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Handbook of Niche Tourism (Hardcover): Marina Novelli, Joseph M Cheer, Claudia Dolezal, Adam Jones, Claudio Milano Handbook of Niche Tourism (Hardcover)
Marina Novelli, Joseph M Cheer, Claudia Dolezal, Adam Jones, Claudio Milano
R6,040 R5,352 Discovery Miles 53 520 Save R688 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This Handbook provides a critical analysis of the evolution of the contemporary niche tourism phenomenon. By framing discussions around sustainable development thinking, concepts and practical applications, each chapter provides specific reflections on niche tourism trends, successes and/or failures, and the challenges and opportunities that destinations that pursue tourism as a vehicle for sustainable development face around the world. The Handbook includes a blend of academic and practitioner contributors providing a balance of theoretical, conceptual and empirical elaborations on the topic, with case studies from across the globe. It covers a broad range of critical thematic areas, including: nature-based tourism, rural tourism, heritage and culture based tourism, dark tourism, spiritual, religious and wellness tourism, and social and inclusive tourism. Chapters also examine the latest developments in niche tourism, including the impact of Covid-19. This invigorating and comprehensive study of niche tourism will benefit sustainable tourism scholars, as well as tourism researchers and students more broadly. It will also be useful to policy makers and tourism practitioners seeking a better understanding of this increasingly important field.

Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Justin Armstrong Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Justin Armstrong
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary. Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork, the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected, separated, and divided from ourselves, one another, and the planet. Moving across time, place and disciplinary boundaries, this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland, all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands. This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide, one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and readers from human geography, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and American studies.

Multi-Sensor and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing - Specific Single Class Mapping (Hardcover): Anil Kumar, Priyadarshi Upadhyay,... Multi-Sensor and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing - Specific Single Class Mapping (Hardcover)
Anil Kumar, Priyadarshi Upadhyay, Uttara Singh
R2,323 Discovery Miles 23 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book elaborates fuzzy machine and deep learning models for single class mapping from multi-sensor, multi-temporal remote sensing images while handling mixed pixels and noise. It also covers the ways of pre-processing and spectral dimensionality reduction of temporal data. Further, it discusses the ‘individual sample as mean’ training approach to handle heterogeneity within a class. The appendix section of the book includes case studies such as mapping crop type, forest species, and stubble burnt paddy fields. Key features: Focuses on use of multi-sensor, multi-temporal data while handling spectral overlap between classes Discusses range of fuzzy/deep learning models capable to extract specific single class and separates noise Describes pre-processing while using spectral, textural, CBSI indices, and back scatter coefficient/Radar Vegetation Index (RVI) Discusses the role of training data to handle the heterogeneity within a class Supports multi-sensor and multi-temporal data processing through in-house SMIC software Includes case studies and practical applications for single class mapping This book is intended for graduate/postgraduate students, research scholars, and professionals working in environmental, geography, computer sciences, remote sensing, geoinformatics, forestry, agriculture, post-disaster, urban transition studies, and other related areas.

Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba - Food Security and Nature (Hardcover): Urbano Fra.Paleo, Leonor... Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba - Food Security and Nature (Hardcover)
Urbano Fra.Paleo, Leonor Castiñeiras
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presents a major case study of how agriculture and biodiversity conservation can work in harmony towards more sustainable outcomes for both the environment and local communities. Shows how Cuba has provided a unique testbed for such approaches through its specific political status and focus on traditional agricultural methods. Provides the essential background for understanding future options for agriculture and conservation in Cuba, as it emerges from economic and political isolation.

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire - Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation (Paperback): Sarah Dietz Entrepreneurship in the Age of Empire - Colonialism, Collaboration and Exploitation (Paperback)
Sarah Dietz
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India. In a watershed period for commercial culture, as family capitalism and industrial economics gave way to a predominance of speculative investment and the marketing of ideas, analysis of this London-registered company and its international management forms a lens through which to view the broader socio-political and economic environment of the late-Victorian period to the interwar. Mapping the eclectic bonds that created a network of association between a multinational cast of merchants, company promoters, mining engineers, politicians and industrialists, reveals the multiplicity of strands which coalesced to create one share company. By examining their responses to the opportunities created by colonialism: to enabling legislations and set-backs, to competition and collaboration, internationalism versus rising nationalism, an important era in British history is examined from an entirely fresh perspective. The history of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited is a tale of cloaked agendas, of land speculation under the guise of colonial agriculture, of German and Russian interests embedded in British-empire prospects, which exposes the intrigues of some of the most infamous imperialists of the era; figures who were the subject of intense academic scrutiny throughout the twentieth century and remain at the forefront of impassioned debate in the twenty first.

Tourism in Asian Cities (Paperback): Saurabh Kumar Dixit Tourism in Asian Cities (Paperback)
Saurabh Kumar Dixit
R1,217 Discovery Miles 12 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This timely and significant book explores the characteristics and complexities of Asian urban tourism, considering the extent to which Western paradigms can be transferred to Asian settings and the striking contrasts that exist within the region. In an era of unprecedented urban expansion in Asian cities, this book comes at a time of great urgency, illuminating the possible problems and opportunities that arise when a destination emerges as a tourism hotspot. Split into three parts; introducing Asian urban tourism and urbanization, the management and marketing of Asian cities, and emerging trends and issues associated with Asian urban tourism, the book offers a range of varying and vibrant perspectives from international and interdisciplinary experts in the field. Chapters include studies on a wide range of destinations such as Hong Kong, Macau, Cambodia, Phuket, Kolkata, Busan, Delhi, and Sri Lanka among many others, and explore crucial contemporary themes such as overtourism, urbanization and administrative challenges, world heritage, smart cities and the use of technologies such as VR in urban tourism experience creation. It will be a vital resource for upper-level students, researchers, and academics in tourism, city tourism, Asian studies, development studies, cultural studies, and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management.

Blogging Wildlife - The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback): Kate Marx Blogging Wildlife - The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
Kate Marx
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on the Appalachian Trail. Based on narratives provided by trail hikers, it explores the ways in which humans relate to the animals with whom they temporarily share a home. With attention to the themes of pilgrimage, the changing perception of the animals encountered and reactions to them, risk, auditory experience, and a sense of wildness, the author considers the meaning constituted by nonhuman animals in the context of the walkers' narrative journeys. A phenomenologically informed study of the ways in which people perceive wild animals when in an unmediated wilderness setting, how they navigate interactions with them, and how they experience living among them, Blogging Wildlife will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in anthrozoology and human-animal relations.

Local and Regional Development (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Andy Pike, John Tomaney, Andres Rodriguez-Pose Local and Regional Development (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Andy Pike, John Tomaney, Andres Rodriguez-Pose
R4,969 Discovery Miles 49 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi-actor and multi-level systems of government and governance and a re-ordering of the international political economy; state austerity and retrenchment; and, new and reformed approaches to intervention, policy and institutions for local and regional development. Local and Regional Development provides an accessible, critical and integrated examination of local and regional development theory, institutions and policy in this changing context. Amidst its rising importance, the book addresses the fundamental issues of 'what kind of local and regional development and for whom?', its purposes, principles and values, frameworks of understanding, approaches and interventions, and integrated approaches to local and regional development throughout the world. The approach provides a theoretically informed, critical analysis of contemporary local and regional development in an international and multi-disciplinary context, grounded in concrete empirical analysis from experiences in the global North and South. It concludes by identifying what might constitute holistic, inclusive, progressive and sustainable local and regional development, and reflecting upon its limits and political renewal.

Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing (Hardcover): Rosalie Jones McVey Human-Horse Relations and the Ethics of Knowing (Hardcover)
Rosalie Jones McVey
R3,561 Discovery Miles 35 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores how equestrians are highly invested in the idea of profound connection between horse and human and focuses on the ethical problem of knowing horses. In describing how ‘true’ connection with horses matters, Rosalie Jones McVey investigates what sort of thing comes to count as a ‘good relationship’ and how riders work to get there. Drawing on fieldwork in the British horse world, she illuminates the ways in which equestrian culture instils the idea that horse people should know their horses better. Using horsemanship as one exemplary instance where ‘truth’ holds ethical traction, the book demonstrates the importance of epistemology in late modern ethical life. It also raises the question of whether, and how, the concept of truth should matter to multispecies ethnographers in their ethnographic representations of animals.

Medical Geography - Techniques and Field Studies (Hardcover): N D McGlashan Medical Geography - Techniques and Field Studies (Hardcover)
N D McGlashan
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first book of its kind when originally published in 1972, this book discusses techniques, types of maps and atlases, case histories illustrations of both disease incidence and distribution of medical services, and some examples of theoretical models linked with practical work. It shows the importance of medical geography as a research tool in preparing and collecting data concerning the incidence of disease. In the light of the recent Ebola outbreak, this book is of continued relevance, with some of the chapters focussing on Malawi, Zambia, Ghana and other African countries.

Routledge Library Editions: Human Geography (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Human Geography (Hardcover)
Various
R33,813 Discovery Miles 338 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published between 1972 and 1996 the 19 diverse volumes in this set cover key areas of human geography such as: transport, development, health, defence, the media, recreation & leisure, politics, poverty and wealth. Written by international authors including Jacquelin Burgess, John Gold, Robin Haynes, Keith Hoggart, Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, Nurit Kliot and Stanley Waterman, specific volumes focus on Scotland, the UK, Western Europe, Tanzania and the USA.

Biogeography in the Sub-Arctic - The Past and Future of North Atlantic Biota (Hardcover): E Panagiotakopulu Biogeography in the Sub-Arctic - The Past and Future of North Atlantic Biota (Hardcover)
E Panagiotakopulu
R2,401 Discovery Miles 24 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is no escaping the fact that the island biogeography of the North Atlantic Region is singularly peculiar. Sitting in the north of the Atlantic Ocean, these islands have been subjected to largescale shifts in climate over the last few million years, unlike the other island groups further south which were likely more buffered from the vicissitudes of Quaternary climate changes. Uniquely for a group of islands there is only one documented extinction in the North Atlantic (the Great Auk), and those in the insects are local events relating to species that are distributed throughout the Palaearctic region. Over half the insect species in Iceland and Greenland are introduced. The faunas, excluding Greenland, are predominantly of Palaearctic origin and have close affinities with the faunas of Scandinavia and the British Isles and. These unique physical and biological characteristics have interested biologists and biogeographers for centuries. The key debates concerning the biogeography of the North Atlantic islands still rumble on: Do the biota reflect cryptic refugia or otherwise, or tabula rasa and recolonization? How important were human communities in shaping the existing biota and biogeographical patterns? Throw into this mix current concerns over global warming, and we can now ask, how resilient is the biota to change, either natural or anthropogenic? This volume draws together a range of researchers with longstanding research interests in the region, from diverse academic backgrounds, to evaluate some of these questions.

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism - (Re)Assembling Urban Space (Paperback): Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey Temporary and Tactical Urbanism - (Re)Assembling Urban Space (Paperback)
Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns. These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repressed by the fixities of urban form and its management. This book takes a thematic approach to explore what the scope of this practice is, and understand why it has risen to prominence, how it works, who is involved, and what its implications are for the future of city design and planning. It critically examines the material, social, economic and political complexities that surround and enable these small, ephemeral urban interventions. It identifies their short-term and long-term implications for urban intensity, diversity, creativity and adaptability. The book's insights into temporary and tactical urbanism have particular relevance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted both the need and the possibility of quickly transforming urban spaces worldwide. They also reveal significant lessons for the long-term planning and design of buildings, landscapes and cities.

Handbook on Tourism and China (Hardcover): Songshan Huang, Ganghua Chen Handbook on Tourism and China (Hardcover)
Songshan Huang, Ganghua Chen
R6,067 Discovery Miles 60 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Covering a wide range of current issues, this comprehensive Handbook explores the links between tourism as a dynamic tertiary industry and China as the world's most influential tourism market and destination. From China outbound tourism, Chinese outbound tourists and the growth of smart tourism to the development of sectors such as the hotel market, theme parks and cruise tourism, contributors provide the latest indigenous knowledge otherwise unavailable to the global tourism research community. This essential reference allows readers to develop a fine-grained understanding of the current state of the art of research on tourism and China, all the more crucial given the fast speed of China's development and transformation and innovative industry practices in tourism. Vital reading for academics and researchers in need of the latest knowledge on Chinese tourism, this distinctive Handbook also offers a wealth of insight for students studying Chinese tourism, business and hospitality management. Industry practitioners in business management and marketing will also benefit from its insights into a flourishing international market. Contributors include: J. Bao, M.J. Bauman, P. Benckendorff, G. Brown, S. Cai, G. Chen, M. Cheng, J. Fountain, H. Gao, H. Gu, Q. Gu, M. Huang, S. Huang, Y. Jiang, B. Li, M. Li, X. Li, Z. Liang, X. Luo, Z. Mai, Y. Qin, Y. Rao, B.W. Ritchie, M.M. Su, J. Sun, X. Sun, J. Wang, B. Weiler, J. Wen, H.A. Williams, Y. Yang, J. Yin, J. Yuan, B. Zhai, S. Zhao, D. Zheng, L. Zhong, Y. Zhu, Y. Zou, B. Zuo

The Green Case (Routledge Revivals) - A Sociology of Environmental Issues, Arguments and Politics (Paperback): Steven Yearley The Green Case (Routledge Revivals) - A Sociology of Environmental Issues, Arguments and Politics (Paperback)
Steven Yearley
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of 'green' arguments and their social and political implications. By the beginning of the 1990s, environmental awareness had become widespread, popular, and fashionable throughout the West, adopted by politicians, manufacturers and advertising agencies. The book sets out to explain why and how the 'green wave' developed, and examines the forces still shaping green politics and policies at an international level. With important implications across the fields of Sociology, Development Studies and Environment and Sustainability, this reissue will be valuable to a broad student and research readership.

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals - Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education (Paperback): Astrid Skjerven, Maureen... Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals - Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education (Paperback)
Astrid Skjerven, Maureen Fordham
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, doing so by investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education, and infrastructure. Starting with a theoretical and methodological framework, this edited collection contains 12 chapters from scholars and researchers from around the world. The book includes numerous case studies discussing the current status of gender equality relating to the SDGs. It reinforces the significance of gender for sustainable and just development, highlighting how women play a major role in work organization, disaster management, income, household maintenance, and mediation of knowledge. "Women" as a classification encompasses much diversity with many intersecting axes of difference; this book focuses on the excluded and disadvantaged majority social group, without imposing homogeneity on that categorization. Many chapters focus on critical situations occurring in the Global South, where these issues are highly prominent, and importantly, these contributions are written by local scholars. Finally, the volume provides pathways for basic and professional gender responsive education and innovation in the field. The book will generate important discussions in interdisciplinary research and higher education settings focusing on sustainable development, gender, equality, human rights, and education.

Planning in Eastern Europe (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Andrew H Dawson Planning in Eastern Europe (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Andrew H Dawson
R5,080 Discovery Miles 50 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Planning is particularly important in Eastern Europe since most spatial change and economic planning are the products of centralised decision-making, which in turn is the product of a systematic socio-political ideology. Planning is therefore an important key to understanding society, economy and spatial change in Eastern Europe. This book, which was first published in 1987, provides a comprehensive overview of planning in Eastern Europe. Each chapter discusses the nature of planning in the country in question and the changes which have taken place since 1945, and examines regional, economic, land-use, environmental protection and urban design policies and their achievements in the post- 1945 period. Introductory chapters discuss the physical, economic and political background of the area and a conclusion considers overall successes and failures and discusses likely future developments. This book is ideal for students of geography.

Geographies of Food and Power (Paperback): Amy  Trauger Geographies of Food and Power (Paperback)
Amy Trauger
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Strong critical geographical perspective Coverage of key geographical concepts to frame the book contents Offers a fresh perspective focusing on inequality, uneven production and legacies of colonialism by taking an intersectional approach to difference and power The food systems lens through which to discuss issues of sustainability, food insecurity and food justice, and the histories and uneven outcomes of commodity chains The use of specific and relatable examples throughout but especially in chapter 7 through 11, these are all relevant to contemporary systems, experiences and trends in food production and consumption that my students care about and are questioning and will be working to improve/change.

The Pedestrian and the City (Hardcover): Carmen Hass-Klau The Pedestrian and the City (Hardcover)
Carmen Hass-Klau
R5,253 Discovery Miles 52 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian footpaths and the popularity of traffic calming as a powerful policy for reducing pedestrian accidents.

Hass-Klau also covers the wider aspects of urban and transport planning, especially public transport, since these are important for promoting a pedestrian-friendly environment. The book includes pedestrian-friendly policies and guidelines from a number of European countries and includes case studies from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, the US and Canada, with further examples from ten additional countries. It also contains a unique collection of original photographs; including before and after photos of newly introduced pedestrian-friendly transport policies.

As the pedestrian environment has become ever more crucial for the future of our cities, the book will be invaluable to students and practicing planners, geographers, transport engineers and local government officers. "

Prisoners Of Geography - Our World Explained In 12 Simple Maps (Hardcover, New Edition): Tim Marshall Prisoners Of Geography - Our World Explained In 12 Simple Maps (Hardcover, New Edition)
Tim Marshall 1
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spread over ten chapters, using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, 'Prisoners of Geography' looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history.

Farming Futures - Reimagining Producer Collectives in India (Hardcover): C. Shambu Prasad, Ajit Kanitkar, Deborah Dutta Farming Futures - Reimagining Producer Collectives in India (Hardcover)
C. Shambu Prasad, Ajit Kanitkar, Deborah Dutta
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies the management challenges and possibilities in sustaining Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). It goes beyond the conventional metrics of cost-benefit analysis by drawing on fifteen case studies of diverse FPOs spread across India to fill a significant knowledge-practice gap in the domain of producer collectives. The book explores issues of ownership and governance, studies the empirical basis for policy decisions on FPOs, and provides actionable insights and knowledge, keeping in mind the complexity of the institutional design of an FPO. It also discusses the envisioned role of civil society organisations in supporting FPOs and looks at the kind of institutional innovations that are needed to create a cohesive ecosystem for FPOs. A unique collaborative project jointly authored by academics and development practitioners, the book will be of use to students and researchers of agricultural economics, environment and business, agricultural development, environmental economics, rural studies, entrepreneurship, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to development professionals, civil society organisations, and policy makers.

Social Geography (Routledge Revivals) - An International Perspective (Paperback): John Eyles Social Geography (Routledge Revivals) - An International Perspective (Paperback)
John Eyles
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Social geography has been one of the most important growth areas within the field of geography in recent decades. It has brought within geographical analysis a wide range of new topics, such as ethnic segregation, crime and environment and inner city problems. First published in 1986, this edited collection surveys the field of social geography. Using key international case studies from across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, authors discuss the different trends, leading figures and issues of concern in social geography throughout the world. This is a comprehensive and accessible study that will be of particular interest to students of social and human geography, urban and environmental planning.

Tourism and Violence (Hardcover, New Ed): Hazel Andrews Tourism and Violence (Hardcover, New Ed)
Hazel Andrews
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, and tourism studies. Ideas and concepts of violence have long been explored in the social sciences literature but in relation to tourism studies specifically the concept has rarely been problematised. Drawing on a range of case studies this book demonstrates the relationship between tourism and violence both in its overt physical form and in the social structures and symbolic landscapes that underpin touristic activity. Tourism and Violence offers a timely intervention in this field by bringing together, for the first time, work by scholars who, in their different ways, are engaging with the concept of violence within touristic settings and practices. This unique book paves the way for future research that will probe further the intersections between violence and tourism.

Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (Paperback): Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai Smith,... Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (Paperback)
Brendan Hokowhitu, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Chris Andersen, Steve Larkin
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include: * Indigenous Sovereignty * Indigeneity in the 21st Century * Indigenous Epistemologies * The Field of Indigenous Studies * Global Indigeneity This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought. This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in Indigenous peoples across Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Maori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.

Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Peter A. Jackson, Susan J. Smith Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Peter A. Jackson, Susan J. Smith
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. The argument emphasises the essentially spatial structure of social interaction, and includes a succinct discussion of geographical research on segregation and interaction, which has combined numerical analyses and qualitative ethnographic field research. A distinctive view of social geography is adopted, inspired by the Chicago school of North American pragmatism, but also incorporating the formal sociological theories of Simmel and Weber. Exploring Social Geography will be of value to students of urban geography in particular. However, it will also indicate a wide-ranging and distinctive perspective for all students of the social sciences with a special interest in debates concerning urban, ethnic, racial, anthropological and theoretical issues.

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