Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography is a blue-chip, comprehensive series covering each major subdiscipline of human geography in detail. Edited and contributed by the disciplines leading authorities each book provides the most up to date and authoritative syntheses available in its field. The overviews provided in each Companion will be an indispensable introduction to the field for students of all levels, while the cutting-edge, critical direction will engage students, teachers, and practitioners alike.
Published
A Companion to Economic Geography
Edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes
A Companion to Political Geography
Edited by John Agnew, Katharyne Mitchell, and Gerard Toal (Gearoid O Tuathail)
A Companion to Cultural Geography
Edited by James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein
A Companion to Tourism
Edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams
A Companion to Feminist Geography
Edited by Lise Nelson and Joni Seager
A Companion to Environmental Geography
Edited by Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman, and Bruce Rhoads
A Companion to Health and Medical Geography
Edited by Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, and Graham Moon
A Companion to Social Geography
Edited by Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Mary E. Thomas, Ruth Panelli, and Paul Cloke
Also available:
The New Blackwell Companion to the City
Edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
Edited by George Ritzer
The Handbook of Geographic Information Science
Edited by John Wilson and Stewart Fotheringham
This edition first published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A companion to social geography / edited by Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.... [et al.].
p. cm. (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography)
Companion v. to: Social geography / Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-8977-4 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Human geography. I. Del Casino, Vincent J. II. Del Casino, Vincent J., Social Geography.
GF41.C5735 2011
304.2dc22
2010041343
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ePDF: 978-1-4443-9519-8
epub: 978-1-4443-9520-4
oBook: 978-1-4443-9521-1
Illustrations
Figures
10.1 Mental map by Kevin
18.1 On top of Lembert Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, United States
19.1 Volvox
19.2 Waltzing Volvox . Top view: superimposed images taken 4 seconds apart, graded in intensity
19.3 Volvox flow fields. Side view of a colony swimming against a cover slip, with fluid streamlines
19.4 Volvox flow fields. Top view of a colony swimming against a cover slip, with fluid streamlines
21.1 The title page of Laycocks 1875 paper in the Journal of Mental Science
21.2 Extract from a Blacklock letter of December 8, 1855, as reproduced in Laycocks 1875 paper in the Journal of Mental Science
21.3 Letter from Blacklock to Leathart, November 18, 1853, side
21.4 Letter from Blacklock to Leathart, November 6, 1855, side
Table
23.1 Households with home access to the internet by government office region (UK)
Boxes
13.1 Key characteristics of liberatory participatory action research
13.2 Some negative power effects of participatory approaches
21.1 The case of William Blacklock
21.2 Ancestral times and spaces
21.3 Half-mad with love
28.1 The famous cases
28.2 Chronology of the International Criminal Court
Contributors
Gavin Brown is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is an urban social and cultural geographer specializing in the study of geographies of sexualities; social movement activism; education and youth policy; and urban responses to climate change and peak oil. He has published his work in Environment & Planning A ; Emotion, Space and Society , and Social and Cultural Geography amongst other journals. He is co-editor of Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics (2007).
Kath Browne is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. Her work spans and intersects the areas of geographies, sexualities, genders, methodologies, and social engagements. In 2007 Kath was awarded the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers recognizing young researchers who have shown great potential. Kath has written over 40 publications across a range of disciplines using diverse formats, and is the co-author of Queer Spiritual Spaces: Sexuality and Sacred Spaces and co-editor of Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics , and Queer Methods and Methodologies: Queer Theory and Social Science Research. She continues to work on the CommunityUniversity Research project, Count Me In Too .
Emilie Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Carleton University. Her doctoral research examined the materiality of stories and the ways in which stories order geographies of race, nature, political mobilization, and resource extraction in the Central Canadian Arctic. She is currently investigating the cultural-historical and political-economic dimensions of mineral exploration and mine development in northern Canada.