Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
About the Book Series
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The Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity Series offers a forum for original and innovative research within cultural geography and connected fields. Titles within the series are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic and captivating topics. This series provides a forum for cutting edge research and new theoretical perspectives that reflect the wealth of research currently being undertaken. This series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, research students and academics, appealing to geographers as well as the broader social sciences, arts and humanities.
Venice Nightscapes: Consuming, Living, Narrating
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Tomasella
November 18, 2025
This book rethinks the urban night through an interdisciplinary exploration of Venice’s nighttime economies, social practices and cultural narratives. Interpreting nightscapes as lived, contested and imaginative spaces, the book introduces the ‘genius noctis’ – a critical lens for engaging with the...
Spatialities of Speculative Fiction: Re-Mapping Possibilities, Philosophies, and Territorialities
1st Edition
By Gwilym Lucas Eades
April 14, 2025
This book examines science fiction, fantasy and horror novels utilizing a conceptual toolkit of the ten duties of speculative fiction. Building on previous work in the discipline of geography it will demonstrate the value of speculation in the visualisation of Anthropocene futures. The book ...
Migration, Community and Identity: Countercultural Lifestyle Migration to Rural Wales, 1965-1980
1st Edition
By Flossie Caerwynt
January 30, 2025
Migration, Community and Identity analyses experiences of migration to rural Wales from 1965 to 1980. It focuses on people who were part of the era’s counterculture, looking for an escape from mainstream society. Using original interviews, the book shows why people moved and how the move shaped ...
Literary Atlas: Plotting a New Literary Geography
1st Edition
By Jon Anderson
December 26, 2024
This book documents a new approach to literary geographies based around the Literary Atlas of Wales. It introduces an innovative "plotted" approach which empowers reading, creates connections to localities, histories, and communities, and inspires interest in literature and geography. It showcases ...
Coexistence: Spacings, Dis-positions, and Being-with Others
1st Edition
By Paul Simpson
December 17, 2024
This book aims to develop an account of living together with difference which recognises the tension that we are inescapably with others – both human and non-human – but at the same time are always differing from and with those with whom we find ourselves. A concern for coexistence and questions ...
Becoming Weather: Weather, Embodiment and Affect
1st Edition
By Sarah Wright
September 17, 2024
Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming. Becoming...
Surfing Spaces
1st Edition
By Jon Anderson
May 27, 2024
The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As this book argues, however, this act of surfing does not exist in isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that synergize with it – by the places, ...
Spaces of Puppets in Popular Culture: Grotesque Geographies of the Borderscape
1st Edition
By Janet Banfield
January 29, 2024
This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media. Organised around themes of ...
Compulsive Body Spaces
1st Edition
By Diana Beljaars
September 25, 2023
Compulsive Body Spaces presents a spatial understanding of compulsion. Providing a compelling account of the lives of 15 people with Tourette syndrome, it demystifies the seemingly irrational, purposeless and meaningless character of this behaviour. It demonstrates how attending to the spatial ...
Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place: Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies
1st Edition
By Mary Modeen, Iain Biggs
May 31, 2023
This book explores an exciting range of creative engagements with ecologies of place, using geopoetics, deep mapping and slow residency to propose broadly based collaborations in a form of ‘disciplinary agnosticism’. Providing a radical alternative to current notions of interdisciplinarity, this ...
Space, Taste and Affect: Atmospheres That Shape the Way We Eat
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily Falconer
April 29, 2022
This book is an exploration of how time, space and social atmospheres contribute to the experience of taste. It demonstrates complex combinations of material, sensual and symbolic atmospheres and social encounters that shape this experience. Space, Taste and Affect brings together case studies from...
Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame
1st Edition
By Giada Peterle
May 19, 2021
This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative visual methods and extends from within the geohumanities across literary spatial studies, comics, urban studies, mobility studies, and beyond. ...