This volume treats "China" first and foremost as an evolving and imagined geographical entity. The contributors explore China's last five hundred years of history using geography as a lens through which to approach such issues as sports, ethnography, cartography, religion, elite and popular culture, transnational networking, urban planning, and ......
In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from natures harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often ......
Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extractio
Extraction/Exclusion critiques the idea of inclusion as the solution to exclusion in contemporary resource extraction. Drawing on scholarship from across the social sciences, empirical chapters in this collection show that extraction is predicated on exclusions. Extraction/Exclusion portrays how inclusionary language and practices often result in ......
This is a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic theorisation of our collective living with energy in its many natural and technological forms. It provides a distinctive understanding of the urgent challenges of transforming future energy systems into more just and lower carbon configurations.
This comprehensive regional geography text, for geography or Latin American studies courses, helps students understand the region through the twin themes of the environment and development. Jokisch engages in current debates and issues, while covering the physical geography, history, and distinct sub-regions within the thematic framework.
Offers readers an alternative way of conceptualising humanism in relation to global change, one that draws in particular from black studies as opposed to one located in the ontological fold of European humanism.
This book takes explores the seemingly infinite scale, complexity and majesty of the Universe. The components of the solar system are systematically introduced covering the eight planets, the dwarf planets, the asteroid and Kuiper belt, and the Oort Cloud.The concluding chapters detail the exploration of Mars to date.on.
The geography of Planet Earth is incredible. From lava lakes, rainbow mountains, auroras, lost world mountains, glowing bioluminescent waters, blood falls, mud volcanoes and blue holes in the ocean. An exploration of 36 extraordinary geographic. These geographic subjects remain little-known and little-documented in other works. Incredible Earth ......
Local Safari offers over seventy easy, safe and ethical ways to discover the nature of your local area. Created in partnership with Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots youth groups, this 160-page book encourages young naturalists to have their own local safari adventures! With a foreword by Jane, the book explores and ‘what lives in my local area’ ......
