Cultural Geography

Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, internet porn, asylum seekers, dirty bombs and avian flu, we are bombarded with messages about emerging risks. Through new theories and new research findings, this book builds together a coherent argument, linking political events taking place a..

Illustrated with investigations undertaken by the author over the past 20 years into the work of artists, caravanning and tourism, photography and parish maps, this book devises new critical syntheses of the intertwining of space and life. The analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects are linked..

Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television shows, blogs and social media. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters..

Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television shows, blogs and social media. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters..

This fascinating volume examines the impact that rapid urbanization has had upon diets and food systems throughout Western Europe over the past two centuries. Bringing together studies from across the continent, it stresses the fundamental links between key changes in European social history and foo..

This fascinating volume examines the impact that rapid urbanization has had upon diets and food systems throughout Western Europe over the past two centuries. Bringing together studies from across the continent, it stresses the fundamental links between key changes in European social history and foo..

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the era of total war. The analysis ranges from military provisioning and systems of food rationing to civilians' survival strategies and ..

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the era of total war. The analysis ranges from military provisioning and systems of food rationing to civilians' survival strategies and ..

Drawing on a wealth of empirical research into mainstream and alternative North American food systems, this book discusses how sustainable, grass roots, local food systems offer a template for meaningful individual activism as a way to bring about change from the bottom up, while at the same time cr..

Drawing on a wealth of empirical research into mainstream and alternative North American food systems, this book discusses how sustainable, grass roots, local food systems offer a template for meaningful individual activism as a way to bring about change from the bottom up, while at the same time cr..

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. This book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools,..

Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for 'food..