The Dictionary of Human Geography

become engaged incultural politicsinvolv- ing the very framing of the key terms of the debate (acceptablerisk, waste, race and e ...

design fields, Yi-Fu Tuan’s (1974)Topophilia: a study of environmental perceptions, attitudes and values articulated a humanisti ...

the notions ofraceinherent in decisions that make dumping in some sites – rural reserva- tions, poor urban areas, immigrant comm ...

Graeco-Christian and Hebraic theologies, wherein creation for human purpose can lead to a legitimization of human domination ove ...

pandemic (ad 1918–19), are extreme examples from the many tens of thousands of historically recorded disease outbreaks to which ...

privileged experience (Hartsock, 1983; Harding, 2004; see alsosituated knowledge). Such concerns have made for lively debate wit ...

Human geography’s exemplars here areaffect andnon-representational theory, two areas concerned with the possibilities of ‘presub ...

for social goods and resources. Others insist on the need to attain equality of outcome or results. The parameters of social equ ...

resources on their machines. A similar project, supported by the BBC, was used in 2006 to model climate change. Other developmen ...

been a boon to forms of social constructionist and relational theorizing in the discipline. The strong political impulse behind ...

action would bring pleasure to a great many people. Thus, a deontological theorist might encourage me to give preference to the ...

of moral convictions – meaning that moral systems are always systems that come from somewhere, that somewhere often being a priv ...

ethnic cleansing, with its emphasis on borders and separation, becomes a means to consoli- date a political geography of securit ...

ethnicity.Many use the term only to refer to minority groups, assuming that people in the majority are ‘normal’ while everyone e ...

crudest form, this argument implies a rigid instrumentalismwherein thestate, viewed as a tool of the capitalist class, enacts co ...

this work because immigration, housing, employment equity and other policies directly affect the way in which individuals experi ...

most closely associated with the discipline of sociocultural anthropology, and withpar- ticipant observation and long-term, in- ...

the interactions which constitute [social] space, a local articulation within a wider whole’ (Massey, 1994b, p. 4). Places are a ...

wariness of spoken communication, he follows the impetus of CA in foregrounding ‘talk’ as social action, within which members un ...

has more recently been turned into the global ‘north’ (cf.south). Each one of these transi- tions has been freighted with its ow ...