This text introduces students to the main issues, theories, and methods related to the study of food from a geographic perspective. Concise and accessible, it provides an overview of key issues in the study of food and illustrates them with current examples from around the world. As the first textbook on this topic, it provides students with ......
Authoritative yet accessible, the definitive undergraduate text on Russian geography and culture has now been thoroughly revised with the latest data and hot topics, such as the political crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol.
This volume brings together five essays that represent the latest directions in the study of geography in classical antiquity. Arranged chronologically, these contributions cover several hundred years of ancient geographical scholarship, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia and the prehistoric New World to the Roman Empire, and deal with topics ......
This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of "islandness." The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
The Foundation of Australia's Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia's seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments, resulting in development patterns than have persisted today.
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 ......
If the predictions are correct, climate change will force millions of people from their homes, threatening a future of humanitarian crises, political violence, and strife. In The Other of Climate Change, Andrew Baldwin intervenes in the international political debate about climate change and human migration to tell a different story. He argues ......
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 ......
