Geography

The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, crite...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...

This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohe...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

This book examines the development of Chinas national ambitions under its current leader Xi Jinping and the dilemma they present for the United Sta...

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban...

Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues tha...

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religiou...

Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments ...

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings. This book follows the development of several threads of the concept of landscape as they h...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues ...

Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban envi...

With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-So...

De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusin...

In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to ...

Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Earths surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected...

Popular war on drugs rhetoric postulates drug use in the West as the product of the drug production and trafficking roles of non-western societies ...

Although blurred and heavily contested, the concept of tourist destination still deserves careful attention. Despite its unstable characteristics, ...

Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practi...

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our...

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned ne...

As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the su...