BOOK
An Introduction to Human Geography 5th edn
Peter Daniels | Michael Bradshaw | Denis Shaw | James Sidaway | Tim Hall
(2016)
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Abstract
The fifth edition of this widely used text provides a global overview of the major topics within human geography, including food security and population, geopolitics and territory, inequality and power, production, consumption, the global financial system, governance and now a new chapter on citizenship. Substantial and comprehensively updated chapters ensure balanced treatment across the range of contemporary human geography.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Cover | ||
Half Title Page | i | ||
Title Page | iii | ||
Copyright Page | iv | ||
Dedication | v | ||
Brief Contents | vi | ||
Contents in detail | vii | ||
Contributors | xi | ||
Acknowledgements | xiii | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Geography: finding your way in the world - James Sidaway, Michael Bradshaw, Peter Daniels, Tim Hall and Denis Shaw | 1 | ||
Approach of the book | 11 | ||
Further reading | 12 | ||
Research and study guides, readers and further insights into human geography | 13 | ||
Useful websites | 14 | ||
Section 1 | 17 | ||
WORLDS IN THE PAST: CHANGING SCALES OF EXPERIENCE AND PAST WORLDS IN THE PRESENT - Edited by Denis Shaw | 17 | ||
1 Pre-capitalist worlds - Denis Shaw | 19 | ||
1.1 Making sense of the past | 22 | ||
1.2 A classification of human societies | 23 | ||
1.3 Hunting and gathering | 23 | ||
1.4 Human settlement and agriculture | 25 | ||
1.5 Cities and civilization | 28 | ||
1.6 Pre-capitalist societies | 34 | ||
1.7 The heritage of the past | 35 | ||
Learning outcomes | 35 | ||
Further reading | 36 | ||
Useful websites | 36 | ||
2 The rise and spread of capitalism - Terry Slater | 37 | ||
2.1 What is capitalism? | 38 | ||
2.2 Other perspectives, other stories | 39 | ||
2.3 The transition from feudalism to capitalism | 40 | ||
2.4 An expanding world | 42 | ||
2.5 Imperialism and racism | 47 | ||
2.6 Industrialization | 48 | ||
2.7 Urbanization | 54 | ||
2.8 Conclusion | 56 | ||
Learning outcomes | 58 | ||
Further reading | 58 | ||
Useful websites | 58 | ||
3 The making of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century world - Denis Shaw | 59 | ||
3.1 The changing capitalism of the early twentieth century | 60 | ||
3.2 Fordist capitalism | 62 | ||
3.3 Challenges to liberal capitalism: Nazism, communism | 64 | ||
3.4 The end of imperialism? | 68 | ||
3.5 Globalized capitalism | 70 | ||
3.6 The world in the early twenty-first century | 71 | ||
3.7 Conclusion | 75 | ||
Learning outcomes | 75 | ||
Further reading | 75 | ||
Useful websites | 76 | ||
Section 2 | 77 | ||
POPULATION, RESOURCES, FOOD, THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT - Edited by Michael Bradshaw | 77 | ||
4 Demographic transformations - Dimitris Ballas and Danny Dorling | 79 | ||
4.1 Introduction | 80 | ||
4.2 Geographies of population growth | 80 | ||
4.3 Geographies of changing birth and death rates and the demographic transition model | 85 | ||
4.4 Global population growth and punctuated equilibrium | 88 | ||
4.5 Migration and population change | 92 | ||
4.6 Geographies of mortality and life expectancy | 94 | ||
4.7 The demographic impact and geography of disease, natural disasters and wars | 96 | ||
4.8 The challenges of an ageing population | 102 | ||
4.9 Conclusion | 102 | ||
Learning outcomes | 105 | ||
Further reading | 105 | ||
Useful websites | 106 | ||
5 Resources, energy and development - Michael Bradshaw | 107 | ||
5.1 Natural resources | 108 | ||
5.2 Fuelling the planet | 113 | ||
5.3 Energy and development | 126 | ||
5.4 Conclusions: global energy dilemmas | 130 | ||
Learning outcomes | 132 | ||
Further reading | 132 | ||
Useful websites | 132 | ||
6 The environment and environmentalism - Rachel Howell and Jenny Pickerill | 133 | ||
6.1 What kind of world do you want? | 134 | ||
6.2 How we value the environment and perceive environmental issues | 134 | ||
6.3 Limits to growth and the challenge of capitalism | 139 | ||
6.4 The complexity of scale and responsibility | 142 | ||
6.5 Strategies for change | 146 | ||
6.6 What is missing from our focus on ‘the environment’? | 150 | ||
6.7 Environmentally sustainable futures | 153 | ||
Learning outcomes | 154 | ||
Further reading | 154 | ||
Useful websites | 155 | ||
7 Food security - Bill Pritchard | 156 | ||
7.1 Introduction | 157 | ||
7.2 Hunger in human history | 157 | ||
7.3 The present scale and geography of global hunger | 158 | ||
7.4 Defining food security | 160 | ||
7.5 Food availability | 163 | ||
7.6 Food access | 166 | ||
7.7 Conclusion | 168 | ||
Learning outcomes | 169 | ||
Further reading | 169 | ||
Useful websites | 169 | ||
8 Worlds apart? The changing geographies of global development - Marcus Power | 170 | ||
8.1 Development and the geography of the ‘Third World’ | 173 | ||
8.2 Conceptualizing development | 176 | ||
8.3 Development practice: the historical geography of development | 179 | ||
8.4 The ‘rising powers’ and the emergence of new ‘Southern’ donors | 182 | ||
8.5 Conclusions: geography, unevenness and inequality | 184 | ||
Learning outcomes | 185 | ||
Further reading | 185 | ||
Useful websites | 185 | ||
Section 3 | 187 | ||
9 Cities: urban worlds - Tim Hall and Heather Barrett | 189 | ||
9.1 Defining the urban world | 191 | ||
9.2 Multiple geographies of the urban world | 192 | ||
9.3 Contemporary urban issues | 200 | ||
9.4 Conclusion | 203 | ||
Learning outcomes | 204 | ||
Further reading | 204 | ||
Useful websites | 205 | ||
10 Urban segregation and social inequality - Phil Hubbard | 206 | ||
10.1 Poverty and urban segregation | 207 | ||
10.2 Urban segregation and cultural stereotypes | 213 | ||
10.3 Racial segregation in the city | 217 | ||
10.4 Gentrification: reclaiming the margins? | 220 | ||
10.5 Conclusion | 224 | ||
Learning outcomes | 224 | ||
Further reading | 224 | ||
11 Changing rural worlds – a global view - Warwick E. Murray | 226 | ||
11.1 Words and worlds: what is ‘rural’? | 228 | ||
11.2 Changing rural geographies | 229 | ||
11.3 Shifting rural worlds | 231 | ||
11.4 Conclusion | 244 | ||
Learning outcomes | 245 | ||
Further reading | 245 | ||
12 Social constructions of nature - James Evans | 246 | ||
12.1 Questioning nature | 247 | ||
12.2 Cultural constructions of nature | 250 | ||
12.3 Environmental myths | 253 | ||
12.4 Constructing human nature | 254 | ||
12.5 Nature and the media | 258 | ||
12.6 Conclusions | 259 | ||
Learning outcomes | 260 | ||
Further reading | 260 | ||
Useful websites | 260 | ||
13 Geography, culture and global change - Cheryl McEwan and Shari Daya | 261 | ||
13.1 What is culture? | 262 | ||
13.2 Towards a global culture? | 264 | ||
13.3 Reinventing local cultures? | 268 | ||
13.4 Multi- and hybrid cultures? | 271 | ||
13.5 Conclusion | 275 | ||
Learning outcomes | 276 | ||
Further reading | 276 | ||
Useful websites | 277 | ||
Section 4 | 279 | ||
PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION - Edited by Peter Daniels | 279 | ||
14 Geographies of the economy - Peter Daniels and Andrew Jones | 281 | ||
14.1 The changing nature of economic geography | 282 | ||
14.2 What is the economic problem? | 285 | ||
14.3 What are economies? | 286 | ||
14.4 A geographical approach to economic processes | 287 | ||
14.5 The rise of a global economy | 289 | ||
14.6 Global uneven development: the examples of trade and foreign direct investment | 291 | ||
14.7 Places and localities in an uneven global economy | 294 | ||
14.8 The rise of a new global digital economy? | 296 | ||
14.9 Global re-balancing: the eastward shift | 299 | ||
Learning outcomes | 300 | ||
Further reading | 300 | ||
Useful websites | 301 | ||
15 Geographies of food production - Damian Maye | 302 | ||
15.1 Thinking about food | 303 | ||
15.2 Geographies of food production and global supply | 304 | ||
15.3 Alternative geographies of food: concepts and case studies | 309 | ||
15.4 Food security: questions of scale, definition and interpretation | 314 | ||
15.5 Conclusion: the ethical foodscape | 317 | ||
Learning outcomes | 319 | ||
Further reading | 319 | ||
Useful websites | 319 | ||
16 The geographies of global production networks - Neil M. Coe | 321 | ||
16.1 Engaging with global production networks | 322 | ||
16.2 Production chains, production networks . . . | 323 | ||
16.3 Geographies of production networks: spatial divisions of labour | 326 | ||
16.4 The governance of production networks | 332 | ||
16.5 The institutional context of production networks | 337 | ||
16.6 Reshaping global production networks? | 338 | ||
16.7 Conclusion | 341 | ||
Learning outcomes | 342 | ||
Further reading | 342 | ||
Useful websites | 342 | ||
17 Service economies, spatial divisions of expertise and the second global shift - John R. Bryson | 343 | ||
17.1 Defining services | 344 | ||
17.2 Two common misconceptions about service economies | 347 | ||
17.3 The body, services and emotional labour | 351 | ||
17.4 Services and the spatial division of expertise | 353 | ||
17.5 The second global shift | 357 | ||
17.6 Conclusion | 363 | ||
Learning outcomes | 363 | ||
Further reading | 364 | ||
18 Geographies of money, finance and crisis - Manuel B. Aalbers and Jane Pollard | 365 | ||
18.1 Money and finance in geography | 366 | ||
18.2 The global financial crisis | 373 | ||
18.3 Conclusion: placing finance | 377 | ||
Learning outcomes | 378 | ||
Further reading | 378 | ||
Useful websites | 378 | ||
19 Consumption and its geographies - Ian Cook and Philip Crang | 379 | ||
19.1 Economic geographies of consumption | 380 | ||
19.2 Branding and marketing geography | 383 | ||
19.3 Local geographies of consumption | 388 | ||
19.4 Consumption and geographies of (dis)connection | 391 | ||
Learning outcomes | 396 | ||
Further reading | 396 | ||
Useful websites | 396 | ||
Section 5 | 397 | ||
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: GEOPOLITICS, TERRITORY, STATES, CITIZENSHIP AND GOVERNANCE - Edited by James Sidaway | 397 | ||
20 Geopolitical traditions - James Sidaway, Virginie Mamadouh and Chih Yuan Woon | 399 | ||
20.1 Introducing the idea of a geopolitical tradition | 400 | ||
20.2 The organic theory of the state | 401 | ||
20.3 Brazilian national integration | 401 | ||
20.4 Antarctic obsessions | 402 | ||
20.5 Heartland | 403 | ||
20.6 Nazi and Fascist geopolitics | 407 | ||
20.7 Cold War geopolitics and the logics of containment | 410 | ||
20.8 Cold War geopolitics in art and culture and ‘popular geopolitics’ | 413 | ||
20.9 New World Order, the Long War, Cold Peace and beyond | 415 | ||
20.10 Conclusions: shifting hegemonies? | 416 | ||
Learning outcomes | 419 | ||
Further reading | 419 | ||
21 Territory, space and society - David Storey | 421 | ||
21.1 Territory and territoriality | 422 | ||
21.2 Territoriality, race and class | 424 | ||
21.3 Geographies of security, policing and protest | 429 | ||
21.4 Territoriality, gender and sexuality | 431 | ||
21.5 Work, rest and play | 433 | ||
21.6 Conclusions | 436 | ||
Learning outcomes | 437 | ||
Further reading | 437 | ||
22 The place of the nation-state - James Sidaway and Carl Grundy-Warr | 439 | ||
22.1 Historical and geographical variability of states | 440 | ||
22.2 Nations as ‘imagined’ political communities | 440 | ||
22.3 Constructing boundaries: upwards and outwards | 448 | ||
22.4 Nation-states as symbolic systems | 450 | ||
22.5 Sovereigntyscapes: ‘shadows’, ‘borderlands’ and ‘transnationalisms’ | 452 | ||
22.6 Conclusions: the place of the nation-state? | 452 | ||
Learning outcomes | 454 | ||
Further reading | 455 | ||
23 The geographies of citizenship - Richard Yarwood | 456 | ||
23.1 Introduction: citizenship and place | 457 | ||
23.2 Bounded citizenship | 459 | ||
23.3 Beyond boundaries | 462 | ||
23.4 Local citizenship: activist citizens | 463 | ||
23.5 Activist citizens and transnational networks | 465 | ||
23.6 Citizenship and everyday places | 466 | ||
23.7 Conclusions | 467 | ||
Learning outcomes | 468 | ||
Further reading | 468 | ||
24 Global governance - Klaus Dodds and Chih Yuan Woon | 470 | ||
24.1 Conceptualizing governance | 471 | ||
24.2 Theorizing global governance | 473 | ||
24.3 Governing the Arctic Ocean | 479 | ||
24.4 Governing the South China Sea | 484 | ||
24.5 Conclusion | 487 | ||
Learning outcomes | 487 | ||
Further reading | 488 | ||
Useful websites | 489 | ||
Glossary | 491 | ||
Bibliography | 505 | ||
Index | 547 |