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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artefacts.
This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical geography. This book explores the War¿s impact in more unexpected theatres, blurring the boundary between home and fighting fronts, investigating the experiences of the war among civilians and often over-looked combatants. The book also critically examines the politics of hindsight in the post-war period, and offers an historical geographical account of how the First World War has been memorialised within `official¿ spaces as well as many of the `alternative spaces¿ of commemoration that are often overlooked and undervalued.
This book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over time. The book explores the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their spa
This book traces the success, failure, survival and abandonment of land settlement initiatives in a variety of locations, environments, and political scales, from the late C19th to the early C21st.
''Hurry'' is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility, speed, rhythm, and time-space compression, but also with infrastructures, technologies, practices, and emotions associated with the experience of the ''mobilizing modern''. ''Hurry'' is not simply speed. It may result in congestion, slowing-down, or inaction in the face of over-stimulus. Speeding-up is often competitive: faster traffic on better roads made it harder for pedestrians to cross, or for horse-drawn vehicles and cyclists to share the carriageway with motorized vehicles. Focusing on the cultural and material manifestations of ''hurry'', the book''s contributors analyse the complexities, tensions, and contradictions inherent in the impulse to higher rates of circulation in modernizing cities. The collection includes, but also goes beyond, accounts of new forms of mobility (bicycles, buses, underground trains) and infrastructure (street layouts and surfaces, business exchanges, and hotels) to show how modernity''s ''architectures of hurry'' have been experienced, represented, and practised since the mid nineteenth century. Ten case studies explore different expressions of ''hurry'' across cities and urban regions in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and substantial introductory and concluding chapters situate ''hurry'' in the wider context of modernity and mobility studies and reflect on the future of ''hurry'' in an ever-accelerating world. This diverse collection will be relevant to researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of planning, cultural and historical geography, urban history, and urban sociology.
This book provides rich and detailed insights into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geography. It explores the historical geography of anarchism by examining its expression in a series of distinct geographical contexts and its development over time. The book explores the changes that the anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their spa
This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical geography.
This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern western cities to explore the small-scale processes that have shaped these cities between c.1750-1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes.
This book traces the development of diverse British cultures of outer space, utilizing key geographical concepts such as landscape, place, and national identity.
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