Böcker i Routledge Studies in Human Geography-serien

This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital commons, and new practices of being in common, such as community economies and solidarity networks. The commons is seen as a contested domain of the collective and as a changing way of being in common, with the balance poised in the tensile play between political economy and social innovation. The book focuses on the possibility of recovering a future in which more can be held by the many, focusing on three concepts: nation and nature, publics and rights, and bodies.

This book brings together recent scholarly work concerned with efforts around the world to transform cities so that they are more age-friendly. Common to all of the initiatives is recognition of the importance of the community environment for the well-being of the rapidly growing numbers of older people. The collection includes chapters that examine the circumstances in which communities currently undertake significant age-friendly initiatives, public-private collaboration in age-friendly initiatives, collaboration across institutional sectors in age-friendly initiatives, policies that facilitate age-friendly developments, and the bases upon which age-friendly initiatives should be evaluated. It will be of interest to scholars in various fields including urban planning, gerontology, transportation planning, environmental design, and adult education.

This international collection of case studies examines the spatial dynamics of today's music industry. Students of geography, business, economics, and cultural studies will find this volume helpful in answering questions about how and where music is produced, financed, marketed, curated and distributed in the digital age.

This volume traces the spatialities and politics of mobility, critically examining the articulation of urban space through transportation infrastructure and everyday flows, exploring connections in spatial theory and practice between transport geographies and new mobilities in the production of networked urban places.

This book explores the spatial manifestations of dealing with bereavement and grief. It resituate and revisits "consolation" as an analytical concept that manifests in various locations. This book offers a spectrum in which the meaning consolation fluctuates in accordance with the spatial practice that seeks to employ modes of coping with grief and bereavement. It provides both theoretical and empirical chapters, and is also structured by a division that separates European-placed chapters from chapters focused outside the `Global North¿.

Islands and their environs ΓÇô aerial, terrestrial, aquatic ΓÇô may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental ΓÇô a conversation among these authors and the editor ΓÇô while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographiesΓÇÖ past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.

Time Geography is a mode of thinking that helps us understand how change occurs in society, the wider context and the ecological consequences of our actions. This book brings together international time-geographic research from a range of disciplines. Contributions from The Netherlands, USA, Japan, China, Norway and Sweden showcase the diverse palette of time-geography research. Chapters study societies adjusting to rapid urbanisation, or investigate the need for structural changes in childcare organization.This book looks at the outlook for this developing branch of research and the application of time-geography to societal and academic contexts. The interdisciplinary nature will be appealing to postgraduates and researchers who are interested in human geography, urban and regional planning and sociology.

This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners. Drawing upon detailed case studies, it demonstrates the diverse roles of design in shaping mobility at different spaces and scales: across cities; within different types of buildings and infrastructures; and through commuting, work and leisure activities. A range of international scholars illustrate the designed mobilities of car parks, traffic lights, street benches, pedestrian wayfinding systems and accessible design in the urban environment; they examine spaces within hospitals, airports and train stations and investigate design practices for bicycles, future urban vehicles and MotoGP motorcycle racing. Other contributions explore overlooked mobile artefacts such as television and video game remote controls, 3D printing and the types of packaging which enable objects themselves to move around. This book demonstrates how the tools, assumptions and processes of design shape spaces of mobility, and also illuminates how shifts in the fluidity and circulation of people, practices and materials in turn reconfigure practices of design. Mobilising Design develops multi-disciplinary understandings of design, drawing upon diverse literatures including design history, product design, architecture and cultural geography. By highlighting often invisible artefacts and associated knowledges and controversies, the book foregrounds the taken-for-granted ways in which everyday mobility is designed. It will be of interest to scholars in geography, sociology, economic history, architecture, design and urban theory.

Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ''ecologicalisation'' of knowledge. This book adopts a much needed ''more-than-human'' framework to grasp these complexities and challenges. It contains multidisciplinary insights and diverse methodological approaches to question how to revise, reshape and invent methods in order to work with non-humans in participatory ways. The book offers a framework for thinking critically about the promises and potentialities of participation from within a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its future development. It will be of interest to those working in the environmental humanities, animal studies, science and technology studies, ecology, and anthropology.

This book challenges the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of movement. This book brings together contributions that speak to contemporary debates across carceral studies and mobilities research, offering fresh insights to both areas by identifying and unpicking the manifold mobilities that shape, and are shaped by, carceral regimes. It features five sections that move the reader through the varying typologies of motion underscoring carceral life: tension; transition; circulation; distribution; transposition. Each mobilities-led section seeks to explore the politics encapsulated in specific regimes of carceral movement.

This book focuses on the innovative forms of solidarity that develop around the joint appropriation and the envisaged common future of specific places. Drawing on examples from schools, streets, community centers, workplaces, churches, housing projects and sporting projects, it provides an alternative research agenda from the "loss of community"

This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences.

This book explores common ethical issues faced by human geographers in their research. It offers practical guidance for research planning and design that incorporates geographic disciplinary knowledge to conceptualise research ethics.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and terrorism; challenges in transportation; media and the world community; the world community and diseases; cities, and the endangered Earth. This book will be of interest to those studying geography, human-environment relations, politics, globalization studies and international relations.

This thematic collection of articles, with case studies and co-authored commentaries, contributed to by leading scholars, advances debates about rural childhood. Based on international research and theoretical innovation, it examines the socio-cultural contexts faced by the young.

This is the first book-length, edited volume to showcase recent geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity and offer a timely intervention within the field of critical human geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and the spatiality of performative politics.

Felix Guattari was a French philosopher, known for his work in an institutional psychiatric clinic during the 1950s. His ideas remain intrinsic to the social sciences sphere today. This interdisciplinary book evaluates Guattari's experimental and creative production of ideas, primarily through an Geography lens. This book demonstrates the pertin