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53 results in Human geography

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Turning up the heat
  • Urban political ecology for a climate emergency
  • Edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    27 February 2026
  • Urban political ecology (UPE) has been conceptually influential and empirically robust, however the field has mainly focused on the way cities are metabolically linked and networked with resource flows and ecological processes. Currently, in the face of climate change challenges, scholars working on UPE are taking the field in new directions: from expanding the field of enquiry to include more than human actors, to shifting the geographical focus to overlooked peripheries, the Global South or the suburbs. Although cities are framed by the New Urban Agenda, adopted by the UN Habitat 2016, as central actors, the very ontological status of cities is also questioned, with important implications for UPE. We argue that in order to answer these emerging questions we need renewed, qualified, conceptually robust and empirically substantiated research that does not come from already privileged vintage points or geographical locations. This book launches an inquiry into a UPE better informed by situated knowledges; an embodied UPE, that puts equal attention to the role of more than -human ontologies and processes of capital accumulation. The book aims to extend UPE analysis to new places and perspectives. As discussions regarding the environment are now dominated by policy makers, planners and politicians, it is more crucial than ever, we argue to maintain a critical engagement with mainstream policy and academic debates.

Turning Water into a Commodity
  • Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent
  • Christiane Tristl
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    06 February 2026
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Pay-as-you-go water dispensers are used in many areas in the Global South: this book examines the increasing influence of private corporations in the supply of water kiosks within Kenya. It shows how remote regions are being opened to market-based development, while excluding local approaches and actors.

Neoliberalism and Urban Regeneration
  • London's Communities Finding a Voice and Fighting Back
  • Roger Green, Keith Popple
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 February 2026
    Print publication:
    14 August 2025
  • This book shows how urban community campaigns across London have challenged exclusionary regeneration projects. It tells the stories of groups that have taken radical democratic action to resist top-down change and make their voices heard in local decision-making.

The machinic city
  • Media, performance and participation
  • Marcos P. Dias
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    04 February 2026
  • The machinic city investigates the role of performance art to help us reflect on contemporary urban living, as human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban fabric. This is illustrated by several case studies on performance art interventions from artists such as Blast Theory, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Rimini Protokoll, which draw from a rich history of avant-garde art movements to create spaces for deliberation and reflection on urban life and to speculate on its future. As cities are increasingly controlled by autonomous processes mediated by technical machines, the performative potential of the aesthetic machine is analysed, as it assembles with media, Capitalist, human and urban machines. The aesthetic machine of performance art in urban space is analysed through its different – design, city and technology actants. This unveils the unpredictable nature and emerging potential of performance art as it unfolds in the machinic city, which consists of assemblages of efficient and not-so-efficient machines. The machinic city pays particular attention to participation, describing how digitally mediated performance art interventions in urban space foreground different modes of subjectivity emerging from human and machine hybrids. This highlights the importance of dissensus as a constitutive factor of urban life and as a means of countering machinist determinism in present and future conceptualisations of city life.

Welcoming Cities
  • How Newcomers Shape Urban Policy Making
  • Jacqueline Broadhead
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    30 January 2026
    Print publication:
    24 September 2025
  • This book outlines a comprehensive framework for the inclusion of newcomers locally, drawing on learning and examples from twelve UK cities and international partners as well as innovative research findings.

Bricking It
  • The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy
  • Charlie Winstanley
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    29 January 2026
    Print publication:
    23 September 2025
  • Key reading for housing researchers and policy makers, this book explains the root causes of the UK's housing crisis and proposes useful ways forward.

Carbon Colonialism
  • How rich countries export climate breakdown
  • Laurie Parsons
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2026
  • Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change. World leaders are queuing up to proclaim their commitment to tackling the climate crisis, pointing to data that show the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is warming at a record rate. Arctic sea ice is reaching record low levels. Climate-linked poverty and precarity are rapidly increasing. Why, then, are the green achievements of the rich world not matched by the reality on the ground? As this book argues, the complexity of our globalised economy allows our worst environmental impacts to happen out of sight and out of mind. Rich nations’ environmental footprints are now primarily generated overseas, where limited regulation makes it increasingly easy to conceal. The result is a system of carbon colonialism, in which emissions, waste and environmental degradation are exported from rich countries to poor ones as the price of economic growth.

Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice
  • Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann
  • Published by:
    Manchester University Press
    Published online:
    20 December 2025
  • It is increasingly clear that, alongside the spectacular forms of justice activism, the actually existing just city results from different everyday practices of performative politics that produce transformative trajectories and alternative realities in response to particular injustices in situated contexts. The massive diffusion of urban gardening practices (including allotments, community gardens, guerrilla gardening and the multiple, inventive forms of gardening the city) deserve special attention as experiential learning and in-becoming responses to spatial politics, able to articulate different forms of power and resistance to the current state of unequal distribution of benefits and burdens in the urban space. While advancing their socio-environmental claims, urban gardeners make evident that the physical disposition of living beings and non-living things can both determine and perpetuate injustices or create justice spaces.In so doing, urban gardeners question the inequality-biased structuring and functioning of social formations (most notably urban deprivation, lack of public decision and engagement, and marginalisation processes); and conversely create (or allow the creation of) spaces of justice in contemporary cities.This book presents a selection of contributions investigating the possibility and capability of urban gardeners to effectively tackle spatial injustice; and it offers the readers sound, theoretically grounded reflections on the topic. Building upon on-the-field experiences in European cities, it presents a wide range of engaged scholarly researches that investigate whether, how and to what extent urban gardening is able to contrast inequalities and disparities in living conditions.

Transport Truths
  • Planning Methods and Ethics for Global Futures
  • Greg P. Griffin
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    20 May 2025
  • Ideal for researchers and practitioners looking for fresh approaches to transport problems, this book combines cutting-edge qualitative and qualitative knowledge to inform transport futures. It uses engaging case studies based in The Gambia and the US to show how and why a transdisciplinary approach can result in better planning decisions.

Land, Labour, and Agrarian Change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh
  • Fraser Sugden
  • Published online:
    16 July 2025
    Print publication:
    04 September 2025
  • This book offers a historically grounded and multi-scalar analysis of agrarian change in Nepal's far-eastern Tarai. It shows how this region has since the 1700s evolved from a forested frontier home to relatively autonomous Adivasi (indigenous) cultivators, to a feudal economy grounded in landlord-tenant relations, which has persisted alongside a rapidly expanding industrial and commercial sector. The book explores the changing land ownership patterns and distribution of surplus, the flow of labour between agriculture and industry, and more complex interactions with global capitalism. The book thus offers unique insights into both the reproduction and transformations of class, ethnic and labour relations in Nepal during a period of rapid political transformation.

Enduring Austerity
  • The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State
  • Julie MacLeavy
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    16 April 2025
    Print publication:
    19 November 2024
  • This book reflects on the spatially and socially uneven impacts of austerity and considers its future impacts on individuals, families and areas. In doing so, it offers a new critical analysis of the uneven geographies created by austerity in the post-welfare age.

Radical Food Geographies
  • Power, Knowledge and Resistance
  • Edited by Colleen Hammelman, Charles Z. Levkoe, Kristin Reynolds
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2025
    Print publication:
    20 August 2024
  • This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems challenges across places, spaces, and scales. With global case studies, it explores the interconnections between the social and ecological dynamics of food systems, exploring efforts to co-construct more equitable and sustainable food systems for all.

Midlife Geographies
  • Changing Lifecourses across Generations, Spaces and Time
  • Aija Lulle
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 September 2024
  • As the 'sandwich' generation, people in midlife often have significant work and caring responsibilities, yet they are the subject of relatively little research. This short, accessible book redresses the balance in offering a geographical approach to how people claim space in midlife while analysing the influences of gender, class and location.

Researching Justice
  • Engaging with Questions and Spaces of (In)Justice through Social Research
  • Edited by Agatha Herman, Joshua Inwood
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    27 December 2024
    Print publication:
    31 July 2024
  • Understanding justice, for many, begins with questions of injustice. Giving insights into real life research practices for scholars at all levels, this book aids our understanding of how to employ and live justice through our work and daily lives.

Sustainable Human Settlements within the Global Urban Agenda
  • Formulating and Implementing SDG 11
  • David Simon
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023
  • The UN's urban sustainability goal number eleven (11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda. David Simon explains the anatomy and dynamics of SDG 11, and critically assess how it is being used and understood in different local, regional and national contexts.

    Supported by case studies throughout, Simon considers how SDG 11 interacts with other Sustainability Development Goals and how competing indicators, other external constraints, as well as lack of political will can present tough challenges to implementation. He provides a balanced and dispassionate analysis, highlighting problems and limitations alongside positive applications. A key aspect of the unfolding story of the SDGs is how they play out in practice. Although some of the connections and complementarities were designed, others are shown to have emerged by default. Drawing on lessons learnt so far, Simon considers how realistic sustainability goals are for cities and human settlements worldwide, and asks how different will cities be by the end of the SDG's 15-year lifespan in 2030?

    Written for students, policy-makers and practitioners, the book provides an authoritative assessment of one of the most important and integrative SDGs.

Global Health
  • Geographical Connections
  • Anthony C. Gatrell
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    07 September 2023
  • Drawing on the latest research in health geography and a wide range of case studies from across the world, this comprehensive and authoritative study offers students an unrivalled analysis of the geographical connections of global health and the challenges they present for governance and treatment. Topics considered include health inequalities across countries, the governance of health by nation-states and international organizations, the incidence and spread of infectious disease, the links between air and water quality and health outcomes, and the health impacts of climate change. The book considers how these different issues play out in a range of geographical settings across the world, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries, which are disproportionally affected. The book demonstrates the indispensable role of geographical processes operating across borders in understanding health worldwide and is an excellent resource for courses on health geography, global health, public health and development studies.

The Handbook of Labour Unions
  • Edited by Gregor Gall
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    01 May 2024
  • Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they remain among the world's largest representative organizations and continue to play a significant role as vehicles for democracy, sustainable development and social justice.

    This handbook assembles an array of experts to critically engage with the debates and discussions about the role and purpose of unions and the many means by which they seek to attain them. The book provides insights into how unions can meet the challenges of structural changes in the labour market, including technological progress, the green agenda and the digital platform economy, and how they can better represent the needs of their members, in particular migrant, domestic and informal workers.

    The book is a valuable resource for industrial relations, labour economics, sociology of work, employment and labour law, history of trade unionism, working patterns and practices, workplace culture and workers' rights.

The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities
  • Edited by Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    23 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 August 2023
  • Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the relationship between the urban and its cultures. It expands our understanding of the concept of urban cultural infrastructure and highlights the foundational role of culture to the materiality and sociality of urban life and the governance of cities.

    The book begins with a theoretical overview of the cultural and infrastructural turns in urban studies scholarship. It then explores definitions of cultural infrastructure and its 'hard' and 'soft' dimensions before critically considering the vulnerabilities generated in the cultural sector by the Covid-19 pandemic. Chapters are organised in four thematic sections focusing on aspects of producing, performing, consuming and collecting culture, which feature detailed case studies from 17 cities across the global North and South.

    This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of urban studies, but also to policy-makers planning and creating cultural infrastructures as well as those working in cultural institutions and creative industries.

The Practice of Collective Escape
  • Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects
  • Helen Traill
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    23 January 2024
    Print publication:
    29 September 2023
  • Drawing on ethnographic research in urban growing projects in Glasgow, this book explores community dynamics and asks who benefits from such projects. A timely consideration of localism and community empowerment, the book sheds light on key issues of urban land use, the right to the city and the value of social connection.

New York
  • Jill S. Gross, Hank V. Savitch
  • Published by:
    Agenda Publishing
    Published online:
    20 January 2024
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023
  • New York became the world's first megacity in the 1930s. Since then it has remained the largest city in North America but, globally, it has been surpassed in size by the younger cities of Asia. Nevertheless its metropolitan area is home to 20 million people and it continues to be America's premier city.

    The authors examine the New York metropolis through the lens of a series of twenty-first century pressures related to demography, economic growth, urban development, governance, immigration, leadership and globalization. How New York's institutions and policies have either risen to meet these challenges, stagnated in the face of them, or simply failed to resolve them is the focus of the book. In particular, the authors examine the municipality of New York City and how it navigates the increasingly complex battles with higher levels of government over rights to the city and resource needs.

    The book examines the shifting tides of corporate centered development, particularly the vibrant financial sector, and how it has leveraged its powerful geopolitical position in the global economy to continue to grow. The question of governance is explored along with the growing reliance on public-private partnerships to manage megacity problems. Mayoral control and leadership are fundamental to meeting the needs of the residential population along with the demands of business. With over three million immigrants, New York is the most diverse city in North America, but it is also among the most segregated. The authors investigate the positive and negative outcomes that such diversity brings.

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