaking examination of the intricate dynamics shaping the customized bus (CB) service industry.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes.

This book, contextualized by the violence of globalization, investigates the fungible, fugitive, and untenable experiences of Black being and time through a decolonial poethics of global*Blackness.

Landscape as Dialogue redefines the process of understanding landscapes for students and practi-tioners so they can create more integrated, healthy places.

Fondée dans le cadre de la Chaire "Interculturalités méditerranéennes", labélisée par l'UNESCO en 2023, la revue Médiations méditerranéennes est emblématique de la mission qu'elle veut remplir dans le champ des recherches et des études en rapport avec l'espace méditerranéen.

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what money means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

This innovative textbook, written by an author based in Zambia, provides an invaluable perspective on the key public health issues that Africa is facing today.

An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.

At the time of the publication of this book in its fourth edition in 1969, Ireland was alone globally in having experienced a decline of population for more than a century.

This volume addresses livelihood vulnerabilities due to climate change-induced socio-environmental stresses among different communities in various geographical locations in India, and discusses how the people and communities can become resilient to these stresses.

In Somatic States, Franck Bille examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders.

Sovereignty is a term used by stateless people seeking decolonization as well as by dominant social groups struggling to reassert their socially privileged positions.

This book explores the geographies of (in-)security for ordinary Chinese.

This book brings together diverse perspectives from a range of geographic settings and feature contributions from some of the key thinkers in the field.

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty.

The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre.

This book examines various trends in small-scale societies in Laos by linking population changes to livelihood changes.

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work.

This innovative textbook, written by an author based in Zambia, provides an invaluable perspective on the key public health issues that Africa is facing today.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

Problem Society is an essential introduction to the many facets of divided societies.

City walks enable us to think and feel more intricately, and by living through them – hopefully less ostentatiously - through experiences and relations that genuinely matter.

This volume explores the political geographies of children and young people and aims to cement this research area within human geography and beyond.

The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of 'safe and accessible places of encounter'.

This volume addresses livelihood vulnerabilities due to climate change-induced socio-environmental stresses among different communities in various geographical locations in India, and discusses how the people and communities can become resilient to these stresses.

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories-a place that has grown enormously through "e;creative class"e; strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness.

In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama.

This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.

City walks enable us to think and feel more intricately, and by living through them – hopefully less ostentatiously - through experiences and relations that genuinely matter.

The book focuses on the urban dimension of "e;global China"e;, especially regarding the impacts of its urbanising dynamics on the (re)imaginings and manifestations of global urban futures.

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what money means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography.

Originally published in 1938, this book was the first to cover the history of geographical thought.

This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.