
Introducing Human Geographies, First Edition
Hodder Arnold (Publisher)
Published on 30. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-340-69193-9 (ISBN)
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Description
'Introducing Human Geographies' provides an innovative, comprehensive and stimulating first-year introduction to human geography. This major new textbook introduces some of the flavour and excitement of human geography today, playing not only to recognisable subfields but also making accessible some of the more contemporary developments which form the cutting edge of the discipline.
This new undergraduate textbook is structured around three main sections. The first - Foundations - works through a number of underlying debates that are stimulating much contemporary innovation within human geography. The second - Themes - provides a sub-disciplinarily structured account of this innovation, outlining its contribution to questions of development, economy, environment, history, politics, society, and culture. The final section - Contexts - highlights how these questions come together in work on particular 'spaces' and 'places', emphasising how much of the best contemporary work in human geography blurs traditional sub-disciplinary distinctions.
This new undergraduate textbook is structured around three main sections. The first - Foundations - works through a number of underlying debates that are stimulating much contemporary innovation within human geography. The second - Themes - provides a sub-disciplinarily structured account of this innovation, outlining its contribution to questions of development, economy, environment, history, politics, society, and culture. The final section - Contexts - highlights how these questions come together in work on particular 'spaces' and 'places', emphasising how much of the best contemporary work in human geography blurs traditional sub-disciplinary distinctions.
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The chapters are short, clearly written, of high quality, with a wealth of excellent visual material to help make key points in a variety of ways and a glossary of key terms at the end.Progress in Human Geography
Written in a clear and easily approachable manner, striking an appropriate balance between explaining concepts and providing examples from past and contemporary geographical research...in a well-structured format. It will prove useful for students wishing to dip into specific areas of geographical research as well as being a comprehensive introductory text for first year undergraduates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
200 b/w illus
ISBN-13
978-0-340-69193-9 (9780340691939)
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Persons
Paul Cloke, Department of Geography, University of Bristol, UK - Philip Crang, Department of Geography, University College London, UK - Mark Goodwin, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
Author
University of Exeter, UK
Royal Holloway University of London, UK
University of Exeter, UK
Content
Part 1 - Foundations
Society-nature
Society-space
Local-global
Structure-agency
Self-other
Image-reality
Part 2 - Themes
Section 1 - Geographies of Development
Development, post-development and global political-economy
Survival and resistance
Re-thinking development
Section 2 - Economic geographies
Production
Money and finance
Consumption
Section 3 - Environmental geographies
Environmental problems and management
Environmental knowledges and environmentalism
Sustainability
Section 4 - Historical geographies
Modernity and modernisation
Geographical understanding and the modern world
Memory and heritage
Section 5 - Political geographies
Critical geopolitics
Citizenship and governance
Nationalism
Section 6 - Social and cultural geographies
Place
Imaginative geographies
Landscapes
Part 3 - Contexts
The body
The city
The country
Europe
Colonialism and postcolonialism
Migrations and diasporas
Travel and tourism
Commodities
The media
Cyberspace.
Society-nature
Society-space
Local-global
Structure-agency
Self-other
Image-reality
Part 2 - Themes
Section 1 - Geographies of Development
Development, post-development and global political-economy
Survival and resistance
Re-thinking development
Section 2 - Economic geographies
Production
Money and finance
Consumption
Section 3 - Environmental geographies
Environmental problems and management
Environmental knowledges and environmentalism
Sustainability
Section 4 - Historical geographies
Modernity and modernisation
Geographical understanding and the modern world
Memory and heritage
Section 5 - Political geographies
Critical geopolitics
Citizenship and governance
Nationalism
Section 6 - Social and cultural geographies
Place
Imaginative geographies
Landscapes
Part 3 - Contexts
The body
The city
The country
Europe
Colonialism and postcolonialism
Migrations and diasporas
Travel and tourism
Commodities
The media
Cyberspace.