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.
Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Cidell, David Prytherch
February 05, 2018
The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. ...
Migration Borders Freedom
1st Edition
By Harald Bauder
January 24, 2018
International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can’t – or don’t want to – imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary ...
Cities, Regions and Flows
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Hall, Markus Hesse
June 16, 2017
Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to ...
Locating Right to the City in the Global South
1st Edition
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By Tony Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen
May 31, 2017
Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely ...
Ecologies and Politics of Health
1st Edition
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By Brian King, Kelley A. Crews
May 24, 2017
Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and ...
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn
1st Edition
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By Peter W. Daniels, Kong Chong Ho, Thomas A. Hutton
May 24, 2017
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic ...
Producer Services in China: Economic and Urban Development
1st Edition
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By Anthony Yeh, Fiona Yang
May 24, 2017
In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. It’s economy is now transforming from one based on manufacturing industries towards the producer services, with the importance of these services in the national and regional economy being ...
Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio
1st Edition
By Allan Watson
May 04, 2017
Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe. This book is the ...
Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside: Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment
1st Edition
By Gavin Parker
July 11, 2016
Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. The book expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship, at different scales, has been expressed in and over the rural ...
Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy
1st Edition
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By Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington, Norma Rantisi
November 24, 2015
Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to...
Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space
1st Edition
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By Michael R. Glass, Reuben Rose-Redwood
September 08, 2015
Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices ...
Poverty and the Third Way
1st Edition
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By Colin C Williams, Colin C. Williams
June 08, 2015
What is poverty and how can it be tackled? Taking the Third Way out of its narrow party political context, this book argues that it is necessary to harness work beyond employment in order to pave a Third Way beyond capitalism and socialism. The outcome is a thought-provoking new approach towards ...