4th Edition
Introducing Human Geographies
Introducing Human Geographies is a ‘travel guide’ into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies. The coverage of the new edition has been thoroughly refreshed to reflect and engage with the contemporary nature and direction of human geography.
This updated and much extended fourth edition includes a diverse range of authors and topics from across the globe, with a completely revised set of contributions reflecting contemporary concerns in human geography. Presented in four parts with a streamlined structure, it includes over 70 contributions written by expert international researchers addressing the central ideas through which human geographers understand and shape their subject. It maps out the big, foundational ideas that have shaped the discipline past and present; explores key research themes being pursued in human geography’s various sub-disciplines; and identifies emerging collaborations between human geography and other disciplines in the areas of technology, justice and environment. This comprehensive, stimulating and cutting-edge introduction to the field is richly illustrated throughout with full colour figures, maps and photos.
The book is designed especially for students new to university degree courses in human geography across the world, and is an essential reference for undergraduate students on courses related to society, place, culture and space.
Part 1 Introductions
1 Understanding Human Geographies
Mark Goodwin, Kelly Dombroski, Junxi Qian and Andrew Williams
2 Doing Human Geographies
Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin, Junxi Qian and Andrew Williams
Part 2 Foundations
3 Scale
Joe Blakey
4 Time
Kajsa Ellegard
5 Place
Soren Larsen
6 Landscape
John Wylie
7 More-than-human
Gay’wu Group of Women and Yandaarra
(Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Uncle Bud Marshall, Aunty Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Sarah Wright, Lara Daley, Kate Lloyd, Sandie Suchet-Pearson and Paul Hodge)
8 More-than-representation
Paul Simpson
9 Majority and Minority Worlds
Nelson Oppong and Kelly Dombroski
10 Indigeneity
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Ritodhi Chakraborty and Aline Carrara
11 Mobilities
Peter Adey
12 Gender and sexuality
Lynda Johnston
13 Ethnicity and race
Heather Winlow
Part 3 Themes
Section 1 Area Geographies
14 Knowing Area Geographies
Junxi Qian and Andrew Williams
15 Urban theory
Regan Koch
16 Global cities
Ben Derudder
17 Comparative urbanism
Jennifer Robinson
18 Rurality
Menelaos Gkartzios
19 Comparative ruralities
Li Yurui
20 Region
Enrico Gualini
21 Lived regions
Andrew McGregor
Section 2 Cultural geographies
22 Knowing cultural geographies
Junxi Qian and Andrew Williams
23 Imaginative geographies
Ning An
24 Affect and emotion
Ben Anderson
25 Performance and the performing arts
Amanda Rogers and Charlotte Veal
26 Materialities
Joseph Pierce
27 Travel and tourism
J.J. Zhang and T.C. Chang
28 Religion
Orlando Woods
29 Spectral geography
Julian Holloway
Section 3 Economic geographies
30 Knowing Economies
Mark Goodwin and Kelly Dombroski
31 Money and Finance
Sarah Hall
32 Consumption
Juliana Mansvelt
33 Work
Katharine McKinnon and Kelly Dombroski
34 Informal economies
Gengzhi Huang
35 Economic globalisation
Jana Kleibert
36 Global economies of care
Gianne Sheena Sabio and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
37 New economic geographies of development
Elise Klein
38 Innovation for the pluriverse
Suliasi Vunibola and Steven Ratuva
Section 4 Environmental geographies
39 Knowing environments
Kelly Dombroski and Junxi Qian
40 Global and local environmental problems and activism
Amanda Thomas
41 Climate change
Chie Sakakibara
42 Sustainability
Kersty Hobson
43 Nature culture
Bawaka Country
(including Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Sarah Wright, Lara Daley and Kate Lloyd)
44 Political Ecology
Jessica Dempsey and Juanita Sundberg
45 Rethinking environmental governance
Meg Parsons and Melissa Nursey-Bray
Section 5 Political geographies
46 Knowing Political Geographies
Andrew Williams and Mark Goodwin
47 Territory
Rogério Haesbaert and Sam Halvorsen
48 Nationalism and nation-states
Angharad Closs Stephens and Franz Bernhardt
49 Colonisation and colonialism
Amba J. Sepie
50 Borders
Gabriel Popescu
51 Critical geopolitics
Sara Fregonese
52 Neoliberalism
Julie MacLeavy
53 Activism and Protest
Richard J. White
Section 6 Social geographies
54 Knowing social geographies
Andrew Williams and Kelly Dombroski
55 Social inequality
Andrew Williams
56 Stigma and exclusion
Jon May
57 Migration and diaspora
Joris Schapendonk and Maggi Leung
58 Identity and difference
Carl Bonner-Thompson
59 Age and the geographies of childhood and youth
Peter Kraftl and Sophie Hadfield-Hill
60 Health and well-being
David Conradson
61 Care and responsibility
Miriam J. Williams and Emma R. Power
Part 4 Collaborations
Section 1 Collaborations for the Anthropocene
62 Anthropocene collaborations
Noel Castree
63 Environmental humanities
Donna Houston and Emily O’Gorman
64 Postcapitalist geographies
Thomas Smith and Benedikt Schmid
65 Commons
Jenny Cameron
Section 2 Collaborations with technology
66 Big Data
Benjamin Adams
67 Participatory cartographies for social change
Luke Drake
68 Smart cities and everyday urbanism
Prince K Guma
69 Ordinary technologies of everyday life
Chen Liu
Section 3 Collaborations with justice
70 Black geographies
Camilla Hawthorne
71 Decolonisation
Mike Ross, Rebecca Kiddle, Amanda Thomas, Bianca Elkington, Ocean Ripeka Mercier and Jennie Smeaton
72 Queer geographies
Rachel Bayer and Kath Browne
73 Spiritual activism and postsecularity
Andrew Williams and Callum Sutherland
Part 5 Afterword
74 Going forward with human geography
Andrew Williams, Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin and Junxi Qian
Biography
Kelly Dombroski is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow and Associate Professor of Geography at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Mark Goodwin is Emeritus Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.
Junxi Qian is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
Andrew Williams is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, Wales.
Paul Cloke was Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter, UK.
