Introducing Human Geographies

by Cloke, Paul; Crang, Philip; Goodwin, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780340691922
• ISBN10: 0340691921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-29
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

This vibrant account of the scope and excitement of contemporary human geographies, it provides novel and accessible material in short, digestible chapters on a range of issues, from society and nature to technoscapes and the media. The text is divided into three main sections. The first - Foundations - works through a number of underlying debates that are stimulating much contemporary innovation within human geography. The second - Themes - provides a sub-disciplinary structured account of this innovation, outlining itscontribution to questions of development, economy, environment, history, politics, society, and culture. The final section - Contexts - highlights how these questions come together in particular 'spaces' and 'places', emphasising how much of the best contemporary work in human geography blurstraditional sub-disciplinary distinctions. Written by an international team of contributors, this text represents the cutting edge of its subject and will be essential reading for all students of human geography.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	ix
PART I Foundations	1	(62)
Culture--Nature	4	(8)
Sarah Whatmore
Society--Space	12	(12)
Susan J. Smith
Local--Global	24	(11)
Philip Crang
Structure--Agency	35	(8)
Mark Goodwin
Self--Other	43	(11)
Paul Cloke
Image--Reality	54	(9)
Mike Crang
PART II Themes	63	(2)
SECTION 1 DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHIES	65	(28)
Development, Post-Development and the Global Political Economy	67	(9)
Stuart Corbridge
Survival and Resistance	76	(8)
Paul Routledge
Re-thinking Development	84	(9)
Sarah A. Radcliffe
SECTION 2 ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES	93	(30)
Production	95	(12)
Roger Lee
Money and Finance	107	(7)
Adam Tickell
Consumption	114	(9)
Jon Goss
SECTION 3 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHIES	123	(28)
Sustainability	125	(8)
William M. Adams
Environmental Problems and Management	133	(8)
Andrew Jordan
Tim O'Riordan
Environmental Knowledges and Environmentalism	141	(10)
Jacquie Burgess
SECTION 4 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIES	151	(28)
Modernity and Modernization	153	(9)
Miles Ogborn
A Geohistorical Interpretation of the Modern World	162	(8)
Peter J. Taylor
Memory and Heritage	170	(9)
Nuala C. Johnson
SECTION 5 POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES	179	(28)
Critical Geopolitics	181	(8)
Joanne P. Sharp
Citizenship and Governance	189	(10)
Mark Goodwin
Nationalism	199	(8)
Pyrs Gruffudd
SECTION 6 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES	207	(28)
Imaginative Geographies	209	(8)
Felix Driver
Landscapes	217	(9)
Catherine Nash
Place	226	(9)
Tim Cresswell
PART III Contexts	235	(97)
The Body	238	(8)
Ruth Butler
The City	246	(10)
Chris Hamnett
The Country	256	(12)
Paul Cloke
Europe	268	(9)
Kevin Robins
Colonialism and Postcolonialism	277	(10)
Richard Phillips
Migrations and Diasporas	287	(9)
Claire Dwyer
Travel and Tourism	296	(9)
Luke Desforges
Commodities	305	(11)
Michael Watts
The Media	316	(8)
James Kneale
Cyberspace and Cyberculture	324	(8)
Ken Hillis
Postscript: Your Human Geographies	332	(1)
Glossary	333	(12)
References	345	(16)
Index	361