The Geography of Crime (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
The Geography of Crime (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: David J. Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1317907302

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This book presents original research into contemporary geographical aspects of the study of crime. The contributors, drawn from different disciplines within the social sciences and from various countries, give a review of the subject which provides a valuable insight into the geography of crime. Their approaches range from the behavioural to the environmental, and the crimes dealt with include violent crime and residential burglary. The book examines data sources, discusses different crimes and ways of studying them and considers the fear of crime. The criminal justice system in the UK is examined in detail, including policy, the operations of community and police committees and an account of the experience of crime prevention policies in Britain and North America is also given.

Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: David Ley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317820525

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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.

David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: John L. Paterson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317906535

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The emphasis of this book is to explore two major philosophical influences in contemporary human geography, namely logical positivism and Marxism, and to explore the relationships between philosophy, methodology and geographical research. Rather than being a biography of David Harvey, the book contributes to the understanding of one of the most innovative and iconoclastic scholars in contemporary Anglo-American human geography.

Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Author: Loretta Lees

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1800883498

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With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.

The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: John A. Agnew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1317907396

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Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying them and the links between them. The sociological imagination aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical uses. They show that place is as important for understanding contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also show how the concept can provide insight into ‘old’ problems such as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice. The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept that can ‘mediate’ the geographical and sociological imaginations.

The Social Geography of Medicine and Health (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
The Social Geography of Medicine and Health (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Author: John Eyles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317907272

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This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography. It sets the central problems of medical geography in a broad social context as well as in a spatial one and analyses changing conceptions of health and illness in detail. It also explores the pathological relationship between people and their environment and illustrates that social phenomena form spatial patterns which provide a good starting point for the examination of the relationship between medicine, health and society.

Spatialized Islamophobia
Spatialized Islamophobia

Author: Kawtar Najib

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1000468704

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This book demonstrates the spatialized and multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia. It provides ground-breaking insights in recognising the importance of space in the formation of anti-Muslim racism. Through the exploration of complementary data, both from existing quantitative databases and directly from victims of Islamophobia, applied in two important European capitals - Paris and London - this book brings new materials to research on Islamophobia and argues that Islamophobia is also a spatialized process that occurs at various interrelated spatial scales: globe, nation, urban, neighbourhood and body (and mind). In so doing, this book establishes and advances the new concept of ‘Spatialized Islamophobia’ by exploring global, national, urban, infra-urban, embodied and emotional Islamophobias as well as their complex interrelationships. It also offer a critical discussion of the geographies of Islamophobia by pointing out the lack of geographical approaches to Islamophobia Studies. By using self-reflexivity, the author raises important questions that may have hampered the study of ‘Spatialized Islamophobia’, focusing in particular on the favoured methodologies which too often remain qualitative, as well as on the whiteness of the discipline of Geography which can disrupt the legitimacy of a certain knowledge. The book will be an important reference for those in the fields of Human Geography, Sociology, Politics, Racial Studies, Religious Studies and Muslim studies.

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN GEOGRAPHY The Evolution of MAN from Man First Edition
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN GEOGRAPHY The Evolution of MAN from Man First Edition

Author: Dr. Asutosh Goswami

Publisher: insta Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 9395037482

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: Human Gegraphy is a wide-ranging subfield that is intertwined with virtually every other academic field. The spatial perspective is this connection, which basically means that if a phenomenon can be mapped, it has some connection to Geography. Geographical knowledge is essential to a competent comprehension of our global environment, and the study of the entire world is an intriguing field. In this section, a reader will realize what topography is as well as a portion of the crucial ideas that support the discipline. As you progress through the subsequent chapters, a solid understanding of these fundamental terms and ideas is essential because they will be interwoven throughout the text. This textbook is an introduction to the study of Human Geography. It gives new geographers a simple way to get started in the field while also encouraging readers to dig deeper and learn more.

Disability Hate Crime
Disability Hate Crime

Author: Leah Burch

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1040144683

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Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the victimology of disability hate crime (DHC). For the first time, this book brings together recent academic thought, the stance of those working for the United Nations to further the rights of disabled people, and a helpful toolkit on how to advance the status of the disabled victim of hate crime. Campaigners, support workers, and legal scholars present a tangential approach to revealing the plight of disabled victims and their associates. The book will reveal the expertise required to understand experiences of victimisation and how to help reconstruct the lives of those affected by this type of violence. Never before has a book produced such a nuanced and multidisciplinary approach to discussing disability hate crime. This volume will be useful not only for those academically interested in how disability hate crime is perpetrated but also for scholars who wish to study how to raise awareness and lobby for change. It is essential reading for those engaged with hate studies, victimology, disability, and vulnerable communities, as well as practitioners and campaigners.

Architecture, Mentalities and Meaning
Architecture, Mentalities and Meaning

Author: Patrick Malone

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-06-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1351675362

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In order to function, architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural, economic, and political forces. Thus, architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes – which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that must conform to a set of immediate conditions. This book focuses on meaning, and on the physical and mental processes that define life in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from aesthetics, psychology, political economy, philosophy, geography, and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is inevitably reductive, cultural, socio-economic, and political. However, despite the duty to conform, it is argued that the treatment of human processes, and the understanding of architectural mentalities, can benefit from interdisciplinary linkages, small freedoms, and cracks in a system of imperatives that can yield the means of greater objectivity. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in architectural theory as a working reality, and in the relationships between architecture and other fields.