Virtual Geographies
Virtual Geographies

Author: Mike Crang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1134703740

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This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature: * investigate how visions of cyberspace have been constructed * offer a critical assessment of the status of virtual environments and geographies * explore how virtual environments reshape the way we think and write about the world. This book sets recent technological developments in a historical and geographical perspective to offer a clearer view of the new vistas ahead.

A Dictionary of Human Geography
A Dictionary of Human Geography

Author: Noel Castree

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0199599866

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This new dictionary provides over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography, covering basic terms and concepts as well as biographies, organisations, and major periods and schools. Authoritative and accessible, this is a must-have for every student of human geography, as well as for professionals and interested members of the public.

Geographies of Knowledge and Power
Geographies of Knowledge and Power

Author: Peter Meusburger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9401799601

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Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the acquisition, support, and legitimization of power. Topics include the control and manipulation of knowledge through centers of power in historical contexts, the geopolitics of knowledge about world politics, media control in twentieth century, cartography in modern war, the power of words, the changing face of Islamic authority, and the role of Millennialism in the United States. This book offers insights from disciplines such as geography, anthropology, scientific theology, Assyriology, and communication science.

Geographies of the Book
Geographies of the Book

Author: Professor Charles W J Withers

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1409488543

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The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spatial dimensions of book history, to the transformation of texts as they are made and moved from place to place, from authors to readers and within different communities and cultures of reception. Widespread recognition of the significance of place, of the effects of movement over space and of the importance of location to the making and reception of print culture has been a feature of recent book history work, and draws in many instances upon studies within the history of science as well as geography. 'Geographies of the Book' explores the complex relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically) and the ways in which they are received.

Geopolitics
Geopolitics

Author: Saul Bernard Cohen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780742556768

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Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological and economic forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War. Saul Bernard Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations.

Subaltern Geographies
Subaltern Geographies

Author: Tariq Jazeel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-08-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 019890844X

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Subaltern Geographies explores the intersection between subaltern studies and cultural, urban, historical, and political geography to unravel subaltern perspectives, acknowledging the intricacies involved in conceiving and representing these spaces.

The Relational Economy
The Relational Economy

Author: Harald Bathelt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-06-23

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0199587388

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How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? This book synthesizes theories from across the social sciences with empirical research and case studies in order to answer this question.

Approaches to Human Geography
Approaches to Human Geography

Author: Stuart Aitken

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-01-06

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1446222772

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Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in human geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. In three sections, the text provides: · A comprehensive contexualising essay: Introducing Philosophies, People and Practices · Philosophies: written by the principal proponents, easily comprehensible accounts of: Positivistic Geographies; Humanism; Feminist Geographies; Marxism; Structuration Theory; Behavioral Geography; Realism; Post Structuralist Theories; Actor-Network Theory; and Post Colonialism · People: prominent geographers explain events that formed their ways of knowing; the section offers situated accounts of theory and practice by, for example: David Ley; Linda McDowell; and David Harvey · Practices: applied accounts of Quantification, Evidence and Positivism; Geographic Information Systems; Humanism; Geography, Political Activism, and Marxism; the Production of Feminist Geographies; Poststructuralist Theory; Environmental Inquiry in a Postcolonial World; Contested Geographies · Student Exercises and Glossary Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge – the text is written for students who have not met philosophical or theoretical approaches before. This is a beginning guide to geographic research and practice. Comprehensive and accessible, it will be the core text for courses on Approaches to Human Geography; Philosophy and Geography; and the History of Geography; and a key resource for students beginning research projects.

Hybrid Geographies
Hybrid Geographies

Author: Sarah Whatmore

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002-11-04

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780761965671

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Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relationship between human and non-human, the social and the material, showing how they are intimately and variously linked. General arguments, informed by work in critical geography, feminist theory, environmental ethics, and science studies are illustrated throughout with detailed case-study material.

The Relations of History and Geography
The Relations of History and Geography

Author: Henry Clifford Darby

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780859896993

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This set of twelve previously unpublished essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas. The essays are divided into three quartets of studies relating to England, France and the United States.