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Beyond the map : unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias
\"In Beyond the Map, Bonnett presents stories of the world's most extraordinary spaces--many unmarked on any official map--all of which challenge our assumptions about what we know--or think we know--about our world\"--Book jacket.
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Left in the past : radicalism and the politics of nostalgia
Looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left.
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An uncommon atlas : 50 new views of our physical, cultural and political world
\"A stunning geographical exploration of our world through 50 unique maps. Modern satellite and geographical technology has enabled the world to be researched in new and incredible detail. From measuring species diversity to monitoring land shifts, our physical and sociological world is mapped like never before. Includes 50 specially commissioned maps that examine our world in a beautifully visual and fascinating way. Alastair Bonnett accompanies each map with a vivid essay that provides detailed insight into how the planet has changed and what it may look like in the future. From examining new deserts and charting airspace, to revealing emerging lands and measuring each continent's natural treasures, each map showcases an important part of our world's history, sociology and of course, geography\"-- Provided by publisher.
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What geography lessons will look like in 2075
Today \"Geo-graphy' is often defined as \"Earth-writing\", the two capital letters signalling a sole and singular focus on the Blue Marble. The power of maps The study of other planets, and their potentially habitable moons, will probably be a staple of geography lessons in 2075. The power of maps is on an upward curve and if the future is even more data-driven and spatially connected than the present, the role of maps will continue to expand. Geography lessons in 2075 will demand that both students and teachers are savvier, which means being more technically proficient and more at home with data, its uses and misuses. [...]with the rise to prominence and power of non-Western countries, there will be a shift from ascribing moral value to diversity and multiculturalism, from thinking of these things simply as 'good' or \"nice to have' to thinking of them as facts, with uncertain consequences.
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The enchanted path: magic and modernism in psychogeographical walking
Geographers have a developing interest in the place of enchantment and the 'extra-ordinary' in the modern city. The paper shows that magic has a significant role in the work of many psychogeographical writers, artists and activists, and argues that this phenomenon needs to be understood in the context of the wider use of magic as a site and symbol of creativity and subversion in modernist cultural expression. Drawing on a survey of British psychogeographical forms and a more detailed study of three London literary examples, it examines how psychogeographical walkers have expanded and developed 'magical modernism'. Across the varied terrain of psychogeographical walking, magic is used to conjure an openness and vulnerability to voices 'hidden' in the landscape. As well as providing more in-depth discussion of these themes, the three examples of London psychogeography that I explore complicate them by illustrating further specific and diverse uses of magic - namely, magic as environmentalist critique, magic as humour/humour as magic and magic as activism.
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Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements
This paper examines the relationship between a desire to create novel living arrangements and yearning for a 'better' past. It is argued that a critical engagement with nostalgia can be used to open up issues of historical persistence and ambiguity. The paper draws on exploratory analysis carried out on examples of three emerging forms of residential space (the new urbanism, home zones and cohousing). The paper seeks to identify the contradictions and paradoxes that can be found in the material development of neo-traditional homes and communities. In contrast to dismissive or purely instrumental approaches, the analysis reveals the diverse and ambivalent ways in which nostalgia resides at the heart of belonging and attachment. In sum, the aim is both to expand the debate on novel living arrangements and to promote greater openness and honesty in acknowledging the role of attachments to the past in refiguring new forms of urban co-existence.
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What is geography?
This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that define the subject, What is Geography? demonstrates how and why these themes - like environment and geopolitics- are of fundamental importance. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes like environment, space, and place - as well as geography′s methods and the history of the discipline.
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Mobile nostalgias: connecting visions of the urban past, present and future amongst ex-residents
Drawing on interviews with ex-residents of Tyneside (United Kingdom), this paper builds on recent reappraisals of nostalgia as a 'productive' and 'living' disposition, to show how fond memories and a sense of loss shape and sustain engagement with the city. In contrast to recent attempts to identify active nostalgia only with its 'reflective' forms, or to separate out 'official' and 'non-official' nostalgia, the paper demonstrates that nostalgias are mobile and interwoven. It is shown that 'restorative' and 'reflective' forms can co-exist and state-led practices of conservation be maintained in a complex and mutually sustaining relationship with more personal, less official, visions of the value of the past. Thus it is argued that urban nostalgia for the city needs to be acknowledged as a potentially critical intervention that draws together different modes of attachment and yearning.
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Anti-Racism
This introductory text provides students for the first time with an historical and international analysis of the development of anti-racism. Drawing on sources from around the world, the author explains the roots and describes the practice of anti-racism in Western and non-Western societies from Britain and the United States to Malaysia and Peru. Topics covered include: * the historical roots of anti-racism * race issues within organisations * the practice of anti-racism * the politics of backlash. This lively, concise book will be an indispensable resource for all students interested in issues of race, ethnicity and in contemporary society more generally.
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Geography: What's the big idea?
The author believes that geography is a fundamental human project. In this article, he wishes to return to these ideas and to differentiate them from more instrumental interpretations of geography's identity. He admits that his two slogans -- the world discipline and one of humanity's big ideas -- might seem a little unsophisticated to some. When he refers to geography as one of humanity's big ideas, he acknowledges it as an act of will, an intellectual and practical project. Inevitably, to define geography as the world discipline means that people bring contemporary global challenges to the fore. To put some flesh on this argument, he will now draw out three fundamental aspects of geography that go beyond and deepen what they might call problem-based approaches. First, there is the existential function of geography. Second, geography's relationship to human survival. Third, geography is useful knowledge for a globalising planet.
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