With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.
Carefully curated by two internationally recognised scholars in the field, entries are written by both distinguished and up and coming researchers and encompass the key ideas, concepts, and theories in human geography. The Encyclopedia examines both long standing subdisciplinary fields in human geography like economic geography and urban geography, but also more recent ones such as emotional geographies and indigenous geographies, making a point about the move to plural geographies. The selection of entries reflects both the influence of established developments, such as the ‘cultural turn’, and new advances including the growing interest in Big Data, the more committed focus on decolonization of the discipline, and interest in research on the Anthropocene.
This will be fundamental reading for human geography students, particularly undergraduates looking for a succinct and accessible resource for current thinking in the field.
Key Features:
- 78 concise entries from diverse international contributors
- Encapsulates the state of the art of research in the field
- Highlights new trends
- Explores the ways in which human geography is starting to decolonize
Author(s): Loretta Lees, David Demeritt
Series: Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 456
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction to the Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Loretta Lees and David Demeritt
1. Activism
2. Actor network theory
3. Affect
4. Animal geographies
5. Anthropocene
6. Art
7. Artificial intelligence
8. Assemblages
9. Big data
10. Bodies
11. Bordering
12. Class
13. Colonialism
14. Comparative geographies
15. Crime
16. Critical geographies
17. Cultural geographies
18. Development geographies
19. Diaspora
20. Digital geographies
21. Disability
22. Displacement
23. Economic geographies
24. Education
25. Emotional
26. Energy
27. Environmental geographies
28. Ethics
29. Ethnography
30. Feminist geographies
31. Food geographies
32. Gender
33. Geographic information systems (GIS)
34. Geopolitics
35. Health geographies
36. Historical geographies
37. Humanistic geographies
38. Identity
39. Indigenous geographies
40. Infrastructure
41. Labour geographies
42. Landscape
43. Legal geographies
44. Marxist geographies
45. Migration geographies
46. Military geographies
47. Mobilities
48. Music
49. Nation-state
50. Nature
51. Neoliberalism
52. Place
53. Political ecology
54. Politics
55. Population geographies
56. Post-colonial geographies
57. Poverty
58. Power
59. Psychoanalytic geographies
60. Public space
61. Race
62. Radical geographies
63. Realism (critical)
64. Relational geographies
65. Religion
66. Representation/al
67. Risk
68. Rural geographies
69. Scale
70. Segregation
71. Sexualities
72. Social geographies
73. Space
74. Time
75. Transport geographies
76. Uneven development
77. Urban geographies
78. Young people
Index
