Human Geography

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked—despite its ...

Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their h...

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analy...

In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this tran...

The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence sha...

This stimulating book explores the intersection of landscape, democracy and spatial justice on an international scale to offer an overarching defin...

What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms...

The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to becom...

A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy  From the divis...

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the concepts and methods used in fractal analysis and modeling in order to study the spatial dist...

As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that ...

Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements  How does social change happen? It requires an iden...

Western Political Science Association's Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory Canadian Studies Network Prize for the Be...

Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor o...

Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world. Arriving in ever-incre...

In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders inte...

This is a book about nature and culture, Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in livi...

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associate...

Explores the complex relationship humans have with the environment. It is one of both responsibility—including the sustainable or unsustainable man...

A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories. Survivors of th...

Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyondThe Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial in...

Political discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, ...

This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced t...

This reference investigates the role of landscape in popular works and in doing so explores the time in which they were written. Literary Geograph...

This book is a crucial reference source for high school and undergraduate college students interested in contemporary Brazil. While it provides a g...

As flooding, drought and water scarcity become more pronounced due to climate change, so the way in which these events are presented in the media a...

Modern Germany explores life, society, and history in this comprehensive thematic encyclopedia, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the...

From Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environm...