Human Geography - Research Methods and Techniques Books

New and Published Books

1. Actor-Network Theory and Tourism

   Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity

   Edited by René van der Duim, Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread application of ANT across the social...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Max Weber

   Collected Methodological Writings

   Edited by Hans Henrik Bruun, Sam Whimster

   Series: Weber in Translation

   Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today....

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Towards Relational Sociology

   By Nick Crossley

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations. Crossley asserts that relations are lived trajectories of iterated interaction, built up through a history of interaction, but also entailing anticipation of future interaction. In addition, he...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism

   Edited by Tijana Rakić, Donna Chambers

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism is the first book to present, discuss and promote the use of a range of visual methods in tourism studies. It introduces methods ranging from the collection of secondary visual materials for the purposes of analysis (such as postcards, tourism...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
5. Psychoanalysis in Social Research

   Shifting theories and reframing concepts

   By Claudia Lapping

   The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

   Feminist Reflections

   Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill

   Series: Transformations

   Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. Fieldwork in Tourism

   Methods, Issues and Reflections

   Edited by Michael C. Hall

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   The inherent mobility of tourists and consequent relative ephemerality of contact between the visitor and the visited tourism phenomenon have specific characteristics that challenge the usual fieldwork practices of the social and physical sciences. Such conditions create specific concerns for the...

   Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
8. Ethnography in Social Science Practice

   Edited by Julie Scott-Jones, Sal Watt

   Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
9. Housing and Health in Europe

   The WHO LARES project

   Edited by David Ormandy

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health of inhabitants and their housing conditions,...

   Published April 26th 2009 by Routledge
10. Global Gender Research

    Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Christine Bose, Minjeong Kim

    Series: Perspectives on Gender

    Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it. This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist...

    Published February 1st 2009 by Routledge