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.
Intergenerational Space
1st Edition
By Robert Vanderbeck, Nancy Worth
September 30, 2020
Intergenerational Space offers insight into the transforming relationships between younger and older members of contemporary societies. The chapter selection brings together scholars from around the world in order to address pressing questions both about the nature of contemporary generational ...
The Geography of Names: Indigenous to post-foundational
1st Edition
By Gwilym Lucas Eades
September 30, 2020
This book examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives. Geographical name-tracking-networks (Geo-NTNs) are posited as tools for tracking names through time and across space, and for making sense of how names evolve both temporally ...
Time Geography in the Global Context: An Anthology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kajsa Ellegård
September 30, 2020
Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps us understand change processes in society, the wider context and the ecological consequences of human actions. This book brings together international time-geographic research from a range of disciplines. Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand is a ...
British Migration: Privilege, Diversity and Vulnerability
1st Edition
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By Pauline Leonard, Katie Walsh
June 30, 2020
Around 5.6 million British nationals live outside the United Kingdom: the equivalent of one in every ten Britons. However, social science research, as well as public interest, has tended to focus more on the numbers of migrants entering the UK, rather than those leaving.This book provides an ...
Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss: Grief and Consolation in Space and Time
1st Edition
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By Christoph Jedan, Avril Maddrell, Eric Venbrux
June 30, 2020
Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight ...
Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Cara Courage, Anita McKeown
June 30, 2020
This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together a range of scholars...
Living with the Sea: Knowledge, Awareness and Action
1st Edition
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By Mike Brown, Kimberley Peters
June 30, 2020
The seas and oceans are currently taking centre stage in academic study and public consciousness. From the plastics littering our seas, to the role of climate change on ocean currents from unequal access of marine resources to the treacherous experiences of seafarers who keep our global economy ...
The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment
1st Edition
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By Tamar Mayer, Sujata Moorti, Jamie K. McCallum
June 30, 2020
Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed adults. This phenomenon marks the emergence of a laborscape. This concept recognizes that, although youth unemployment is not consistent across the world, it is a ...
Thinking Time Geography: Concepts, Methods and Applications
1st Edition
By Kajsa Ellegård
June 30, 2020
Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps in the understanding of change in society, the wider context and ecological consequences of human actions. This book presents its assumptions, concepts and methods, and example applications. The intellectual path of the Swedish geographer ...
Ageing Resource Communities: New frontiers of rural population change, community development and voluntarism
1st Edition
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By Mark Skinner, Neil Hanlon
December 12, 2019
Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource ...
Branding the Nation, the Place, the Product
1st Edition
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By Ulrich Ermann, Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik
December 12, 2019
Branding is a profoundly geographical type of commodification process. Many things become commodities that are compared and valuated on markets around the globe. Places such as cities or regions, countries and nations attempt to acquire visibility through branding. Geographical imaginations are ...
Geographical Gerontology: Perspectives, Concepts, Approaches
1st Edition
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By Mark W. Skinner, Gavin J. Andrews, Malcolm P. Cutchin
December 12, 2019
Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by different people in different places, and in what ways it is transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy and programmes.This book focuses on the ...