Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography: (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series)

With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers. Carefully curated by two internationally recognised scholars in the field, entries are written by both distinguished and up and coming researchers and encompass the key ideas, concepts, and theories in human geography. The Encyclopedia examines both long standing subdisciplinary fields in human geography like economic geography and urban geography, but also more recent ones such as emotional geographies and indigenous geographies, making a point about the move to plural geographies. The selection of entries reflects both the influence of established developments, such as the ‘cultural turn’, and new advances including the growing interest in Big Data, the more committed focus on decolonization of the discipline, and interest in research on the Anthropocene. This will be fundamental reading for human geography students, particularly undergraduates looking for a succinct and accessible resource for current thinking in the field. Key Features: 78 concise entries from diverse international contributors Encapsulates the state of the art of research in the field Highlights new trends Explores the ways in which human geography is starting to decolonize

Table of Contents:
Contents: 00 Introduction Loretta Lees and David Demeritt 01 Activism Elise Lecomte 02 Actor Network Theory Kristian Ruming 03 Affect Ben Anderson 04 Animal Geographies Guillem Rubio-Ramon and Krithika Srinivasan 05 Anthropocene Noel Castree 06 Art Friederike Landau-Donnelly 07 Artificial Intelligence Di Zhu and Yingjie Hu 08 Assemblages Pooya Ghoddousi 09 Big Data Francisco Rowe 10 Bodies Carl Bonner-Thompson 11 Bordering Matthew Tillotson 12 Class Julie MacLeavy 13 Colonialism Satish Kumar 14 Comparative Geographies Julie Ren 15 Crime Elizabeth Brown 16 Critical Geographies Lawrence Berg 17 Cultural Geographies Andrew Lapworth 18 Development geographies Andrew McGregor 19 Diaspora Michael Rios 20 Digital Geographies Andrew Dwyer 21 Disabilities Rob Imrie 22 Displacement Emil Pull 23 Economic geographies Felicia Liu 24 Education Ellen Bishop 25 Emotional Katy Bennett and Jay Emery 26 Energy James Angel 27 Environmental geographies Mohammed Rafi Arefin 28 Ethics Mara Ferreri 29 Ethnography Sharda Rozena 30 Feminist geographies Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Miriam Gay-Antaki 31 Food geographies Benjamin Coles 32 Gender Anahid Shirkhodaee and Margaret Walton-Roberts 33 Geographic informations systems Victoria Houlden 34 Geopolitics Gavin Brown 35 Health geographies Niamh Shortt 36 Historical geographies Carry van Lieshout and Benjamin Newman 37 Humanistic geographies Casey D. Allen 38 Identity Christabel Devadoss and Doug Allen 39 Indigenous geographies Christine Añonuevo et al. 40 Infrastructure Kathryn Furlong 41 Labour geographies Debolina Majumder 42 Landscape Martin Phillips 43 Legal geographies Caroline Griffith, Sarah Klosterkamp, Alida Cantor and Austin Kocher 44 Marxist geographies Jamie Gough 45 Migration geographies Joris Schapendonk 46 Military geographies Rachel Woodward and Alice Cree 47 Mobilities Cristina Temenos 48 Music Michelle Duffy 49 Nation-state Máiréad Dunne and Barbara Crossouard 50 Nature Franklin Ginn 51 Neoliberalism Arnaud Brennetot 52 Place Tone Huse 53 Political ecology Elia Apostolopoulou 54 Politics Rhys Jones 55 Population geographies Elin Charles-Edwards 56 Post-colonial geographies Eduardo Ascensão 57 Poverty Mark Fransham 58 Power Liza Griffin 59 Psychoanalytical geographies Lucas Pohl 60 Public space Jason Luger 61 Race Archie Davies and Nadia Mosquera Muriel 62 Radical geographies Joe Penny 63 Realism (critical) Andy Pratt 64 Relational geographies Martin Jones 65 Religion Justin Tse and Lily Kong 66 Representation/al Amy Barron and Joe Blakey 67 Risk George Warren 68 Rural geographies Niamh McHugh 69 Scale Andrew Kythreotis and Andrew E.G. Jonas 70 Segregation Tia Ndu 71 Sexualities Peter Jones 72 Social geographies Michele Lobo 73 Space Peter Merriman 74Time Clara Rivas-Alonso 75 Transport geographies Debbie Hopkins and Anna Plyushteva 76 Uneven development Hamish Kallin 77 Urban geograpghies Mark Davidson 78 Young people Lorraine van Blerk

About the Author :
Edited by Loretta Lees, Initiative on Cities, Boston University, US and David Demeritt, Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK

Review :
‘Challenging the norm of multi-volume, door-stopper encyclopedias and expensive domain-specific handbooks, this Concise Encyclopedia provides a welcome, reasonably priced and student-accessible introduction to human geography. Diverse in seniority and gender, the authors’ compact, engaging and informed essays cover key concepts and sub-fields, equipping newcomers with the background to engage with contemporary human geography scholarship.’ ‘This state-of-the-art Encyclopedia provides a collection of fresh, illuminating and inspirational clarification of fundamental concepts in human geography. It sets the new standard for the study of human geography as a spatial science embracing engaged pluralism and committed to impactful knowledge production. An essential reference highly recommended to all of those interested in human-environment interaction and its dynamic changes over time and across space.’