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By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are better able to understand the central importance of movements, rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing multidisciplinary field that includes, among other things, studies on smart cities, infrastructures and networks; mobile technologies for automated highways or locative media; mobility justice and rights to stay or enter or reside. These activities, cadences and changing attachments to place have profound effects-first upon how we conduct or...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of islands from a human geography perspective, with contributions from leading scholars within the field and international examples of topical debates within island studies. A range of diverse and challenges and issues are analysed using multiple theoretical, methodological and empirical contexts.

Questions of environmental governance and management are explored, from seabed mining in Australasia to waste and energy production in the Caribbean, to questions of climate finance and economic fairness. The changing land use of islands is analysed...

This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, and people’s lives. They remain intriguing through-lines of global significance and local meaning.