The Dictionary of Human Geography

Technology-drivenintensive agriculture has hardly gone away, in spite of increased incidences of biological ‘blowback’ from indu ...

had been believed (Goldhagen, 1996), with ‘ordinary citizens’’ rather than committed party members carrying out much of the kill ...

2000). Periodizing risks a second tendency: this is to code these stages within a narrative of progress or development, against ...

the entire discipline. It now has a considerable institutional presence: the journal Gender, Place and Culturehas been published ...

(5) Feminist geographers tend to emphasize the specificity ofprocessesin particular places. This has been tied to a critique of ...

day-to-day and generational reproduction of workers and the development and continuation of ‘traditional’ gender relations in ca ...

been learnt, and a defining characteristic of feminist animal rights analyses (as compared to those of ‘mainstream’ animal right ...

fertility Reproductive performance, or the number of live births. Along withmortality andmigration, it is one of the three compo ...

which a subordinate (vassal)heldrather than owned landed property, the ‘fief’ (Latinfeo- dum, feudum, hence feudalism) from a lo ...

the term can be applied to early patterns of landholding and husbandry that entwined groups of cultivators into communities of m ...

rather than more dynamic, relational and con- tested forms of evidence, many fieldwork prac- titioners developed a more critical ...

mode of storytelling and site-seeing, film can be a medium for travelling across and juxta- posing different worlds, and rupturi ...

The cinema itself is a public space, which some have argued was particularly important for women and immigrants in the early-twe ...

towards the securitization of retail financial products, whereby lenders aggregate the loans made to low-risk customers and sell ...

users will move to a local government admin- istration that optimizes their tax and services preferences, trading off the costs ...

out, the (re-)emergence of flexibility as a dom- inant regime of accumulation in the late 1970s and 1980s was associated with in ...

vis-a`-visnation-states(Dicken, 2003). Other increasing and accelerating flows – trans- national flows of information on theinte ...

concern in several academic disciplines because of its centrality to human life for both physical and social sustenance. As a sp ...

sanguine on these sorts of initiatives, which have considerable overlap with standard-based regulation. Mutersbaugh (2002) has n ...

Los Angeles, that adopted Fordist principles at an early stage (see Christopherson and Storper, 1986); and also a gendereddivisi ...