Introduction to Human Geography (Custom Edition), 1st edition

Published by Pearson Learning Solutions (16 December 2016) © 2017

  • Gordon Waitt
  • Pauline McGuirk University of Newcastle
  • Kate Hartig University of Newcastle
  • Kevin Dunn University of New South Wales
  • Ian Burnley University of New South Wales

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ISBN-13: 9781488618048
Introduction to Human Geography (Custom Edition eBook)
Published 2016

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This custom edition is published for Western Sydney University.

This accessible and comprehensive introduction to Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand human and cultural geography, represents the key contemporary themes and practices in the multidisciplinary branch of human geography: globalisation, inequality and difference.

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1: Introduction: Geographical Themes and Explanations
  • 1. Setting the Scene: Introducing Geographical Themes
  • 2. The Dynamism of Geographical Explanation
  • 3. The Contemporary Dynamics of Geographical Explanations
  • Part 2: Inherited and Contemporary Geographies
  • 4. Uneven Global Economic Activity: The Emergence and Transformations of Australia and Aoteara/New Zealand's Economies
  • 5. Indigenous Invasion Geographies of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
  • 6. Population Expansion
  • 7. Processes of Urbanisation
  • Part 3: Geographies of Globalisation and Heteropatriachy
  • 8. Economic Globalisation
  • 9. Transforming Cities
  • 10. Geographies of Hetereopatriachy: Gender Sexuality and Space
  • 11. Cultural Globalisation: Diversity and Convergence
  • 12. Looking Within and Beyond
  • Index

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