Human geography in the last decade has undergone a conceptual and
methodological renaissance that transformed it into one of the most
dynamic and innovative of the social sciences. Long a borrower of
ideas from other disciplines, geography has become a contributor in
its own right, and a "spatial turn" is evident in disciplines as
diverse as Sociology, Anthropology, and Literary Criticism. With
more than 300 entries written by an international team of leading
authorities in the field, the Encyclopedia of Human Geography
offers a comprehensive overview of the major ideas, concepts,
terms, and approaches that characterize a notoriously diverse
field. This multidisciplinary volume provides cross-cultural
coverage of human geography as it is understood in the contemporary
world and takes into account the enormous conceptual changes that
have evolved since the 1970s, including a variety of social
constructivist approaches. Key Features Examines a range of themes
characterizing different schools of thought and addresses
long-standing topics, such as urban, economic, and medical
geography, as well as contemporary topics, including feminism, the
social dimensions of GIS, and the social construction of nature
Explores many of the dualities that long characterized social
science-nature versus society, the individual versus the social,
the historical versus the geographical, consumption versus
production-and breaks them down using postmodern and
poststructuralist approaches Illustrates how social and spatial
structures draw upon people's daily lives, which in turn structures
their actions Looks at how globalization has manifested differently
from place to place by discussing topics such as transnational
capital, international trade, global commodity chains, global
cities, international financial and telecommunications systems, and
how the global economy is reshaping geopolitics and governance Key
Themes Cartography/Geographical Information Systems Economic
Geography Geographic Theory and History Political Geography
Social/Cultural Geography Urban Geography
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