Ireland's landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland from 16th century attempts to ""plant"" areas of Ireland with lo…
"Social life, conducted within the economic, political, and cultural boundaries, is fundamentally spatial. Adopting an explicitly geographical perspective, this volume demonstrates that labor unionism, no less than any other social practice, is spatial in nature as well. These e…
This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents in-depth empiric…
Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in Northern Argentina's Gran Chaco Region.
Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in Northern Argentina's Gran Chaco Region.
Most geographical studies of the?Third World?? or the Global South? focus their attention on the challenge of promoting development and explaining why the Third World is also the Poor World. This text extracts the Global South from the shadow of development and examines people?s…