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.
Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins
June 07, 2011
Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It ...
Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain, Mike Kesby
November 10, 2010
Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and action which is oriented towards social change, representing a major epistemological challenge to ...
Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson
June 18, 2010
This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely ...
World City Syndrome: Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town
1st Edition
By David A. McDonald
September 24, 2009
The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of urban...
Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades
1st Edition
By Lynda Johnston
May 26, 2009
Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated. From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyzes the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies ...
Ageing and Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips
October 22, 2008
During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'. An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews ...
Rural Poverty: Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States
1st Edition
By Paul Milbourne
November 11, 2004
Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book ...
The Human Geography of East Central Europe
1st Edition
By David Turnock
November 27, 2002
The Human Geography of East Central Europe examines the geography of the transition economies that were not formerly part of the Soviet Union: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia and East Germany. ...