By Michael Samers

Within the context of worldwide safeguard matters, humanitarian crises and talent shortages migration and immigration became valuable to monetary, political and social debates at the start of the twenty-first century. And whereas migration and immigration have on no account escaped the eye of social scientists, the learn of either continues to be the main ‘under-serviced’ educational area with recognize to introductory texts. it isn't incredible then that even fewer books have explored the contours of those social phenomena from an explicitly geographical standpoint – in different phrases, by way of ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘scale’. Migration is a sophisticated, but obtainable, creation to migration and immigration in a world context. It deals a serious, multi-disciplinary method of the topic, borrowing from human geography, political technology, social anthropology and sociology. even though, not like different huge volumes at the topic, it emphasises a theoretical and conceptual method of the learn of migration. in particular, Migration adopts a special geographical method through making use of spatial strategies reminiscent of position, scale, and territory. utilizing those spatial techniques, the writer argues that the majority reports of migration start with both an undue emphasis on realms as a lens on migration or to the contrary depend on exaggerated notions of trans-nationalism. Migration neither neglects the significance of country states nor the importance of transnationalism, however it makes a speciality of how neighborhood contexts topic to migration. The publication covers such themes as migration different types, the reason of other kinds of migration, migration and employment, the geopolitics of migration and immigration and citizenship, rights, and belonging. this article isn't really easily an encyclopaedic assessment of migration theories, traits and evidence; particularly, it's designed to have lasting highbrow price by means of delivering specific arguments in each one theme-based bankruptcy. whereas it advocates sure arguments, it's also sincerely written in an attractive and obtainable demeanour for an undergraduate viewers. Its transparent constitution is complemented by way of a mixture of pedagogical gains, resembling case-study bins, precis questions on the finish of every bankruptcy and a word list. The ebook is designed for classes and modules on migration and immigration on the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and either scholars and lecturers will locate it highly precious.

By Pradyumna P. Karan

Via a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary strategy, this introductory textbook specializes in serious problems with improvement, atmosphere, and cultural conflicts dealing with such a lot quarter of the non-Western international. parts lined contain China, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the center East, and sub-Saharan Africa.

By Nigel Thrift, Rob Kitchin

By Michael C. Hall, Jarkko Saarinen

The world’s polar areas are attracting extra curiosity than ever prior to. as soon as considered as barren, inhospitable locations the place purely explorers move, the north and south polar areas were reworked into excessive profile tourism locations, more and more visited through cruise ships in addition to changing into obtainable with direct flights. Tourism is noticeable as one of many few monetary possibilities in those areas yet whilst the polar areas are being unfolded to tourism improvement they're suffering from a few new components which are interconnected to go back and forth and tourism. weather switch, panorama and species loss, expanding curiosity in power assets and minerals, social adjustments in indigenous societies, and a brand new polar geopolitics all deliver into query the sustainability of polar areas and where of tourism inside them. This well timed quantity presents a modern account of tourism and its affects in polar areas. It explores the advance and customers of polar tourism, in addition to tourism’s affects and linked swap at excessive latitudes from environmental, financial, social and political views. It attracts on innovative learn from either the Arctic and Antarctic to supply a comparative evaluation and illustrate the true existence matters bobbing up from tourism’s position in those areas. Integrating idea and perform the ebook totally evaluates various views on polar tourism and proposes activities that may be taken by way of neighborhood and worldwide administration to accomplish a sustainable destiny for polar areas and improvement of tourism. this entire and present account of polar tourism concerns is written by way of a global crew of prime researchers during this zone and should have worldwide attract larger point scholars, researchers, lecturers in Tourism, Environmental experiences, Arctic/Polar experiences and conservation lovers alike.

By J. Mulberg

Smooth economics makes a lot of its declare to be neutral, goal and value-free however it is not able to deal with our so much quick difficulties similar to common environmental degradation and protracted poverty. In Social Limits to financial conception Jon Mulberg argues for a brand new revolutionary political economic system, in line with notions of neighborhood and justice and incorporating environmental and moral concerns. In doing so he presents the easiest creation to this point to severe, non-orthodox economics.

By Gillian Rose

Geography is a topic which all through its historical past has been ruled through males; males have undertaken the heroic explorations which shape the mythology of its origin, males have written so much of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's pursuits have established what counts as valid geographical wisdom. This booklet bargains a sustained exam of the masculinism of up to date geographical discourses.

Drawing at the paintings of feminist theories concerning the intersection of strength, wisdom and subjectivity, diverse facets of the discipline's masculinism are mentioned in a chain of essays which deliver influential ways in contemporary geography including feminist bills of the gap of the standard, the proposal of a feeling of position and perspectives of panorama. within the ultimate bankruptcy, the spatial imagery of a number of feminists is tested so one can argue that the geographical mind's eye implicit in feminist discussions of the politics of position is one instance of a geography which doesn't deny distinction within the identify of a common masculinity.

By Paterson, Mark; Dodge, Martin

On condition that contact and touching is so valuable to daily embodied life, why has it been principally missed by means of social scientists for therefore lengthy? what's the position of contact in our combined areas of sociality, paintings, domesticity, game, creativity or care? What conceptual assets and educational languages do we achieve in the direction of while coming near near tactile actions and somatic reviews in the course of the physique? How is this tactile panorama gendered? How is contact turning into revisited and revalidated in overdue capitalism via animal encounters, tourism, therapeutic massage, attractiveness remedies, expert medication, daily spiritualities or the aseptic touch-free areas of automatic bogs? How is contact put and valued inside of scholarly fieldwork and examine itself, crucial because it is to the creation of embodied epistemologies? How is contact interested in such aesthetic reports as shaping items in sand, or encountering fleshly our bodies inside of a portray? The objective of this edited assortment, Touching house, putting contact is twofold: o To extra strengthen theoretical and empirical knowing of contact in social technological know-how scholarship through focussing at the differential social and cultural meanings of touching and the areas of contact. o To enhance a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary causes of contact by way of person and social lifestyles, own studies and projects, and their comparable cultural contexts. The twelve essays during this quantity offer a wealthy mixture of theoretical assets, methodological ways and empirical research. each one bankruptcy takes a different point of contact inside a specific spatial context, exploring this via a mix of sustained empirical paintings, serious theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic ways to gendered contact and touching, or the connection among visible and non-visual tradition, to articulate whatever of the diversity and variability of touching stories. The individuals are a mix of tested and rising researchers inside a growing to be interdisciplinary box of scholarship, but the amount has a powerful thematic id and as a result represents the formative assortment in regards to the a number of senses of contact inside of social technological know-how scholarship at this time.  Read more...

By doug cocks

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary research (including heritage and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary point of view of the modern international approach. This e-book compares and evaluations attitudes held by means of individuals with diversified international perspectives to the hypothetical prospect of huge frequent falls in caliber of lifestyles. It additionally attracts insights from those analyses to enhance and recommend a philosophy of Ecohumanism to humans of excellent will who are looking to imagine constructively concerning the world’s converging difficulties, i.e. imagine altruistically and ‘think like an evolving ecosystem.’