Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Human Geography

Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs and how it can be aided and sustained.

Aid, Technology and Development: The lessons from Nepal champions plural rationality from both a theoretical and practical perspective in order...

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 brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the key dimensions of geographies of making and craft, and the different understandings of 'making' therein. It explores the geographies of making practices from the body to the workshop and studio, and the wider socio-cultural, economic, institutional and historical contexts. The place of creative practices in 'making' geographies and worlds is considered, as well as the multiple lives of things in creatively re-working objects. Contributions examine how concerns around the body, matter and...

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...

During the past decade many markets have been rediscovered as tourist attractions, food meccas and even regeneration flagships. These transformations are pushing markets to a gentrification frontier clashing with markets' traditional role as public meeting places that support, economically and socially, a diverse range of communities including the urban poor, migrant workers, ethnic minorities and the elderly.

This book is the first to explore the contemporary challenges taking place in traditional retail spaces, drawing on rich international case studies from Mexico, Argentina,...

Carceral Spaces and Animals develops a framework for exploring embodied, geographical, legal, and ethical resonances across human and nonhuman carceral spaces. This book examines the close linkages that can be found across prisoner and animal carcerality and captivity, focusing on their corresponding and parallel disciplinary regimes and structures of violence. Case studies juxtapose four main types of institutions: death row and slaughterhouse; laboratory testing on incarcerated humans and animals, solitary confinement, and sites of exploited labor. The shared structural...

Contemporary Issues in Childhood provides undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the current influences and challenges that surround childhood, families and communities. The text carefully explores the lives of children and young people to make clear the link between this particular demographic and social contexts such as family, community and society. Key theories and concepts are examined in each chapter, using Brofenbrenner's bio-ecological model to highlight the complex and individual nature of child development.

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Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities.

The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and...

Night is a fundamental and foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social has undergone significant transformations over the last thirty years. As the economic activity of the 'daytime' city has advanced into the night, driven by globalization, uses of night as a time of play, a time of sleep, or a time for dissent have increasingly faced conflict.

This book looks globally at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that while theories of 'planetary urbanisation' have traced the spatial spread of...

Greenwashing Culture examines culture's complicity with our environmental crisis. It reveals both the social license it often gives gas and petroleum industries to operate and the ecological impact of cultural production itself.

Firstly, the book outlines the basic theoretical concepts and material histories of greenwashing and culture. This introduction includes startling statistics which indicate the true extent of environmental damage film-making, print media and other forms of cultural production can inflict. This is juxtaposed with the culture of celebrity eco-activism...