Humanistic Geography and Literature
Title | Humanistic Geography and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas C. D. Pocock |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2015-12-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138972148 |
This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.
Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Title | Humanistic Geography and Literature (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas C. D. Pocock |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2014-01-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317906314 |
This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.
Remaking Human Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Title | Remaking Human Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) PDF eBook |
Author | Audrey Kobayashi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-01-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317907035 |
This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives. As a cohesive collection of chapters from well-known geographers in Britain and North America, it reflects the aims of the contributors in striving to bridge the gap between the historical-materialist and humanist interpretations of human geography. The book deals with both the contemporary issues outlined above and the situation in which they emerge: industrial restructuring, planning, women’s issues, social and cultural practices and the landscape as context for social action.
Humanistic Geography (RLE Social and Cultural Geography)
Title | Humanistic Geography (RLE Social and Cultural Geography) PDF eBook |
Author | David Ley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2013-12-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780415734868 |
Humanistic geography now has an established position in the intellectual development of contemporary geography. However there has so far been little attempt to draw together the humanistic approach in one broad statement. This book by the leading figures in the field provides a platform for the exposition of humanistic geography in all its aspects.
The Future of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Title | The Future of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Johnston |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1317907132 |
The chapters in this book address fundamental questions of the nature and purpose of geography, scrutinising its contents, philosophy and methodology. Aimed at undergraduates its purpose is to broaden the debate about what geography had become during the 1980s and what shape it might take in the future.
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Title | Handbook of Cultural Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Anderson |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780761969259 |
"The editors of this genuinely brilliant book seem to dare the reader to argue with them from the first page... I would encourage everyone interested in cultural geography, or in the cultural turn within a whole set of human geogrphies, to do likewise." --ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS "A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities. Throbbing with commitment, and un-disciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be." --Professor Allan Pred Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley Ten sections, with a detailed editorial introduction, the Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive statement of the relation between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook is a textured overview that presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography, while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines.
The Power of Geography
Title | The Power of Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Wolch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2015-11-26 |
Genre | Human geography |
ISBN | 9781138989689 |
This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book's contribution is the concept of society as a 'time-space' fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.