Cultural Geography

How children experience, negotiate and connect with - or resist - their physical and social environment impacts their health and wellbeing. This book brings together different accounts and experiences of children's health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspecti..

The historic phenomenon of pilgrimage is experiencing a resurgence around the world. Yet pilgrimage as a mode of tourism has been little investigated. This book adds considerably to our knowledge by focusing on one specific pilgrimage voyage - that to the Holy Land during times of security crisis th..

The historic phenomenon of pilgrimage is experiencing a resurgence around the world. Yet pilgrimage as a mode of tourism has been little investigated. This book adds considerably to our knowledge by focusing on one specific pilgrimage voyage - that to the Holy Land during times of security crisis th..

In the course of economic and cultural globalization, most large cities have been transformed via increasing commercialisation of urban space, and consequent intense processes of theming. Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book examines links between economic, social, and psychological f..

In terms of the city, when one thinks of quarters, class and ethnicity, as well as sex and other behaviours spring to mind. These essays examine the role of urban quarters in terms of structural, political, economic, social, cultural and spatial change...

City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of this high profile contemporary phenomenon. As such, it is set to become the standard reference work - a comprehensive and integrated pri..

The American Geographical Society (AGS) is the oldest professional geographical organization in the United States (established in 1851), and was the pre-eminent such society in the 19th century. This project explores how geographical knowledge and practices were understood, took shape, and made publ..

The American Geographical Society (AGS) is the oldest professional geographical organization in the United States (established in 1851), and was the pre-eminent such society in the 19th century. This project explores how geographical knowledge and practices were understood, took shape, and made publ..

This book sets out to explore the questions posed by the reality of living in a ’haunted home’ and attends to the ways in which households in England and Wales understand their experience of haunting in relation to ideas of subjectivity, gender, materiality, memory, knowledge and belief. It explores..

This book sets out to explore the questions posed by the reality of living in a ’haunted home’ and attends to the ways in which households in England and Wales understand their experience of haunting in relation to ideas of subjectivity, gender, materiality, memory, knowledge and belief. It explores..

This book conflates disciplinary contributions to the inquiry of nation-state border to offer an empirically rich and compelling study on the social stratification and change in the Turkish/Middle Eastern context, drawing back to the late nineteenth century Ottoman Era...

This book aims at drawing the reader’s attention to the sound of the urban environment. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it examines a heterogeneous selection of experimentations from the domains of music, art and architecture. Significant case studies of pieces of music, public art works and sc..