Academic Articles & Research Papers

Geographies of Resistance

Until very recently questions of resistance seemed straightforward, addressed in terms of an analysis of power. This book demonstrates how new, radical geographies of resistance emerge, develop and operate. Radical cultural politics, exemp...

The Geographical Cycle

GEOGRAPHICAL CYCLE.continental coast, whichever it proves to be, along the Pacific to the meridian of Peter island.Magnetic observations, deep-sea soundings, and dredgings would be taken throughout the three seasons; but, looking to the unc...

Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore divers...

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

Geography of Innovation

The geography of innovation refers to the spatial clustering of innovative activity and the advantages conferred by co-location. Economic actors realize gains when located to places with abundant resources, well-developed social networks an...

Geography's Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge

In this paper the possibilities and hazards of a critical perspective on the history of geographical knowledge are considered. The focus is on the relations between modern geography and European colonialism during the ‘age of empire’ (circa...

Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.

Acknowledgements. 1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction. 2. Women and Everyday Spaces. 3. No Place for Women?. 4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique. 5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. 6. Spatial ...

Geographies of Exclusion

Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the dominant factor in the creation of social and s...

Encyclopedia of geography

With more than 1,200 entries, Encyclopedia of Geography reflects how the growth of geography has propelled a demand for intermediaries between the abstract language of academia and the ordinary language of everyday life. The six volumes of ...

Promoting Geography for Sustainability

The discipline of geography encompasses both natural and social sciences and has the natural advantage of enabling the study of sustainability from a transdisciplinary perspective. There are great opportunities for geographers to participat...

Urban Geography

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of econ...

Pre-Behavioralism in Political Science

Political behavior research has delivered less than the “behavioral revolution” seemed originally to promise. A survey of recent work suggests that the reason is not its epistemological premises (which are accepted here) or its methodology,...

Political Science

Set opposite to all the various forms of so-called psychical interpretation, the people have a dead political science. When it is necessary to touch up this barren formalism with a glow of humanity, an injection of metaphysics is used. Ther...

The Political Sciences Routledge Library Editions: Political Science vol 46

Social science is a social activity as well as a method of discovery. The researchers’ values and politics colour their work and so do their choices of scientific method. This book is about both – the technical effects of values and the pol...

Education in Political Science

Preface 1. Introduction Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens and Klaus Dieter Wolf Part 1: Comparative Education Politics 2. Veto-Points and the Politics of Introducing School Vouchers in the US and Sweden Michael B. Klitgaard 3. Towards Converg...

Multi-level governance readiness and regional policy capacity in supporting Indonesia’s new capital development

IntroductionThe establishment of Nusantara Capital City (IKN) as Indonesia’s new capital requires effective multi-level governance in which supporting provinces play a decisive role in ensuring administrative, infrastructural, and economic ...

Courses and distances, wedges and difficulties of doctors’ formers in science and mathematics education

The problem put under focus stems from cultivation of doctoral actions, reactions and attitudes of doctors already practicing in other areas and that resolve to migrate to the areas of Science and Math Education to take-on collaboration-tra...

Advances in Experimental Political Science

Experimental political science has changed. In two short decades, it evolved from an emergent method to an accepted method to a primary method. The challenge now is to ensure that experimentalists design sound studies and implement them in ...

Judgment and Measurement in Political Science

Standard methodological advice in political science warns against the distortion of measurement decisions by judgmental elements. Judgment is subjective, common wisdom asserts, it produces opaque, biased, and unreliable data. This article, ...

Political Science

The idea that politics is, or can be, the subject of science is an ancient one that reaches back to Aristotle. Early modern expressions of the idea can be found in Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as in Enlightenment thinkers from Hume to th...