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Zusatztext "A truly wonderful book! vastly wide ranging in its coverage and tremendously exciting in its approach. It is lively! engaging and highly accessible! and provides a thorough grounding for students learning to interpret the world through geographers' eyes. The editors have crafted an indispensable companion for undergraduates setting out on a geographical journey." Jon Shaw! Associate Head! School of Geography! Earth and Environmental Sciences! Plymouth University! UK."A substantial expansion of earlier editions! though still a fantastic! progressive! critical introduction to the discipline. The presentation is clear! the writing is wonderfully accessible and the updated selection of themes remains relevant and challenging." Michael Collyer! Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Sussex! UK. Informationen zum Autor Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. Philip Crang is Professor of Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Mark Goodwin is Professor of Human Geography and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Exeter. Klappentext 3rd edition of the leading guide to human geography for undergraduate students. Thoroughly updated throughout, this edition now includes more mainstream subjects, explains new thinking on essential topics and discusses exciting developments in the field. The book is now presented in a clearer and more accessible structure, with three main sections: Foundations, Themes and Horizons. This full-colour guide also has a companion website to provide students with a solid foundation of knowledge. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive, stimulating and cutting-edge guide with the latest thinking on essential topics such as population, biogeography and environmental geographies and new and exciting areas such as mobilities, securities and public spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Foundations 1. Local-global 2. Society-space 3. Human-non-human 4. Modern-postmodern 5. Self-other 6. Masculinity-femininity 7. Science-art 8. Explanation-understanding 9. Representation-reality Part 2: Themes Section 1. Biogeographies 10. Nature and Human Geography 11. Animals and Plants 12. Political Ecology Section 2. Cartography 13. Power of Maps 14. Geographical Information Systems 15. Counter Geographies Section 3. Cultural Geographies 16. Imaginative Geographies 17. Place 18. Landscape 19. Material Geographies Section 4. Development Geographies 20. Theories of Development 21. Rethinking Development 22. Survival and Resistance 23. Human Geographies of the Global South Section 5. Economic Geographies 24. Spaces of Production 25. Money and Finance 26. Consumption-reproduction 27. Commodities 28. Economic Globalization Section 6. Environmental Geographies 29. Global & Local Environmental Problems 30. Sustainability 31. Climate Change Section 7. Historical Geographies 32. Modernity & Modernization 33. Colonialism & Postcolonialism 34. Space, Memory & Identity Section 8. Political Geographies 35. Critical Geopolitics 36. War & Peace 37. Nationalism 38. Citizenship & Governance Section 9. Population Geographies 39. Age 40. Health and Well-being 41. Migrants and Refugees Section 10. Social Geographies 42. Identities 43. Identity and Difference: Dis/ability and Sexuality 44. Exclusion 45. Diasporas Section 11. Urban and Rural Geographies 46. Urban Forms 47. Urban Senses 48. Rurality Part 3: Horizons Section 12. Non-representational Geographies 49. Emotion 50. Affect 51. Performances Section 13. Mobilities 52. Mobilities: Politics, Practices, Places 53. Touring Mobilities 54. Virtual Mobilities Section 14. Securities 55. Risk/Fear/Surveillance 56. Resources 57. Securing Life: New hHzards and Biosecurity Section 15. Publics 58. How to Think about Public Space ...
