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The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue • Routledge eBooks (2013)

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203371183

Sports Geography

John Bale • Routledge eBooks (2002)

'Space' and 'place' are concepts central to both geography and sport. Places, for example, are the means of identifying most sports teams, while sport both affects, and is affected by, the physical environment and landscape.In this fully re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203478677

Poststructuralist Geographies

Marcus A. Doel • Edinburgh University Press eBooks (1999)

Poststructuralist Geographies is the first attempt to draw out and develop the inherent quality that is at the heart of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives. With expertise in both critical human geography and post-war continental ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474467797

Imaginative geographies

Derek Gregory • Progress in Human Geography (1995)

Reanalyzing the work of Eward Said the essay illuminates the complexity and fractured formation of Orientalism as a constellation of power, knowledge and geography. In doing so the author reconstructs Said's geographical imagination and its...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/030913259501900402

The geography of gentrification

Loretta Lees • Progress in Human Geography (2011)

This paper revisits the ‘geography of gentrification’ thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism. I argue that given the ‘mega-gentrification’ affecting many cities in the Global South gentrification researchers need to adopt a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511412998

The Geography of Equity Analysis

Christopher J. Malloy • The Journal of Finance (2005)

ABSTRACT I provide evidence that geographically proximate analysts are more accurate than other analysts. Stock returns immediately surrounding forecast revisions suggest that local analysts impact prices more than other analysts. These eff...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.00744.x

Entangled Geographies

• The MIT Press eBooks (2011)

Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War. The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and p...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262515788.001.0001

Emotional Geographies of Teaching

Andy Hargreaves • Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education (2001)

This paper introduces a new concept in educational research and social science: that of emotional geographies. Emotional geographies describe the patterns of closeness and distance in human interactions that shape the emotions we experience...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/0161-4681.00142

Geographic Profiling

D. Kim Rossmo • CRC Press eBooks (1999)

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420048780

Modern Geographical Thought

Richard Peet (1998)

List of Figures. Preface. 1. Introduction: Geography, Philosophy and Social Theory. 2. Existentialism, Phenomenology and Humanistic Geography. 3. Radical Geography, Marxism, and Marxist Geography. 4. Structuralism and Structural Marxist Geo...

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Cloud geographies

Louise Amoore • Progress in Human Geography (2016)

The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamb...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516662147

Between Geography and History

Katherine Clarke (2000)

Abstract The late Hellenistic period witnessed the rise of an imperial power whose dominion extended across almost the whole known world. The Roman empire radically affected geographical conceptions, evoking new ways of describing the earth...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199240036.001.0001

Geographies of Disability

Brendan James Gleeson • Taylor & Francis eBooks (1988)

This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disabil...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203266182