Remaking Human Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Remaking Human Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: Audrey Kobayashi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1317907035

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This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives. As a cohesive collection of chapters from well-known geographers in Britain and North America, it reflects the aims of the contributors in striving to bridge the gap between the historical-materialist and humanist interpretations of human geography. The book deals with both the contemporary issues outlined above and the situation in which they emerge: industrial restructuring, planning, women’s issues, social and cultural practices and the landscape as context for social action.


Remaking Human Geography

Remaking Human Geography

Author: Audrey Lynn Kobayashi

Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The aim of the contributors to this collection of chapters from the writings of well-known British and north American geographers is to bridge the gap between the historical-materialist and humanist interpretations of human geography. The book is aimed at sociologists, planners and geographers.


The Power of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

The Power of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: Jennifer Wolch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1317819926

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This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction – gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book’s contribution is the concept of society as a ‘time-space’ fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.


The Power of Geography

The Power of Geography

Author: Jennifer Wolch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781138989689

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This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book's contribution is the concept of society as a 'time-space' fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.


Handbook of Cultural Geography

Handbook of Cultural Geography

Author: Kay Anderson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780761969259

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"The editors of this genuinely brilliant book seem to dare the reader to argue with them from the first page... I would encourage everyone interested in cultural geography, or in the cultural turn within a whole set of human geogrphies, to do likewise." --ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS "A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities. Throbbing with commitment, and un-disciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be." --Professor Allan Pred Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley Ten sections, with a detailed editorial introduction, the Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive statement of the relation between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook is a textured overview that presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography, while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines.


Humanistic Geography (RLE Social and Cultural Geography)

Humanistic Geography (RLE Social and Cultural Geography)

Author: David Ley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780415734868

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Humanistic geography now has an established position in the intellectual development of contemporary geography. However there has so far been little attempt to draw together the humanistic approach in one broad statement. This book by the leading figures in the field provides a platform for the exposition of humanistic geography in all its aspects.


The Cultural Geography Reader

The Cultural Geography Reader

Author: Timothy Oakes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-03

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1134113161

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The Cultural Geography Reader draws together fifty-two classic and contemporary abridged readings that represent the scope of the discipline and its key concepts. Readings have been selected based on their originality, accessibility and empirical focus, allowing students to grasp the conceptual and theoretical tools of cultural geography through the grounded research of leading scholars in the field. Each of the eight sections begins with an introduction that discusses the key concepts, its history and relation to cultural geography and connections to other disciplines and practices. Six to seven abridged book chapters and journal articles, each with their own focused introductions, are also included in each section. The readability, broad scope, and coverage of both classic and contemporary pieces from the US and UK makes The Cultural Geography Reader relevant and accessible for a broad audience of undergraduate students and graduate students alike. It bridges the different national traditions in the US and UK, as well as introducing the span of classic and contemporary cultural geography. In doing so, it provides the instructor and student with a versatile yet enduring benchmark text.


Humanistic Geography and Literature

Humanistic Geography and Literature

Author: Douglas C. D. Pocock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781138972148

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This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.


Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: Douglas C. D. Pocock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1317906322

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This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.


Cultural Geography

Cultural Geography

Author: Donald Mitchell

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2000-06-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781557868923

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This book provides a critical evaluation of the transformation of cultural geography which has occurred over the past two decades. Cultural Geography explains cultural change in different geographical settings, from the politics of everyday life to the production and consumption of landscapes, to the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and nationality. Analyses recent transformations in cultural geographic theory, whilst salvaging the most valuable aspects of older traditions. Encourages debate over the ideology of culture, the production of value and the role of cultural struggle in reproducing social life. Illustrates cultural geographic theory using examples of contemporary "culture wars". Adopts an approach which is both accessible and meaningful to the advanced student, by relating difficult concepts to contemporary issues.