Tag: Geographies

Free Download Digital Geographies-Theory, Space, and Communities: A Machine-Generated Literature Review
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819747333 | 1054 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, showcases how digital technologies are having deep transformative impacts on geographies and temporalities of social, political, economic, and personal lives. They are altering perceptions and physicality of space and time. They are giving birth to digital communities and societies where distance remains of little significance. Virtual spaces and ICT have disrupted state sovereignties, often liquidating their physical national boundaries. The rise of the digital economy shows that new important raw materials for the future are information rather than coal, oil, and minerals. Digitalisation is also leading to several contradictory processes of democratisation, rising welfare of the citizens, as well as surveillance, peripheralisation and exclusion. States are taking pride in digitalising their services to the citizens, with massive consequences on the welfare of those facing digital divides.

Free Download Ines M. Miyares, Christopher A. Airriess, "Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America"
English | 2006 | pages: 426 | ISBN: 0742537722 | PDF | 6,1 mb
Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception. From the migration of the ancestors of Native Americans to the increasingly diverse immigrant populations arriving today, it is impossible to separate ethnicity from an understanding of the United States as a country and "Americans" as a people. At an ever-increasing pace, America today is experiencing watershed changes in its social, cultural, and ethnic/racial geographies.

Free Download Practising Cultural Geographies: Essays in Honour of Rana P. B. Singh by Ravi S. Singh
English | EPUB | 2022 | 599 Pages | ISBN : 9811664137 | 145.5 MB
This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.

Free Download Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, "The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification"
English | ISBN: 029574927X | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Confronting the role of foodie culture in gentrification

Free Download Introducing Human Geographies 4th Edition
by Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367211769 | 1081 Pages | PDF | 75 MB

Free Download Social Geographies of Educational Change By Michael Fullan, Carol Rolheiser, Blair Mascall, Karen Edge (auth.), F. Hernandez, I. F. Goodson (eds.)
2005 | 173 Pages | ISBN: 1402024940 | PDF | 2 MB
Social Geographies, as spatial location, is a factor relevant to understanding the variety of people’s interpretations and appropriations of educational innovations and changes. Their location in the social space also influences their response to change. In the field of educational change, social space means for example, skin colour, gender distribution of teachers in one school, children’s self-cultural representations or parents’ religious attitudes.By using the notion of Social Geographies in the context of educational change, the authors address the following questions: How initiatives in a classroom or department are influenced by the surrounding context of the school, the district or the nation; How innovation spreads or diffuses from one school to another;How and whether reforms can be scaled up from a few schools to a whole system;How seemingly standardised reforms affect schools differently depending on where they are located;How schools influence one another;How the identities of, and interrelationships among, schools are affected by technology, principles of market competition and choice, and other initiatives. This volume is relevant to educationalists, policy-makers, teachers, and students interested in a more complex approach to understand and intervene in educational change processes.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence-Driven Geographies: Revolutionizing Urban Studies by Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghaddam , Huhua Cao
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 455 Pages | ISBN : 9819751152 | 23.2 MB
This groundbreaking book delves deep into the history of AI, the major techniques and algorithms of machine learning and deep learning, and the critical role of data sources and processing in these disciplines. It covers a range of AI applications in human geography, including population distribution, land use, environmental risk assessment, and socioeconomic analysis. In urban planning, the book explores AI-driven approaches to smart cities, transportation management, urban growth prediction, and sustainable development, among others.

Free Download Jennifer Y. Pomeroy, "Society, Space, and Social Justice: Geographies of Intersectionality"
English | ISBN: 1498594808 | 2019 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1180 KB + 4 MB
Society, Space, and Social Justice addresses multiple contextual intersectionalities, highlighting the underlying processes and causes contributing to the genesis and regeneration of emergent and extant spaces of (in)justice. Employing quantitative and qualitative techniques underpinned by elucidatory theoretical frameworks, the contributors to this collection investigate intersections of class, disability, gender, race, and "the other" within sociocultural and political-economic structures in varied geographic scales in Brazil, India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the United States. This book’s thematic diversity-the environment and outdoors, employment and labor, gendered/othered violence, health and disease, housing, infrastructure, and urban design-gives it interdisciplinary appeal. This timely collection examines and unpacks the complex mechanisms by which social justice can be perverted, thwarted, or achieved.

Free Download Catherine Nash, "Genetic Geographies: The Trouble with Ancestry Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 0816690731 | 2015 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 491 KB
What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of sexual and national, as well as racial, difference.

Free Download Duane J. Corpis, "Crossing the Boundaries of Belief: Geographies of Religious Conversion in Southern Germany, 1648-1800"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813935520 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 0.7 mb
In early modern Germany, religious conversion was a profoundly social and political phenomenon rather than purely an act of private conscience. Because social norms and legal requirements demanded that every subject declare membership in one of the state-sanctioned Christian churches, the act of religious conversion regularly tested the geographical and political boundaries separating Catholics and Protestants. In a period when church and state cooperated to impose religious conformity, regulate confessional difference, and promote moral and social order, the choice to convert was seen as a disruptive act of disobedience. Investigating the tensions inherent in the creation of religious communities and the fashioning of religious identities in Germany after the Thirty Years’ War, Duane Corpis examines the complex social interactions, political implications, and cultural meanings of conversion in this moment of German history.