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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.
List of contents
Part 1 Introductions 1 Understanding Human Geographies 2 Doing Human Geographies Part 2 Foundations 3 Scale 4 Time 5 Place 6 Landscape 7 More-than-human 8 More-than-representation 9 Majority and Minority Worlds 10 Indigeneity 11 Mobilities 12 Gender and sexuality 13 Ethnicity and race Part 3 Themes Section 1 Area Geographies 14 Knowing Area Geographies 15 Urban theory 16 Global cities 17 Comparative urbanism 18 Rurality 19 Comparative ruralities 20 Region 21 Lived regions Section 2 Cultural geographies 22 Knowing cultural geographies 23 Imaginative geographies 24 Affect and emotion 25 Performance and the performing arts 26 Materialities 27 Travel and tourism 28 Religion 29 Spectral geography Section 3 Economic geographies 30 Knowing Economies 31 Money and Finance 32 Consumption 33 Work 34 Informal economies 35 Economic globalisation 36 Global economies of care 37 New economic geographies of development 38 Innovation for the pluriverse Section 4 Environmental geographies 39 Knowing environments 40 Global and local environmental problems and activism 41 Climate change 42 Sustainability 43 Nature culture 44 Political Ecology 45 Rethinking environmental governance Section 5 Political geographies 46 Knowing Political Geographies 47 Territory 48 Nationalism and nation-states 49 Colonisation and colonialism 50 Borders 51 Critical geopolitics 52 Neoliberalism 53 Activism and Protest Section 6 Social geographies 54 Knowing social geographies 55 Social inequality 56 Stigma and exclusion 57 Migration and diaspora 58 Identity and difference 59 Age and the geographies of childhood and youth 60 Health and well-being 61 Care and responsibility Part 4 Collaborations Section 1 Collaborations for the Anthropocene 62 Anthropocene collaborations 63 Environmental humanities 64 Postcapitalist geographies 65 Commons Section 2 Collaborations with technology 66 Big Data 67 Participatory cartographies for social change 68 Smart cities and everyday urbanism 69 Ordinary technologies of everyday life Section 3 Collaborations with justice 70 Black geographies 71 Decolonisation 72 Queer geographies 73 Spiritual activism and postsecularity Part 5 Afterword 74 Going forward with human geography
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
