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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift
August 16, 2018
Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This ...
Island Geographies: Essays and conversations
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine Stratford
August 14, 2018
Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established ...
Communications/Media/Geographies
1st Edition
By Paul C. Adams, Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, André Jansson, Shaun Moores
May 02, 2018
Although there are human geographers who have previously written on matters of media and communication, and those in media and communication studies who have previously written on geographical issues, this is the first book-length dialogue in which experienced theorists and researchers from these ...
Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation: Women-only urban parks in Iran
1st Edition
By Reza Arjmand
May 02, 2018
Public spaces are the renditions of the power symmetry within the social setting it resides in, and is both controlling and confining of power. In an ideologically-laden context, urban design encompasses values and meanings and is utilized as a means to construct the identity and perpetuate visible...
Access, Property and American Urban Space
1st Edition
By M. Gordon Brown
February 12, 2018
This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic transactions. Real property has been instrumental in...
Everyday Globalization: A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris
1st Edition
By Timothy Shortell
February 12, 2018
Everyday Globalization is a micro-sociological study of immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. Global flows of people bring together cultural practices from distant places and urban dwellers in global cities interpret the signs of collective identity in ascribing particular places as "...