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.
Producer Services in China: Economic and Urban Development
1st Edition
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By Anthony Yeh, Fiona F. 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 ...
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Carl Grodach, Daniel Silver
May 21, 2015
The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity....
Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
1st Edition
By Monica Montserrat Degen
April 23, 2015
As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon...
Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness: Theory, Policy, Practice
1st Edition
By Gillian Bristow
March 31, 2015
Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means, how it might be achieved, whether and how it can be measured, ...
Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
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By Jiang Xu, Anthony Yeh
March 31, 2015
Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political ...
Rural-Urban Dynamics: Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers
1st Edition
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By Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold
March 31, 2015
It has increasingly been recognised that rural and urban areas are inextricably interlinked. This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia...
Learning Transnational Learning
1st Edition
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By Åge Mariussen, Seija Virkkala
February 27, 2015
Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable. In practice, the field of transnational learning has been dominated by various ...