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.
Rural Governance: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence
September 10, 2012
Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and ...
The New Regulation and Governance of Food: Beyond the Food Crisis?
1st Edition
By Terry Marsden, Robert Lee, Andrew Flynn, Samarthia Thankappan
July 27, 2012
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (...
The Differentiated Countryside
1st Edition
By Philip Lowe, Terry Marsden and, Jonathan Murdoch, Neil Ward
January 06, 2012
In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers, ...
Cross-Continental Agro-Food Chains: Structures, Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System
1st Edition
Edited
By Niels Fold, Bill Pritchard
December 08, 2011
Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship, this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems, and the impacts for communities around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food products, as well as detailed accounts of fresh...
Geographies of Commodity Chains
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Hughes, Suzanne Reimer
December 08, 2011
Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (...
Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
By Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz
November 24, 2011
For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life. Contributed to, and edited by, an ...
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 ...