Human Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City

   Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York

   By Laam Hae

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Urban Spaces in Japan

   Cultural and Social Perspectives

   Edited by Christoph Brumann, Evelyn Schulz

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. International Law, Regulation and Resistance

   Critical Spaces

   By Zoe Pearson

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   International Law, Regulation and Resistance presents a critique of international law through an interdisciplinary analysis and engagement with the emerging literature from critical legal geography. The book draws upon existing critiques of international law to examine how different spaces affect...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. African Minorities in the New World

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Market Towns

   Roles, challenges and prospects

   By Neil Powe, Trevor Hart, Tim Shaw

   Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns. Through a detailed analysis of the characteristics of over 200 towns and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Rethinking Municipal Privatization

   By Oliver D. Cooke

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Petroleum Taxation

    Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    By Carole Nakhle

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge