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
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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
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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, ...
Human Geography and Professional Mobility: International Experiences, Critical Reflections, Practical Insights
1st Edition
Edited
By Weronika Kusek, Nicholas Wise
June 30, 2021
This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences.Human Geography and Professional Mobility seeks to encourage, influence, and help students ...
Locating Value: Theory, Application and Critique
1st Edition
Edited
By Samantha Saville, Gareth Hoskins
June 30, 2021
This book considers the concept of ‘value’ at the root of our actions and decision-making. Value is an ever-present, yet little interrogated aspect of everyday life. This book explores value as it is theorised, practiced and critiqued from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.It examines how ...
Object-Oriented Cartography: Maps as Things
1st Edition
By Tania Rossetto
December 18, 2020
Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an ...
Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics
1st Edition
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By Thomas Jellis, Joe Gerlach, John-David Dewsbury
December 18, 2020
This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres. Increasingly recognised as a key figure in his own right, Guattari’s influence in ...
Fieldwork in the Global South: Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas
1st Edition
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By Jenny Lunn
September 30, 2020
Choosing to do fieldwork overseas, particularly in the Global South, is a challenge in itself. The researcher faces logistical complications, health and safety issues, cultural differences, language barriers, and much more. But permeating the entire fieldwork experience are a range of ...
Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development
1st Edition
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By Ann Oberhauser, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
September 30, 2020
Feminism has re-shaped the way we think about equality, power relations and social change. Recent feminist scholarship has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and empirical analyses of how gender and feminism are situated within the development process. Global Perspectives on Gender ...