1080 Pages 232 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

1080 Pages 232 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

1080 Pages 232 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.