Michelle Bastian is a Chancellor s Fellow in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Owain Jones is Professor of Environmental Humanities, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, University of Bath Spa, UK.

Niamh Moore is a Chancellor s Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Emma Roe, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton, UK.

This book addresses a gap in the present literature on the role that geography plays in the distribution of entrepreneurial activity. Emerging work on entrepreneurial ecosystems suggests it is important entrepreneurship studies move beyond the mere identification of factors that impact entrepreneurial activity to consider the unique geographic contexts in which entrepreneurs operate. These contexts include a variety of interactive elements including regional characteristics, institutions, actors, and connectors.

As such, this collection analyses entrepreneurial activity in regions...

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 examines geographical names, place-names, and toponymy from philosophical and cultural evolutionary perspectives. Geographical name-tracking-networks (Geo-NTNs) are posited as tools for tracking names through time and across space, and for making sense of how names evolve both temporally and spatially. Examples from North and South American indigenous groups, the Canadian arctic, Wales, England, and the Middle East are brought into a theoretical framework for making sense of aspects of place-naming practices, beliefs, and systems. New geographical tools such as geographic...

This book offers critical, state of the art reflections of value as it is theorised, applied, and critiqued. This book examines how value comes to feature in contemporary society; how it is figured, operationalized, endorsed, and contested. This book demonstrates the eclectic epistemic foundations and imperatives of value, with contributions exploring: Marxist and post-structural theories of value, the ways values and value frameworks are embodied in our everyday habits, how spatial scales explicitly inflect notions of value and reciprocally serve as discursive containers through which...

Public spaces are the renditions of the power symmetry within the social setting it resides in, and is both controlling and confining of power. In an ideologically-laden context, urban design encompasses values and meanings and is utilized as a means to construct the identity and perpetuate visible and invisible boundaries. Hence, gendered spatial dichotomy based on a biological division of sexes is often employed systematically to evade the transgression of women into the public spaces.

The production of modern urban space in the Middle East is formed in the interplay between...

International borders have become deadly barriers of a proportion rivaled only by war or natural disaster. Yet despite the damage created by borders, most people can t or don t want to imagine a world without them. What alternatives do we have to prevent the deadly results of contemporary borders?

In today s world, national citizenship determines a person s ability to migrate across borders. "Migration Borders Freedom" questions that premise. Recognizing the magnitude of deaths occurring at contemporary borders worldwide, the book problematizes the concept of the border and develops...

This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners. Drawing upon detailed case studies, it demonstrates the diverse roles of design in shaping mobility at different spaces and scales: across cities; within different types of buildings and infrastructures; and through commuting, work and leisure activities.

A range of international scholars illustrate the designed mobilities of car parks, traffic lights, street benches, pedestrian wayfinding systems and...

This book provides an exploration and evaluation of Guattari's experimental and creative production of ideas through the perspective of Geography.

In keeping with his own ability to negotiate between and bring together different disciplines, this book pays homage to Guattari's own style of thinking, focusing on the notion of transversal geographies. The book is divided in three parts: cartographies, ecosophy and micropolitics, which each chapter showcasing the pragmatic and singular grounds by which Guattari's signature concept of the transversal can be found to be...

Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move.

At first glance, the words carceral and mobilities seem to sit uneasily together. This book challenges the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of movement. Carceral Mobilities brings together contributions that speak to contemporary debates across carceral studies and mobilities research, offering fresh insights to both areas by...