This work introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real-life situations, as locatable, specific phenomena. Definitions of culture are diverse and complex. The author presents no single answer but explores a wealth of different cases and appraoches. He tracks the ideas, practices and objects that together form cultures - and how these cultures form identities for individuals and populations. Considering the role of states, empires and nations, firms and corporations, shops and goods, books and films, Crang...
This work introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real-life ...
Development Geography is an informative and vibrant introductory level text, with a wealth of contrasting case-studies and illustrations. Written to stimulate critical thought and discussion about development, it does not assume any clear-cut distinction between 'developed' and 'developing' parts of the world. Case-studies highlight the problems and possible solutions at local, national and international scales. These include: * food production in Senegal * Disney in China * Hurricane Mitch in Honduras * corruption in Bulgaria * further studies from Russia, Bangladesh...
Development Geography is an informative and vibrant introductory level text, with a wealth of contrasting case-studies and illustrations. Wri...
The needs of human geography have produced a quite distinct menu of techniques. This book explores the range of techniques which are useful to human geographers, stressing the importance of using the particular techniques that are appropriate to the context. The text offers a guide to purposeful use of techniques work in detail - survey and qualitative, numerical, spatial and computer-based - drawing on important case studies, such as the decennial census, to illustrate applications. The importance of up-to-date IT-based techniques is particularly stressed, introducing widely recognized...
The needs of human geography have produced a quite distinct menu of techniques. This book explores the range of techniques which are useful to human g...
When the communist governments in central and eastern Europe collapsed in 1989/91, there was a revived interest in a region that had been largely neglected by western geographers. This text draws on the resulting work and other original theoretical and empirical sources to describe, interpret and explain the place and spatial order of modernities in Central and Eastern Europe since 1920, to give a theoretically underpinned, regional geography of the area.
When the communist governments in central and eastern Europe collapsed in 1989/91, there was a revived interest in a region that had been largely negl...
Political geography has produced some of the most radical and innovative ideas in human geography in the past twenty years. The meaning and significance of traditional political subdivisions, such as the state, have had to be fundamentally re-evaluated in the face of the globalization of society and economy and this has forced political geographers to look for new ways of explaining the dynamics of the world system. Political Geography provides a stimulating and concise introduction to the key themes of the subdiscipline, which moves beyond the study of the state to encompass the spatial...
Political geography has produced some of the most radical and innovative ideas in human geography in the past twenty years. The meaning and significan...
In 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder published his seminal paper The Geographical Pivot of History demonstrating the central position of political geography in the study of geography as a whole; a century later and political geography is still at the heart of human geography.
Yet over time political geography has experienced many significant ups and downs, eventually recovering to a position of renewed pre-eminence as the last century drew to a close. This fascinating journey, charted by this equally fascinating book, forms a key part of the history of the evolution of spatial...
In 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder published his seminal paper The Geographical Pivot of History demonstrating the central position of politica...
Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this area. Energetic and engaging, this book:
Illustrates how the core principles of human geography such as space and scale lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon
Debates the historical evolution of globalized society
Analyses the interconnected economic, political and cultural geographies of globalization
Examines the impact of global transformations on the ground...
Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and the contr...
Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this area. Energetic and engaging, this book:
- Illustrates how the core principles of human geography - such as space and scale - lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon
- Debates the historical evolution of globalized society
- Analyses the interconnected economic, political and cultural geographies of globalization
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Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and ...
