Space, Place and Society – serie
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Geography Inside Out
Inbunden, 2002
347 kr
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Taking sharp aim at complacent geography scholars, this irreverent book turns the world of academic geography upside down. The author joins with his alter ego, the incorrigible Korski, to draw fire from his own personal and professional experience, exposing a discipline soiled by cerebral litter.
Putting Health Into Place
Landscape, Identity, and Well-being
Av Robin A Kearns, Robin A. Kearns m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
284 kr
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Putting Health into Place draws together original works that collectively argue for a reinvention of medical geography. There is a growing interest worldwide in relationships between human health and the experience of place, an interest driven both by developments in sociocultural theory and …
At Home
An Anthropology of Domestic Space
Häftad, 2006
217 kr
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In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines - art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology - Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays …
Riverscapes and National Identities
Häftad, 2019
224 kr
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Painted riverscapes such as Claude Monet’s impressions of the Seine, Isaak Levitan’s Volga views, or Thomas Cole’s Hudson scenery became iconic not least because they embodied nationalist ideas about place and about culture. At a time when nationalism was taking root across Europe and the United …
Imagined Country
Environment, Culture, and Society
Häftad, 2005
217 kr
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This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.
Politics of Landscapes in Singapore
Constructions of Nation
Av Lily Kong, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Häftad, 2003
226 kr
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This book shows how power relations that define and challenge the concept of ""nation"" are played out in and through landscapes. Has the era of globalization neutralized the institution of ""nation?"" This thought-provoking book focuses on attempts to build ""nation"" through landscape. …
Making Space
Revisioning the World, 1475-1600
Inbunden, 2004
296 kr
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In his latest work, John Rennie Short reveals how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. The cosmos was bound in a sphere; the world was gridded and plotted, the globe navigated, and the land surveyed. Spatial …
Inventing Black-on-Black Violence
Discourse, Space, and Representation
Av David Wilson
Inbunden, 2005
290 kr
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This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black" - referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased identities, and rampant physical decay made American blacks seem ripe for explosive behavior. Many people …
Tel Aviv
Mythography of a City
Inbunden, 2006
357 kr
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Founded in 1909 as a ""garden suburb"" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness …
From Empire to Empire
Jerusalem Between Ottoman and British Rule
Inbunden, 2011
416 kr
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The history of Jerusalem as traditionally depicted is the quintessential history of conflict and strife, of ethnic tension, and of incompatible national narratives and visions. It is also a history of dramatic changes and moments, one of the most radical ones being the replacement of the Ottoman …
Green Syndicalism
An Alternative Red/Green Vision
Av Jeff Shantz
Inbunden, 2012
456 kr
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It is widely understood that the burdens of ecological destruction are borne disproportionately by working-class and poor communities, both through illness and disease caused by pollutants and through the depletion of natural resources from which they make a living. Yet, consistently, the voices of …
Tel Aviv
Mythography of a City
Häftad, 2020
266 kr
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Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness …
From Abbotts to Zurich
New York State Placenames
Av Ren Vasiliev
Häftad, 2004
118 kr
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Sangerfield: The town was established in 1795 on land originally owned by Jebediah Sanger who, wanting to have a new settlement named after him, promised a cask of rum for the first town meeting and 50 acres to the first church. The rum was drunk at the first town meeting in 1795. The Native …
New Worlds, New Geographies
Häftad, 2000
245 kr
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In this text, John Rennie Short connects global change, urban transformation and scholarly integrity. He elucidates the struggles of governments and individuals to situate themselves within the changing nation states and the restructurings of urban spaces into a type of global village.
Geographical Voices
Fourteen Autobiographical Essays
Av Peter Gould, Forrest R. Pitts
Häftad, 2002
386 kr
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Essays by fourteen influential geographers provide timely examples of practical geographical scholarship and a useful antidote to ""ivory tower"" theories.
Boundless Self
Communication in Physical and Virtual Spaces
Inbunden, 2005
344 kr
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Using the body as an axis for geographical theory, this book argues that communication empowers self to constantly transcend its physical limits. It urges complete review of personal borders in space and time based on symbols, signs and signals that redefine ties to the tangible world, i.e., ""Dear …
Alabaster Cities
Urban U.S. Since 1950
Inbunden, 2006
344 kr
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With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. John Rennie Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping …
Women, Religion, and Space
Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith
Av Karen M. Morin, Jeanne Kay Guelke
Häftad, 2007
217 kr
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Contributors to this volume study women who practice or interact with the gender norms and spaces of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The book focuses on questions of how and why religious and secular authorities seek to regulate women's mobility and access to particular spaces, and how religious …
Frontiers of Femininity
A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West
Av Karen Morin
Inbunden, 2008
354 kr
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British explorer and professional travel writer Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and world explorers of her generation, she was, in 1892, the first woman elected to London's Royal Geographic Society. And yet Bird's books on her travels …
Globalizing City
The Urban and Economic Transformation of Accra, Ghana
Inbunden, 2009
302 kr
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As urbanization of the world's population grows at an ever-increasing pace, the need to understand the effects of globalization on cities is at the forefront of urban studies. Traditional scholarship largely employs a framework of analysis based on the globablizing experience of Western cities. In …
