Download or read book A Shrinking World written by John Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a five-book series which offers a forward-looking, broad-based course in human geography. The building blocks of a 'geographical imagination' are presented through some of the principal forces that are shaping the world as it approaches the twenty-first century. Each book develops different aspects of the geographical imagination, using a mixture of text and readings, through which the authors teach what it is to think geographically. The issues that are exploredare at the forefront of global and local relations. In recent years there has been much talk of a world that is progressively shrinking as developments in communications and travel increase the pace of life and disrupt our sense of distance. For many, this is the language of globalization: of a world smaller in size, characterized by closer ties and connections, where places once thought of as far apart are no longer so. This volume offers a critical introduction to these ideas, one whichrequires us to rethink our notions of distance and movement, as well as the very nature of social space itself. Starting with the revolutions in transport and communications, the book sets the context within which much of the discussion around the shrinking of the globe takes place. The contributors then go on to examine the implications of a shrinking globe for the worlds of money and finance, and for multinational and transnational firms, and the role played by global cities. Transnational pollution and global tourism are also explored for the manner in which they too often shrink the the world in sometimes unexpected and unpredictable ways. Throughout, attention is drawn to the unevenness and inequality built into global relationships and processes.
Download or read book Encounter Human Geography written by Jess C. Porter and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounter Human Geography provides interactive explorations of human geography concepts through GoogleEarth activities.
Download or read book Horizons in Human Geography written by Derek Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contains 20 specially commissioned essays which attempt to present a critical challenge to the philosophical positivism of the "New Geography". The work attempts to shed light on the relationship between human agency and social and spatial structures.
Download or read book Explorations in Human Geography written by Richard B. Le Heron and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces students to important contemporary issues in human geography, and includes distinctive New Zealand perspectives. It shows how different places are connected by social, cultural, economic, environmental, and political factors, and explains how increasing globalization impacts on daily lives.
Download or read book Explorations in Place Attachment written by Jeffrey Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the unique contribution that geographers make to the concept of place attachment, and related ideas of place identity and sense of place. It presents six types of places to which people become attached and provides a global range of empirical case studies to illustrate the theoretical foundations. The book reveals that the types of places to which people bond are not discrete. Rather, a holistic approach, one that seeks to understand the interactive and reinforcing qualities between people and places, is most effective in advancing our understanding of place attachment.
Download or read book Introduction to Human Geography written by David Dorrell and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographies of Difference written by Mélanie Vandenhelsken and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery. Questioning dominant tropes and assumptions around the Northeast, it examines socio-political and historical processes, border issues, the role of the state, displacement and development, debates over natural resources, violence, notions of body and belonging, movements, tensions and relations, and strategies, struggles and narratives that frame discussions on the region. Drawing on current and emerging research in Northeast India studies, this work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, human geography, sociology and social anthropology, history, cultural studies, media studies and South Asian studies.
Download or read book Shape of the World Explorations in Human Geography written by P. Pinch and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geography Technology and Instruments of Exploration written by Fraser MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.
Download or read book Exploring Human Geography written by Stephen Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and stimulating resource for all first year students of human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a principal aim of this book is to present a view of the subject which is theoretically informed and yet recognises that any view is partial, contingent and subject to change. The extracts selected are accessible and raise issues of method and theory as well as fact. The editors have chosen articles that not only represent main currents in the present flow of academic geography but which are also responsive to developments outside of the discipline. Their selection contains a mixture of established and recent writings and each section features a contextualizing introduction and detailed suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book Explorations in Historical Geography written by Alan R. H. Baker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary 1984 volume extends the debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography.
Download or read book Exploring Human Geography with Maps Workbook written by Margaret Pearce and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can’t navigate human geography, if you can’t read the maps. This full-color interactive web based workbook uses cartographic visualization as an approach to using maps as tools for both the exploration and representation of geographic ideas.
Download or read book Explorations in the Understanding of Landscape written by William Norton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-03-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative contribution to the literature of cultural geography, this book explores the evolution of landscape--both material and symbolic--from the standpoint of the populations, cultures, and human decision-making processes that shape and give it meaning. Focusing on evolution, behavior, symbolism, and ecology, Norton offers a critique of the literature of cultural and social geography and articulates a framework of central issues that connect a wide range of theoretical approaches. In the first four chapters, Norton gives detailed consideration to both traditional and contemporary literature and methodologies and to the links between cultural geography and other social science concepts and analytical methods. The remaining chapters are concerned with the causes and consequences of cultural landscape evolution and the variables affecting it, including language, religion, politics, society, economy, and the physical environment. In addressing these areas of cultural geography, Norton promotes an approach that integrates the contributions of geography with those of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and history. His analysis provides a useful synthesis of the conceptual and empirical content of cultural geography and suggests promising new directions for research in the field. Norton's work will prove a valuable classroom and library resource for students and scholars in cultural and social geography and related areas of sociology and anthropology.
Download or read book Geographical Thought written by Anoop Nayak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographical Thought provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key ideas and figures in human geography. The book provides an essential introduction to the theories that have shaped the study of societies and space. Opening with an exploration of the founding concepts of human geography in the nineteenth century academy, the authors examine the range of theoretical perspectives that have emerged within human geography over the last century from feminist and marxist scholarship, through to post-colonial and non-representational theories. Each chapter contains insightful lines of argument that encourage readers towards independent thinking and critical evaluation. Supporting materials include a glossary, visual images, further reading suggestions and dialogue boxes.
Download or read book Geography and Memory written by Owain Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming. Drawing upon cultural geography, the book provides an accessible framework to approach key aspects of memory, remembering, archives, commemoration and forgetting in modern societies.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Geography written by Barney Warf and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Human Geography for the AP Course written by Barbara Hildebrant and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 2654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study, practice, rest. Repeat. Human Geography for the AP® Course by Hildebrant et al, is perfectly aligned to College Board’s APHG® course. It includes all course concepts with plentiful skills support and practice. A complete AP® Practice Exam rounds out the tools in this engaging book program.
