Country Visions is a collection of essays exploring different ways of knowing rurality; of understanding the countryside. The essays suggest that we must go beyond cultural constructions of rural idyll and their accompanying political, cultural and theoretical orthodoxies, which risk both 'purification' of transgressive presences and practices, and ignorance of significant agency and performance. Country Visions re-views the countryside as heterogeneous, dynamic and often dystopic. It emphasises that rural areas are not just known differently, they are also performed differently.

Country Visions: Knowing The Rural World

Politics & Social Sciences

Cloke, Paul

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition. Now in full color and with sixteen new chapters, discussion points and glossary definitions in the margin, it is even more accessible.

Introducing Human Geographies

Goodwin, Mark

Crang, Philip

History

Hodder Education Publishers

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider 'damage and displacement', 'recovery and renewal' and 'the city in transition'. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery.

The Post-Earthquake City (Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change)

Pawson, Eric

Conradson, David

Perkins, Harvey C.

Routledge

Geographies of Postsecularity (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics)

An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning (Routledge Revivals)

This book, first published in 1983, provided the first thorough and informative introduction to the theory, practice and politics of rural settlement planning. It surveys the conceptual and ideological leanings of those who have developed, implemented and revised rural settlement practice, and gives detailed analysis of planning documentation to assess the extent to which policies have been successfully implemented. Paul Cloke assesses the shortfalls of rural planning and resource management and suggests methods by which a sustainable rural future might be attained. This reissue provides essential background and a comprehensive handbook for those with an interest in rural settlement planning.

The problems of providing essential services in a constrained economic climate, and of conserving the rural environment whilst protecting rural people, are of immediate importance. This book, first published in 1979, was the first major piece of published research on the topic of rural settlement planning. It examines in detail the history and theory behind key settlement policies, and their practical application within the British rural planning system. Using Warwickshire and Devon as two very different case studies, Paul Cloke measures the outcome of settlement planning and discusses the wider implications of the ‘concentration-dispersal’ debate. This reissue will provide essential background for students of rural and social geography, and rural sociology and economics.

Key Settlements in Rural Areas (Routledge Revivals)

Introducing Human Geographies is the leading guide to human geography for undergraduate students, explaining new thinking on essential topics and discussing exciting developments in the field. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and coverage is extended with new sections devoted to biogeographies, cartographies, mobilities, non-representational geographies, population geographies, public geographies and securities. Presented in three parts with 60 contributions written by expert international researchers, this text addresses the central ideas through which human geographers understand and shape their subject. Part I: Foundations engages students with key ideas that define human geography’s subject matter and approaches, through critical analyses of dualisms such as local-global, society-space and human-nonhuman. Part II: Themes explores human geography’s main sub-disciplines, with sections devoted to biogeographies, cartographies, cultural geographies, development geographies, economic geographies, environmental geographies, historical geographies, political geographies, population geographies, social geographies, urban and rural geographies. Finally, Part III: Horizons assesses the latest research in innovative areas, from mobilities and securities to non-representational geographies. This comprehensive, stimulating and cutting edge introduction to the field is richly illustrated throughout with full colour figures, maps and photos. These are available to download on the companion website, located at www.routledge.com/9781444135350.

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Country Visions: Knowing The Rural World

Introducing Human Geographies

The Post-Earthquake City (Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change)

Geographies of Postsecularity (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics)

An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning (Routledge Revivals)

An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning (Routledge Revivals)

An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning (Routledge Revivals)

Key Settlements in Rural Areas (Routledge Revivals)

Key Settlements in Rural Areas (Routledge Revivals)

Introducing Human Geographies