Introducing human geographies
A first-year introduction to human geography, which seeks to introduce the exciting aspects of contemporary human geography. It contains 40 chapters written by leading geographers from around the world, includes case studies, and provides a glossary of key terms and concepts.
xv, 368 p. : il
9780340691922, 9780340691939, 0340691921, 034069193X
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Part 1 Dimensions: culture-nature; society-space; local-global; structure-agency; seelf-other; image-reality. Part 2 Themes: geographies of development; development, post-development and global, political economy; survival and resistance; re-thinking development. Part 3 Economic geographies: production; money and finance; consumption. Part 4 Environmental geographies: environmental problems and management; environmental knowledges and environmentalism; sustainability. Part 5 Historical geographies: modernity and modernisation; memory and heritage; geohistorical interpretation of prime modernities. Part 6 Political geographies: critical geopolitics; citizenship and governance; nationalism. Part 7 Social and cultural geographies: place; differentiation and space; imaginative geographies; landscapes. Part 8 Contexts: the body; the city; the country; Europe; colonialism and postcolonialism; migrations and diasporas; travel and tourism; commodities; the media; cyberculture.