Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Human Geography

This book is about the complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.

The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.

"Places of Power: Political Economies of Landscape Change" asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. This volume explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies. In so doing, it speaks to a broad readership of landscape architects, geographers, and related fields of social and environmental research. The book consists of an introductory essay with nine chapters commissioned from leading geographers, landscape architects, political scientists, and economists, and a concluding essay on...

• The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia.
  
• The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.
  
• Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.
  
• Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as...

• A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term -territory-.
  
• Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field.
  
• Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of...

• The contributors are all experts in the field of international development.
  
• Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aid plays in catalysing, or stifling, development.
  
• Represents a wide range of different analytical perspectives.

• Considers the ways in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core anthropological questions.
• Contributors explore a wide range of themes, such as our understanding of those processes which transform the environment, and the evolution of the cultural mind.
• Addresses anthropological issues of general interest, from biology to...

• Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points
• Charts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the field
• A valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied...

"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core."
--Barney Warf, Florida State University

"Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the...

"An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core."
--Barney Warf, Florida State University

"Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the...