The series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within Human Geography. Titles reflect the wealth of research which is taking place in this diverse and ever-expanding field.
Contributions are drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innovative areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances.
By C. Cindy Fan
May 16, 2014
China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to ...
By Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons
May 16, 2014
Marx, Lenin and Kautsky all regarded family farming as doomed to be split into capitalist farms and proletarian labour. Most modern economists regard family farming as an archaic form of production organization, destined to give way to agribusiness. Family Farms refutes these notions and analyses ...
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By Barney Warf, Santa Arias
April 28, 2014
Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained transformation. Space, place, mapping, and geographical imaginations have become commonplace topics in a variety of analytical fields in part because globalization has accentuated the significance of location. While ...
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By Jenny Lunn
March 03, 2014
Choosing to do fieldwork overseas, particularly in the Global South, is a challenge in itself. The researcher faces logistical complications, health and safety issues, cultural differences, language barriers, and much more. But permeating the entire fieldwork experience are a range of ...
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By Ann Oberhauser, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo
March 07, 2014
Feminism has re-shaped the way we think about equality, power relations and social change. Recent feminist scholarship has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and empirical analyses of how gender and feminism are situated within the development process. Global Perspectives on Gender ...
By Aram Ziai
November 08, 2013
Tackling issues surrounding post-development which is arguably one of the most significant debates in the field of north-south relations at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of post-development theory and practice drawing on empirical ...
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By K. Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor
November 08, 2013
This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...
By James D. Sidaway
October 23, 2013
Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. These ...
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By Libby Porter, Kate Shaw
September 03, 2013
The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or ...
By John Rennie Short
April 11, 2013
We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of ...
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By Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin
November 20, 2012
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale ...
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By Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence
September 10, 2012
Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and ...