Routledge Studies in Human Geography
About the Book Series
The series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within Human Geography. Titles reflect the wealth of research which is taking place in this diverse and ever-expanding field.
Contributions are drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innovative areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances.
How Geography and Institutions Shaped the Development of Nations: Across Countries and Continents
1st Edition
By Irina Busygina
November 20, 2024
This book provides a concise and informative introduction to how geography and institutions shaped the development of nations, showing that while the role of institutions for the development of nations is indisputable, the role of geographic factors remains underexplored and underestimated. Drawing...
Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Cat Button, Gerald Taylor Aiken
January 29, 2024
The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. It examines the effects that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the ...
Spatialized Islamophobia
1st Edition
By Kawtar Najib
September 25, 2023
This book demonstrates the spatialized and multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia. It provides ground-breaking insights in recognising the importance of space in the formation of anti-Muslim racism. Through the exploration of complementary data, both from existing quantitative databases and directly ...
Research Ethics in Human Geography
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Henn, Judith Miggelbrink, Kathrin Hörschelmann
May 31, 2023
This book explores common ethical issues faced by human geographers in their research. It offers practical guidance for research planning and design that incorporates geographic disciplinary knowledge to conceptualise research ethics. The volume brings together international insights from ...
Geographies of the Internet
1st Edition
Edited
By Barney Warf
February 01, 2022
This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet. Written by leading scholars in the field, the book ...
New Geographies of the Globalized World
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcin Wojciech Solarz
September 30, 2021
Globalization has, essentially, come to an end. It is, already, a victorious revolution. It has profoundly restructured the relationships between people and the world, often recreating them in a new geographical image. This book discovers and describes these relationships of new geographies, ...
Crisis Spaces: Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe
1st Edition
By Costis Hadjimichalis
September 25, 2019
The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations. This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between ...
Towards a Political Economy of Resource-dependent Regions
1st Edition
By Greg Halseth, Laura Ryser
June 07, 2019
This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century. It explores how rural and small town places are working to find success in a new economy marked by demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental change. How ...
Place, Diversity and Solidarity
1st Edition
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By Stijn Oosterlynck, Nick Schuermans, Maarten Loopmans
January 17, 2019
In many countries, particularly in the Global North, established forms of solidarity within communities are said to be challenged by the increasing ethnic and cultural diversity of the population. Against the backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions – which inflate and exploit ...
Mobilising Design
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin Spinney, Suzanne Reimer, Philip Pinch
December 19, 2018
This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners. Drawing upon detailed case studies, it demonstrates the diverse roles of design in shaping mobility at different spaces and scales: ...
Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Bastian, Owain Jones, Niamh Moore, Emma Roe
December 19, 2018
Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ‘ecologicalisation’ of ...
Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration
1st Edition
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By Jennifer Turner, Kimberley Peters
September 27, 2018
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move. At first glance, the words ‘carceral’ and ‘mobilities’ seem to sit uneasily ...