This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live.Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth.

A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World (Frontiers of Human Geography)

Politics & Social Sciences

Pickles, John

Social Sciences

Routledge

This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography, to show how maps and map-making have shaped the spaces in which we live. Going beyond the focus of traditional cartography, the book draws on examples of the use of maps from the sixteenth century to the present, including their role in projects of the national and colonial state, emergent capitalism and the planetary consciousness of the natural sciences. It also considers the use of maps for military purposes, maps that have coded modern conceptions of health, disease and social character, and maps of the transparent human body and the transparent earth.

A History of Spaces (Frontiers of Human Geography)

Examining transformations using a variety of perspectives Theorizing Transition provides both a rich empirical map of the dimensions of post-Communism and raises important theoretical issues about how we interpret these changes.

Theorizing Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

Business & Money

Smith, Adrian

Economics

Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

Environmental Transitions is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both under state socialism and during the period of transition to capitalism. The change in politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed an opportunity for a rapid environmental clean up, in an area once considered one of the most environmentally devastated regions on earth. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. It shows how environmental policy, economic change and popular support for environmental movements, have specific and changing geographies associated with them. Environmental Transitions addresses a large number of topics, including the historical geographical analysis of the environmental change, health impacts of environmental degradation, the role of environmental issues during the anti-communist revolutions, legislative reform and the effects of transition on environmental quality after 1989. Environmental Transitions contains detailed case studies from the region, which illustrate the complexity of environmental issues and their intimate relationship with political and economic realities. It gives theoretically informed ideas for understanding environmental change in the context of the political economy of state socialism and post-communist transformations, drawing on a wide body of literature from West, Central and Eastern Europe.

Pavlínek, Petr

A work of outstanding originality and importance, which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography, this book asks: What is human science? Is a truly human science of geography possible? What notions of spatiality adequately describe human spatial experience and behaviour? It sets out to answer these questions through a discussion of the nature of science in the human sciences, and, specifically, of the role of phenomenology in such inquiry. It criticises established understanding of phenomenology in these sciences, and demonstrates how they are integrally related to each other. The need for a reflective geography to accompany all empirical science is argued strongly. The discussion is organised into four parts: geography and traditional metaphysics; geography and phenomenology; phenomenology and the question of human science; and human science, worldhood and place. The author draws upon the works, of Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer and Kockelmans in particular.

Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences (Cambridge Human Geography)

Cambridge University Press

A work of outstanding originality and importance, which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography, this book asks: What is human science? Is a truly human science of geography possible? What notions of spatiality adequately describe human spatial experience and behaviour? It sets out to answer these questions through a discussion of the nature of science in the human sciences, and, specifically, of the role of phenomenology in such inquiry. It criticises established understanding of phenomenology in these sciences, and demonstrates how they are integrally related to each other. The need for a reflective geography to accompany all empirical science is argued strongly. The discussion is organised into four parts: geography and traditional metaphysics; geography and phenomenology; phenomenology and the question of human science; and human science, worldhood and place. The author draws upon the works, of Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer and Kockelmans in particular.

Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. <ul>
<li>Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography</li> <li>Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production</li> <li>Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries</li> <li>Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement</li> </ul>

Finance

Wiley/Blackwell

This book offers the first detailed account of the complex geographical dynamics currently restructuring China’s export-oriented industries. The topics covered are relevant to post-socialist geography, development studies, economics, economic sociology and international studies. It offers academics, international researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in developing countries and emerging economies. It is of particular interest to economic geographers and economic sociologists involved in the growing debates over local clusters, embeddedness, global sourcing and global production, and over the global value chain/global production network. It also appeals to national policymakers, since it directly addresses economic and industrial policy issues, such as industrial competitiveness, regional and national development, industrial and employment restructuring and trade regulation.

Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China (Springer Geography)

Zhu, Shengjun

He, Canfei

Springer

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A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World (Frontiers of Human Geography)

A History of Spaces (Frontiers of Human Geography)

Theorizing Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defense in Central and Eastern Europe

Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences (Cambridge Human Geography)

Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences (Cambridge Human Geography)

Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China (Springer Geography)