Women’s and Gender Studies: Feminist Geography

By Latife Akyüz

For whom and why are borders drawn? What are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? And what are the symbolic projections of these physical realities? Constituted by experience and memory, borders shape a "border image" in the minds and social memory of people beyond the lines of the…

Hardback – 2017-03-02
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Border Regions Series

By Heather Sykes

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts—the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution—the book…

Hardback – 2016-12-05
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Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

By Mari-Anne Okkolin

This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender…

Hardback – 2016-10-31
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

Edited by Jemimah Njuki, John R. Parkins, Amy Kaler

Drawing on studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book provides empirical evidence and conceptual explorations of the gendered dimensions of food security. It investigates how food security and gender inequity are conceptualized within interventions, assesses the impacts and outcomes of…

Hardback – 2016-09-20
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Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Edited by Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres

It must be acknowledged that any solutions to anthropogenic Global Climate Change (GCC) are interdependent and ultimately inseparable from both its causes and consequences. As a result, limited analyses must be abandoned in favour of intersectional theories and practices. Emergent Possibilities for…

Hardback – 2016-06-28
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Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlène Elias

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to…

Paperback – 2016-04-21
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The Earthscan Forest Library

Edited by Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres

Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity. This limited focus is clearly inadequate. Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change…

Hardback – 2016-03-23
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Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Edited by Leigh Brownhill, Esther Njuguna, Kimberly L. Bothi, Bernard Pelletier, Lutta Muhammad, Gordon M. Hickey

Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated project aimed at improving food security in subsistence and smallholder agricultural systems. The scope of the book is both local and…

Hardback – 2016-02-04
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Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Edited by Zahra Meghani

This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical,…

Hardback – 2015-10-21
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

Edited by Michael R. Glass, Reuben Rose-Redwood

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices…

Paperback – 2015-09-08
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Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Edited by Stephanie Buechler, Anne-Marie S. Hanson

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds, wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political ecologists and feminist scholars from…

Hardback – 2015-02-27
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

Edited by Anne Coles, Leslie Gray, Janet Momsen

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender…

Hardback – 2015-02-19
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