Publications

Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Linda McDowell and Peter Sunley (2011) The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography

This book provides a disciplinary history of economic geography by linking 'text to context' or, in other words explaining why economic geographers explored particular themes, subjects and research questions in particular times and places. By placing economic geography in historical and contemporary context, the book reveals the importance of thinking the economy geographically and explains the changing space - and often unruly - trajectory of this part of geography. The book contains 26 chapters written by experts in their field, and is divided into eight main sections, covering the major research directions of the past 100 years or so. These include location models and quantitative geography, political economies of space, political economies of nature, uneven development, geographies of consumption and rethinking the economic.

Published by Sage - find out more (including how to order)

Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko (2010) The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order?

The recent, devastating and ongoing economic crisis has exposed the faultlines in the dominant neoliberal economic order, opening debate for the first time in years on alternative visions that do not subscribe to a 'free' market ethic. In particular, the core contradiction at the heart of neoliberalism – that states are necessary for the functioning of free markets – provides us with the opportunity to think again about how we want to organise our economies and societies. The book presents critical perspectives of neoliberal policies, questions the ideas underpinning neoliberalism, and explores diverse response to it from around the world.

In bringing together the work of distinguished scholars and dedicated activists to question neoliberal hegemony, the book exposes the often fractured and multifarious manifestations of neoliberalism which will have to be challenged to bring about meaningful social change.

Published by Zed Books - find out more (including how to order)

Nick Mount, Gemma Harvey, Paul Aplin and Gary Priestnall (2009) Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment

The natural environment, including the ways in which humans interact with it, represents a complex and dynamic forum for scientific enquiry. Studies seeking to explore and predict characteristics and processes within this field are necessarily associated with a strong geospatial element. This volume identifies particular analytical challenges associated with the application of geographical information science in environmental contexts, and also serves to illustrate broader opportunities and themes relating to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in other areas of science and social science. 

Published by CRC Press - find out more (including how to order)

Eirini Saratasi, Matthias Borgi, Elisabeth Johann, Keith Kirby, Diego Moreno and Charles Watkins (2010) Woodland Cultures in Time and Space: Tales from the past messages for the future

Topics covered by this book include: Conflicting Cultures in Woodland Management, Environmental History of Cultural Landscapes, Successions in Woodland Landscapes, Cultural Histories of Trees and Woods, Traditional Knowledge in Woodland Cultures and Planning and Monitoring Woodland Landscapes.

Published by Embryo Publications - find out more (including how to order)

Paul Elliott, Charles Watkins and Stephen Daniels (2011) The British Arboretum: Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of collecting, the significance to the British economy and society, developments in Enlightenment science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement.

Arboretums were idealised as microcosms of nature, miniature encapsulations of the globe and as living museums. This book critically examines different kinds of arboretum in order to understand the changing practical, scientific, aesthetic and pedagogical principles that underpinned their design, display and the way in which they were viewed. It is the first study of its kind and fills a gap in the literature on Victorian science and culture.

Published by Pickering and Chatto Publishers - find out more (including how to order)

Nicholas Clifford, Shaun French and Gill Valentine (2011) Key Methods in Geography

This book is an introduction to the principal methodological issues involved in the collection, analysis and presentation of geographical information. It is unique in the reference literature for providing an overview of qualitative and quantitative methods for human and physical geography.

An accessible primer, it will be used by students as a reference throughout their degree, on all issues from research design to presentation. This new edition has been fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on internet mediated research, diaries as a research method, making observations and measurements in the field, and the analysis of natural systems.

The book is organised into four sections: getting started in geographical research; generating and working with data in human geography; generating and working with data in physical geography; representing and interpreting geographical data.

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Andrew Cliff, Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Peter Haggett, Donna Stroup and Stephen Thacker (2009) Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis

The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of ‘new’ infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires’ and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local impact. Some outbreaks have erupted explosively but have already faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as now persistent features in the medical lexicon; in others, a huge potential threat hangs uncertainly and worryingly in the air.

This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence. What are the processes which lead to emergence? Why now in human history? Where do such diseases emerge and how do they spread or fail to spread around the globe? What is the armoury of surveillance and control measures that may curb the impact of such diseases? But, uniquely, it sets these questions on the modern period of disease emergence in an historical context. First, it uses the historical record to set recent events against a much broader temporal canvas, finding emergence to be a constant theme in disease history rather than one confined to recent decades. It concludes that it is the quantitative pace of emergence, rather than its intrinsic nature, that separates the present period from earlier centuries. Second, it looks at the spatial and ecological setting of emergence, using hundreds of specially-drawn maps to chart the source areas of new diseases and the pathways of their spread.

Published by Oxford University Press - find out more (inluding how to order)

Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan and Edgar Wunder (2011) Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View

The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980's has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new interpretations of the formation and development of cultural memories from ancient times to the present day.

The volume is divided into five interconnected sections. The first section outlines the theoretical considerations that have shaped recent debates about cultural memory. The second section provides detailed case studies of three key themes: the founding myths of the nation-state, the contestation of national collective memories during periods of civil war, and the oral traditions that move beyond national narrative. The third section examines the role of World War II as a pivotal episode in an emerging European cultural memory. The fourth section focuses on cultural memories in postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The fifth and final section extends the study of cultural memory back into premodern tribal and nomadic societies.

Published by Springer - find out more (including how to order)

Stephen Legg (2011) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos

The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930's Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification for authoritarian, decisional states. Yet at the same time, the post-September 11th 2001 world is one in which a wide range of scholars have increasingly turned to Schmitt to understand a world of "with us or against us" Manichaeism, spaces of exception which seem to be placed outside the law by legal mechanisms themselves, and the contestation of a uni-polar, post-1989 world. This attention marks out Schmitt as one of the foremost emerging theorists in critical theory and assures his work a large and growing audience.

This work brings together geographers, and Schmitt experts who are attuned to the spatial dimensions of his work, to discuss his 1950 work The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum. Explaining the growing audience for Schmitt’s work, a broad range of contributors also examine the Nomos in relation to broader debates about enmity and war, the production of space, the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, and the recuperability of such an intellect tainted by its anti-Semitism and links to the Nazi party.

Published by Routledge - find out more (including how to order)