The Dictionary of Human Geography

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L laboratory A laboratory is a site of experi- mentation. Not simply a physical space where a certain sort of scientific researc ...

each other. As such, labour markets are neces- sarily geographical (Martin, 2000b). These labour markets are often very local, i ...

drive for labour market flexibility has fuelled the growth of the working poor in many loca- tions, and new forms of politicalre ...

the ‘exchange-value’ of a commodity, and des- ignated ‘labour’ as use-value and ‘labour- power’ – the actual commodity transacte ...

Soviet Union during the 1930s, where T.D. Lysenko used Lamarckism to justify his ideas about agricultural improvement and judged ...

and clashes between agrarian and hunter–gath- ering societies are all examples. The geograph- iesoftheseoftenviolentreworkings(P ...

Here, landscape was largely equated with Western visual traditions of landscape painting and gardening. In drawing upon and exte ...

performance and perception is further devel- oped in recent work on landscape from inter- pretive archaeology and performance st ...

rooted in certain languages (geolinguistics). In many such studies (but not all), the geography oflanguageinsuchtermsisaformofhi ...

Drawing from Edward Said’s understanding of orientalism, Mark T. Berger (1995) argues that ideas about Latin America in the USA ...

many other immigrant groups involved in pro- ducing the cultural landscapes of the Americas. Since the 1990s, a number of Latin ...

the geographies of law and legal struggles is still undeveloped and somewhat ambiguous. Press- ing questions include: What analy ...

baseline, maritime zones and the deep-seabed, high-sea freedoms and navigation, and marine pollution and environmental protectio ...

The second approach focuses upon the nat- ure of leisure activities. This approach points to the significance of leisure both ec ...

life expectancy The additional number of years of life that individuals who reach a cer- tain age can anticipate. It is calculat ...

the brink of exceeding the Earth’scarrying capacityand precipitating widespread social and ecologicalcrisis. Although the report ...

Literature in the sense of imaginative writ- ing has attracted the analytical attention of cultural geographers over the past 30 ...

human geographers would be bemused at the traces of spatial science to be discerned in Moretti’s (1998, 2005) spatialized appreh ...