This book focuses on the innovative forms of solidarity that develop around the joint appropriation and the envisaged common future of specific places. Drawing on examples from schools, streets, community centers, workplaces, churches, housing projects and sporting projects, it provides an alternative research agenda from the "loss of community" narrative. It explores how places are meeting grounds where people live with each other s differences, as well as sites where informal interactions between citizens and actors can turn private issues into citizenship acts and public claims on...

This book advances the field of study called geographical gerontology a burgeoning body of interdisciplinary scholarship encompassing the application of geographical concepts and approaches to the study of ageing, old age and older populations. With contributions from leading international experts in the field, the book establishes the conceptual and thematic foundations for future research. The book begins with an introductory chapter that sets the disciplinary and interdisciplinary foundation for the field; followed by a series of chapters organized around the themes of geographical...

For a long time British emigration has suffered from a seeming invisibility in academia, public perception and policy making. This edited collection brings together leading scholars to explore cutting edge research on British migrants in an international range of settings. This book explores the diversities which exist within and between British migrants, and the importance of spatial context. By drawing together a range of research conducted with migrants from different backgrounds to different national contexts, this book reveals that the operation of social structural factors in...

This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21^st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and terrorism; challenges in transportation; media and the world community; the world community and diseases; cities, and the endangered Earth. This book will be of interest to those studying geography, human-environment relations, politics, globalization studies and international...

The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe - Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece - has been attributed to a number of factors with most analysis focusing on dry macroeconomic and financial factors.

Although these aspects are undeniably important, geographical, political and sociological considerations are every bit their equal while the severe negative socio-spatial outcomes of the ultra-neoliberal austerity policies introduced supposedly to solve the crisis and the great variety of social movements resisting...