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Introducing human geographies
\"Introducing Human Geographies is the leading guide to human geography for undergraduate students. Written by expert international researchers, this thoroughly updated third edition explains new thinking on essential topics and discusses exciting developments in the field. Presented in three parts, it addresses the central ideas through which human geographers understand and shape their subject ('Foundations'), explores the main sub-disciplines from diverse angles ('Themes') and then looks to the future of human geography to assess the latest research in innovative areas ('Horizons'). Comprehensive, stimulating and cutting edge, Introducing Human Geographies, 3E, will be your essential guide\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Wiley-Blackwell companion to cultural geography
**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**
Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural geography currently available.
* A significantly revised new edition covering a number of new topics such as biotechnology, rural, food, media and tech, borders and tourism, whilst also reflecting developments in established subjects including animal geographies
* Edited and written by the leading authorities in this fast-developing discipline, and features a host of new contributors to the second edition
* Traces the historical evolution of cultural geography through to the very latest research
* Provides an international perspective, reflecting the advancing academic traditions of non-Western institutions, especially in Asia
* Features a thematic structure, with sections exploring topics such as identities, nature and culture, and flows and mobility
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Making human geography
\"Subject Areas/Keywords: geographic theory, geographic thought, human geography, social sciences, social theory, spatial-quantitative revolution This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today. Kevin R. Cox provides an interpretive, critical perspective on Anglo-American geographic thought in the 20th and 21st centuries. He probes the impact of the spatial-quantitative revolution and geography's engagement with other social sciences, particularly in social theory. Key concepts and theories in the field are explained and illustrated with instructive research examples. Cox explores both how new approaches to human geography get constructed and what each school of thought has contributed to understanding the world in which we live\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Practically Invisible
The community of Agua Blanca, deep within the Machalilla National
Park on the coast of Ecuador, found itself facing the twenty-first
century with a choice: embrace a booming tourist industry eager to
experience a preconceived notion of indigeneity, or risk losing a
battle against the encroaching forces of capitalism and
development. The facts spoke for themselves, however, as tourism
dollars became the most significant source of income in the
community.
Thus came a nearly inevitable shock, as the daily rhythms of
life--rising before dawn to prepare for a long day of maintaining
livestock and crops; returning for a late lunch and siesta; joining
in a game of soccer followed by dinner in the evening--transformed
forever in favor of a new tourist industry and the compromises
required to support it. As Practically Invisible
demonstrates, for Agua Blancans, becoming a supposedly \"authentic\"
version of their own indigenous selves required performing their
culture for outsiders, thus becoming these performances within the
minds of these visitors. At the heart of this story, then, is a
delicate balancing act between tradition and survival, a
performance experienced by countless indigenous groups.
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Topoi/graphein : mapping the middle in spatial thought
\"In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to revealthat to be human is to know how tolive with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including CodeInconnu, Lord of the Flies, and Apocalypse Now,and focusing on key concerns developed in the works of the philosophers Deleuze, Olsson, and Wittgenstein, Abrahamsson starts within the notion of fixed spatiality, in whichhuman thought and action are anchored in the given of identity. He then movesthrough a social world in which spatiotemporal transformations are neitherfixed nor taken for granted. Finally he edges into the pure temporality that liesbeyond the maps of fixed points and social relations. Each chapter is organized into two subjects: topoi, orexcerpts from the films, and graphein, the author's interpretation ofpresented theoriesto mirror the displacements,transpositions, juxtapositions, fluctuations, and transformations between delimited categories. A landmark work in the study of human geography, Abrahamsson's book proposes that academic and intellectual attention should focus on the spatialization between meaning and its materialization in everyday life.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dancing with the river : people and life on the Chars of South Asia
An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of \"hybrid landscapes\" and their inhabitants. With this book, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of \"hybrid environments.\" Focusing on chars -- the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal -- the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is a senior fellow in resource management in the Asia-Pacific Program at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. She lives in Canberra. Gopa Samanta is an associate professor in geography at the University of Burdwan. She lives in Golapbag, Burdwan, India.
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Tourism geography : critical understandings of place, space and experience
\"Tourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It stimulates large-scale, global movements of people and forges distinctive relationships between people and the places they visit. It shapes processes of physical development and resource exploitation, while the presence of visitors forges a range of economic, social, cultural and environmental relationships that have important implications for local geographies. Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, the discussion connects tourism to key geographical concepts relating to globalization, mobility, new geographies of production and consumption, and post-industrial change. Building on the success of Stephen Williams cornerstone work, the addition of Alan A. Lew as co-author has enabled an even wider breadth of research to be introduced to the volume. Featuring international case studies and supported by up-to-date data, the third edition has been fully updated and offers a comprehensive review of tourism geography around the world; it examines the different perspectives from which geographers approach this important contemporary process. This book remains the only up to date and comprehensive review of geographies of tourism and the ways in which scholars can interpret contemporary tourism processes. It provides an accessible yet thorough explanation of concepts and models which promotes an understanding of their applications and limitations. Written primarily as a student text, each chapter includes guidance for further study and summary bibliographies that form the basis for independent work. Supporting materials and additional case studies are available online\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography
Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place of everyday life.
Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work addresses the core themes of this still-developing field, demonstrates the implications of non-representational theories for many aspects of human geographic thought and practice, and highlights areas of emergent critical debate. The collection is structured around four thematic sections - Life, Representation, Ethics and Politics - which explore the varied relations between non-representational theories and contemporary human geography.
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Spatial histories of radical geography : North America and beyond
\"A wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond. Includes contributions from an international group of scholars. Focuses on the centrality of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale in understanding the rise of radical geography and its spread - A celebration of radical geography from its early beginnings in the 1950s through to the 1980s, and after. Draws on oral histories by leaders in the field and private and public archives Contains a wealth of never-before published historical material\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Coasts under stress
Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.
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