Introducing Human Geographies, First Edition - Brossura

Cloke, Paul; Crang, Philip; Goodwin, Mark

 
9780340691939: Introducing Human Geographies, First Edition

Sinossi

'Introducing Human Geographies' provides an innovative, comprehensive and stimulating first-year introduction to human geography. This major new textbook introduces some of the flavour and excitement of human geography today, playing not only to recognisable subfields but also making accessible some of the more contemporary developments which form the cutting edge of the discipline.



This new undergraduate textbook is structured around three main sections. The first - Foundations - works through a number of underlying debates that are stimulating much contemporary innovation within human geography. The second - Themes - provides a sub-disciplinarily structured account of this innovation, outlining its contribution to questions of development, economy, environment, history, politics, society, and culture. The final section - Contexts - highlights how these questions come together in work on particular 'spaces' and 'places', emphasising how much of the best contemporary work in human geography blurs traditional sub-disciplinary distinctions.

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Recensione

The chapters are short, clearly written, of high quality, with a wealth of excellent visual material to help make key points in a variety of ways and a glossary of key terms at the end.
Progress in Human Geography

Written in a clear and easily approachable manner, striking an appropriate balance between explaining concepts and providing examples from past and contemporary geographical research...in a well-structured format. It will prove useful for students wishing to dip into specific areas of geographical research as well as being a comprehensive introductory text for first year undergraduates.
Scottish Geographical Journal

Contenuti

Part 1 - Foundations
Society-nature
Society-space
Local-global
Structure-agency
Self-other
Image-reality
Part 2 - Themes
Section 1 - Geographies of Development
Development, post-development and global political-economy
Survival and resistance
Re-thinking development
Section 2 - Economic geographies
Production
Money and finance
Consumption
Section 3 - Environmental geographies
Environmental problems and management
Environmental knowledges and environmentalism
Sustainability
Section 4 - Historical geographies
Modernity and modernisation
Geographical understanding and the modern world
Memory and heritage
Section 5 - Political geographies
Critical geopolitics
Citizenship and governance
Nationalism
Section 6 - Social and cultural geographies
Place
Imaginative geographies
Landscapes
Part 3 - Contexts
The body
The city
The country
Europe
Colonialism and postcolonialism
Migrations and diasporas
Travel and tourism
Commodities
The media
Cyberspace.

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9780340691922: Introducing Human Geographies, First Edition

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0340691921 ISBN 13:  9780340691922
Casa editrice: Routledge, 1999
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