Cultural Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking Global Urbanism

   Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities

   Edited by Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Human Geography: The Basics

   By Andrew Jones

   Series: The Basics

   Human Geography: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of the role that humankind plays in shaping the world around us. Whether it’s environmental concerns, the cities we live in or the globalization of the economy, these are issues which affect us all. This book introduces these topics...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

   Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives

   Edited by Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde

   Series: CRESC

   Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Liminal Landscapes

   Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

   Edited by Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Travel Connections

   Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

   By Jennie Germann Molz

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘...

   Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Mobile Technology and Place

   Edited by Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   An international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America

   Immigration and Political Mobilization

   Edited by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

   Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies

    Edited by Julie Wilson

    Geographical analysis of tourism spaces and places is advancing fast. In terms of human geography, the various recent academic ‘turns’ have led to fresh examination of existing debates and have advanced new theoretical ideas in geography that are more salient than ever for tourism studies. The...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge