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  • Film Landscapes of Global Youth

    Imagining Young Lives

    Edited by Stuart C. Aitken, Jacob Rowlett ...
    Series series Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
    This book explores the dynamic landscapes of global youth through spatially grounded chapters focused on film and media. It is a collection of incredible works concerning children and young people in, out, and through media as well as an examination of what is possible for the future of research within the intersections of geography, film theory, and children’s studies.It contains contributions ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Geography of Young People

    Morally Contested Spaces

    by Stuart C Aitken ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    The Geographies of Young People traces the changing scientific and societal notions of what it is to be a young person, and argues that there is a need to rethink how we view childhood spaces, child development and the politics of growing up.This book brings coherency to the growing field of children's geographies by arguing that although most of it does not prescribe solutions to the moral ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation

    Young People’s Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics

    by Stuart C. Aitken ...
    Change is inevitable, we are told. A job is lost, a couple falls in love, children leave home, an addict joins Narcotics Anonymous, two nations go to war, a family member's health deteriorates, a baby is born, a universal health care bill is voted into law. Life comprises events over which we have considerable, partial, or little or no control. The distance between the event and our daily lives ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Awkward Spaces of Fathering

    by Stuart C. Aitken ...
    Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent. This book seeks to explore the spaces and movements of men-as-fathers. Weaving together theories of space, sexuality and political identity with the stories of fathers from a range of sources, including popular culture, it discusses the way in which ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Approaches to Human Geography

    Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices

    Edited by Gill Valentine, Stuart C Aitken ...
    "The book covers some of the (traditionally) most obtuse and difficult-to-grasp philosophical ideas that have influenced geographers/geography. The fact that these are presented in an inclusive and accessible manner is a key strength. Many students have commented that the chapters they have read have encouraged them to read more in this field, which is fantastic from a lecturer′s perspective."- ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle

    A Geography of Film

    Edited by Stuart C. Aitken, Leo E. Zonn ...
    Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    A Student's Guide to Theory and Method

    by Stanley Barrett ...
    Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing recent changes and ongoing questions in the field.The second edition of Anthropology adds ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    by Bradley A. U. Levinson, Margaret Eisenhart, Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe, Yehudi Cohen0, R. W. Connel et al1, Emile Durkheim2, Donna Eder3, Julianna Flinn4, Signithia Fordham5, Clifford Geertz6, Jules Henry7, Dorothy Holland8, Margaret Mead9, Hugh Mehan0, Jan Nespor1, John Ogbu2, Sherry Ortner3, Deborah Reed-Danahay4, Laura Rival5, Margaret Sutton6, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez7, James B.Greenberg8, Howard S. Becker9, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath0, Raymond Williams1 ...
    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood

    Contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood

    Edited by Allison James, Alan Prout ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    When the first edition of this seminal work appeared in 1990, the sociology of childhood was only just beginning to emerge as a distinct sub-discipline. Drawing together strands of existing sociological writing about childhood and shaping them into a new paradigm, the original edition of this Routledge Classic offered a potent blend of ideas that informed, even inspired, many empirical studies of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Personal Life

    by Carol Smart ...
    For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the possibility of family life. In this exciting new book, she puts forward a new way of understanding families and relationships.Breaking with conventional ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Doing Research in Cultural Studies

    An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches

    by Paula A. Saukko ...
    Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
    `This book is a goldmine for students…it is brilliantly conceptualized and brilliantly executed. With this book cultural studies finally comes of age methodologically′ - Professor Norman K Denzin, Institute of Communications Research, University of IllinoisDoing Research in Cultural Studies outlines the key methodological approaches to the study of lived experience, texts and social contexts ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Affective Communities in World Politics

    Collective Emotions after Trauma

    by Emma Hutchison ...
    Series Book 140 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Emotions underpin how political communities are formed and function. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in times of trauma. The emotions associated with suffering caused by war, terrorism, natural disasters, famine and poverty can play a pivotal role in shaping communities and orientating their politics. This book investigates how 'affective communities' emerge after trauma. Drawing on several ... Read more

    $43.99 USD