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An Introduction to Human Geography 5th edn

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
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