Recontextualising Geography in Education

In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice. It addresses key topics in recontextualising geography such as the epistemic relationships between the university discipline and the school subject, design…

Space, Place and Capitalism

This book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It plots the relationship between the spaces and places of 1970s Australian capitalism as it evolves through Ireland’s 1971 Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. In particular, the book theorises the relationship between space and place in literature through…

Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume I

This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about urban-rural coordination. The authors argue that successful urban and rural development in China should promote social equity, cultu…

Making Markets Making Place

This book examines place and place-making in London’s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (‘place-writing) to interrogate the ways in which Borough Market’s material, social-sensual and discursive relations assemble to reproduce Borough Market as a place, market and marketplace. Its central premise is that market-processes – the negotiation and exchange of commodities –…

The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peo…

Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan, and (III) A Prospect of Community-Based Inclusive Society in Japan. The chapters in this book were composed on the basis of rese…

Emerging Issues in Internal Displacement in Africa

This book focuses on emerging issues related to internal displacement in Africa. The six principal issues discussed are climate change, technology, xenophobia, harmful practices, generalized violence and development projects. Increasingly, the need to understand the root causes of the dimensions of internal displacement and the dimensions in which this displacement manifests have become a perti…

INVENTING PLACES: STUDIES IN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

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ISBN/ISSN

0-582-86875-0

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xii, 285 p.: ill. ; 23 cm

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304.2 Inv 1992

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: LANDSCAPES OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES, THIRD EDITION

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3rd

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0-697-13289-7

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xi, 532 p. : ill, ; 28 cm

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910 Fel h

Inventing places.

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0-582-86875-0

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xii, 285 p.: ill., tab.; 23 cm

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304.2 Inv i

Human geography: landscapes oh human activities.

Edition

3rd. ed.

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xii, 532 p., : ill. ; map. ; tab. ; 30 cm.

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910 Fel h

Human geography: priciple of.

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-

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xviii, 805 p. : ill. ; map. ; 25 cm.

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910.3 Ell h