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Geographies of Comfort

Author : Danny McNally
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317030605
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Comfort written by Danny McNally and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines ‘comfort’ in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes. Comfort and discomfort have assumed a central position in a range of works examining the relations between place and emotion, the senses, affect and materiality. This book argues that the emergence of this theme reflects how questions of comfort intersect humanistic, cultural-political and materialist registers of understanding the world. It highlights how geographies of comfort becomes a timely concern for Human Geography after its cultural, emotional and affective aspects. More specifically, comfort has become a vital theme for work on mobilities, home, environment and environmentalism, sociability in public space and the body. ‘Comfort’ is recognized as more than just a sensory experience through which we understand the world; its presence, absence and pursuit actively make and un-make the world. In light of this recognition, this book engages deeply with ‘comfort’ as both an analytic approach and an object of analysis. This book offers international and interdisciplinary perspectives that deploys the lens of comfort to make sense of the textures of everyday life in a variety of geographical contexts. It will appeal to those working in human geography, anthropology, feminist theory, cultural studies and sociology.

Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss

Author : Christoph Jedan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429792352
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss written by Christoph Jedan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of the concept of consolation for analysing spatio-temporal constellations. Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss brings together scholars from geography, philosophy, history, anthropology and religious studies. The chapters use spatial and conceptual mappings of grief and consolation to analyse a range of spaces and phenomena around grief, bereavement and remembrance, comfort and resilience, including battlefield memorials, crematoria, graveyards and natural burial sites in Europe. Authors shift the discussion beyond the Global North by including responses to traumatic grief in post-conflict African societies, as well as Australian Aboriginal traditions of ritual consolation. The book focuses on the relationship between space/place and consolation. In so doing, it offers a new lens for research on death, grief and bereavement. It offers new insights for students and researchers interrogating contemporary bereavement, as well as those interested in meaning-making, emerging socio-cultural practices and their role in personal and collective resilience.

Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity

Author : Laura Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315296918
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity written by Laura Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars to explore the geographies of making and craft. It traces the geographies of making practices from the body, to the workshop and studio, to the wider socio-cultural, economic, political, institutional and historical contexts. In doing so it considers how these geographies of making are in and of themselves part of the making of geographies. As such, contributions examine how making bodies and their intersections with matter come to shape subjects, create communities, evolve knowledge and make worlds. This book offers a forum to consider future directions for the field of geographies of making, craft and creativity. It will be of great interest to creative and cultural geographers, as well as those studying the arts, culture and sociology.

Literary Geography

Author : Sheila Hones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317695976
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Literary Geography written by Sheila Hones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such as the geohumanities, place writing and geopoetics. Emphasising the long tradition of work with literary texts in human geography, this volume: provides an overview of literary geography as an interdiscipline, which combines aims and methods from human geography and literary studies explains how and why literary geography differs from spatially-oriented critical approaches in literary studies reviews geographical work with literary texts from the late 19th century to the present day includes a glossary of key terms and concepts employed in contemporary literary geography. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about the history, current activity and future of work in the interdiscipline of literary geography.

Geographies of Campus Inequality

Author : Janel E. Benson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190848154
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Campus Inequality written by Janel E. Benson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sociological research on the experience of first-generation college students has expanded significantly in the last decade, providing broad-ranging data about the ways that these students enter college settings and their comparative progress toward graduation. However, we still know little about differences among first-gen students. In this book, we problematize the notion that there is only way to be a first generation student, and we consider the implications that different routes into and through college have for post-college mobility. Drawing on interviews with 64 college students at one highly selective campus and national longitudinal survey data from 28 campuses, we found that rather than developing a sense of belonging on campus at large, first-generation students were located in one of four different smaller multi-dimensional niches, what we refer to as campus geographies"--

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence

Author : Rasul A Mowatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000453294
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence written by Rasul A Mowatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure – from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries. This synthesis of narrative and theory resurrects neglected episodes of state violence and reveals how the built environment continues to enable it today within a range of cities throughout the world. Examples and discussions pull from colonial pasts and presents, of old strategic settlements turned major modern cities in the United States and elsewhere that link to the physical and legal structures concentrating a populace into neighbourhoods that prep them for a lifetime of conscripted and carceral service to the State.

Romantic Geography

Author : Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299296830
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Geography written by Yi-Fu Tuan and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature

The Atmospheric City

Author : Mikkel Bille
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000857468
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Atmospheric City written by Mikkel Bille and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork of everyday life in Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, it focuses on the atmospheric power of people, places, and phenomena. While the predominant focus of current urban planning tends to rest on economic growth, sustainability, or offering housing, transport, and activities to an increasing number of city residents, this book offers a different take, based on recent discussions in the social sciences about how cities feel. It calls attention to the mundane ways in which urban dwellers adapt and adopt their surroundings. It argues that atmospheric cities are characterised by a fundamental porosity that affects how people relate to places. This highlights why some places are sought after while others are avoided. Through concrete examples of people being in and moving through the city, the book shows how people attune and are attuned by designed urban spaces, often at the margins of attention, when they find comfort in the familiar and seek out the unexpected. This book is aimed at researchers, postgraduates, and practitioners interested in urban design and how people make sense of the feelings it evokes. It will be of interest to those in the fields of urban studies, urban design, planning, architecture urban geography, cultural geography, cultural studies and anthropology.

The Geographies of Young People

Author : Stuart C Aitken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134593074
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Geographies of Young People written by Stuart C Aitken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up. This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solutions to the moral assault against young people, it nonetheless offers appropriate insights into difference and diversity, and how young people are constructed. Other books in the series: Culture/Place/Health (forthcoming) Seduction of Place (forthcoming) Celtic Geographies (forthcoming) Timespace Bodies Mind and Body Spaces Children's Geographies Leisure/Tourism Geographies Thinking Space Geopolitical Traditions Embodied Geographies Animal Spaces, Beastly Places Closet Space Clubbing De-centering Sexualities Entanglements of Power.

The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie’s Centre

Author : Caterina Frisone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000954889
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie’s Centre written by Caterina Frisone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With an unconventional architecture as required by the design brief, combined with Maggie’s psychological support programme, this special health facility allows extraordinary therapeutic effects in people, to the point that one can speak of therapeutic power. After tracing the story of the Maggie’s centre, the book reveals its fundamentals: Maggie’s Therapeutikos (the-mind-as-important-as-the-body), the Architectural Brief and the ‘Client-Architect-Users’ Triad. It continues by unfolding Maggie’s synergy-that between people and place-which increases users’ psychological flexibility helping them tolerate what was intolerable before. Although comfort and atmospheres are paramount, they are not enough to define the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre. Only by looking at neuroscience that can give us scientific explanations of empathy, feelings and emotions and only considering space neither neutral nor empty, but full of forces that envelop people in an embodied experience, can we explain what generates wellbeing in a Maggie’s centre. The book concludes by critically evaluating the Maggie’s centre as a model to be applied to other healthcare facilities and to architecture in general. It is essential reading for any student or professional working on therapeutic environments.

Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures

Author : Banu Görkariksel
Publisher : Gender, Feminism, and Geograph
ISBN 13 : 9781949199888
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures written by Banu Görkariksel and published by Gender, Feminism, and Geograph. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.

Critical Geographies

Author : Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Publisher : Praxis ePress
ISBN 13 : 0889555664
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (895 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Geographies by : Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

Download or read book Critical Geographies written by Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro and published by Praxis ePress. This book was released on 2008 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

Author : Ben Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317046951
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography by : Ben Anderson

Download or read book Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography written by Ben Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place of everyday life. Drawing together a range of innovative contributions from leading writers, this is the first book to provide an extensive and in-depth overview of non-representational theories and human geography. The work addresses the core themes of this still-developing field, demonstrates the implications of non-representational theories for many aspects of human geographic thought and practice, and highlights areas of emergent critical debate. The collection is structured around four thematic sections - Life, Representation, Ethics and Politics - which explore the varied relations between non-representational theories and contemporary human geography.

Geographies of Writing

Author : Nedra Reynolds
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809387514
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Writing written by Nedra Reynolds and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century technological innovations have revolutionized the way we experience space, causing an increased sense of fragmentation, danger, and placelessness. In Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, Nedra Reynolds addresses these problems in the context of higher education, arguing that theories of writing and rhetoric must engage the metaphorical implications of place without ignoring materiality. Geographies of Writing makes three closely related contributions: one theoretical, to reimagine composing as spatial, material, and visual; one political, to understand the sociospatial construction of difference; and one pedagogical, to teach writing as a set of spatial practices. Aided by seven maps and illustrations that reinforce the book’s visual rhetoric, Geographies of Writing shows how composition tasks and electronic space function as conduits for navigating reality.

Geographies of Home

Author : Loida Maritza Perez
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140253718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Home written by Loida Maritza Perez and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leaving the college she'd attended to escape her religiously conservative parents, Iliana, a first-generation Dominican-American woman, returns home to Brooklyn to find that her family is falling apart: one sister is careening toward mental collapse, another sister is living in a decrepit building with her abusive husband and three children, and a third sister has simply disappeared. In this dislocating urban environment Iliana reluctantly confronts the anger and desperation that seem to seep through every crack of her family's small house, and experiences all the contradictions, superstitions, joys, and pains that come from a life caught between two cultures. In this magnificent debut novel, filled with graceful prose and searing detail, Loida Maritza Pérez offers a penetrating portrait of the American immigrant experience as she explores the true meanings of identity, family--and home.

Modernities

Author : Peter J. Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745668747
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Modernities written by Peter J. Taylor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: today's consumer modernity preceded by the industrial modernity of the nineteenth century which was itself preceded by mercantile modernity.

Handbook on the Geographies of Energy

Author : Barry D. Solomon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785365622
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Geographies of Energy written by Barry D. Solomon and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive Handbook captures a range of expertise and perspectives on the changing geographies and landscapes of energy production, distribution, and use. Combining established and emerging scholarship from across disciplines, the expert contributions provide a broad overview of research frontiers for the changing geographies of energy worldwide. Interdisciplinary in nature and broad in scope, it serves to answer a range of questions and provide the reader with conceptual and methodological foundations.