Land of Life

Land of Life
Author: Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:

Neighborhoods in Transition

Neighborhoods in Transition
Author: Brian J. Godfrey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988
Genre: Community organization
ISBN:

Ethnic and nonconformist communities, despite their frequent proximity, seldom are analyzed as interlocking elements of the metropolitan core. In this comparative study of San Francisco neighborhoods, Brian Godfrey contrasts the formation of ethnic enclaves by European, Asian, Black, and Hispanic groups with the emergence of Bohemian, counter-cultural, and gay communities. He focuses especially closely on Latin American immigration into the Mission District and gentrification in the Haight-Ashbury. To explain the historical geography of such inner-city neighborhoods, the author proposes alternate sequences of community evolution, based on the interplay of social class and subcultural forces. He shows how both ethnic and nontraditional minority communities tend to form initially in declining central neighborhoods, with their divergent successional processes reflecting characteristic differences in social mobility and cultural cohesion.

Economic Poisoning

Economic Poisoning
Author: Adam M. Romero
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520381556

Arsenic and old waste -- Commercializing chemical warfare -- Manufacturing petrotoxicty -- Public-private partnerships -- From oil well to farm.

Handbook of Cultural Geography

Handbook of Cultural Geography
Author: Kay Anderson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761969259

"The editors of this genuinely brilliant book seem to dare the reader to argue with them from the first page... I would encourage everyone interested in cultural geography, or in the cultural turn within a whole set of human geogrphies, to do likewise." --ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS "A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities. Throbbing with commitment, and un-disciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be." --Professor Allan Pred Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley Ten sections, with a detailed editorial introduction, the Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive statement of the relation between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook is a textured overview that presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography, while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines.

Urban Ecologies on the Edge

Urban Ecologies on the Edge
Author: Kristian Karlo Saguin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0520382641

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people—powerful and marginalized—interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge.

Green Wars

Green Wars
Author: Megan Ybarra
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520295188

"Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case studies how "saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra brings Guatemala's 36-year civil war into the perspective of a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism to show how conservation works to make Q'eqchi's into immigrants on their own territory. Even as the post-war state calls on them to claim rights as individual citizens, Q'eqchi's seek survival as a people. Her analysis reveals that Q'eqchi's both appeal to the nation-state and engage in relationships of mutual recognition with other Indigenous peoples -- and the land itself -- in their calls for a material decolonization."--Provided by publisher.

Agrarian Dreams

Agrarian Dreams
Author: Julie Guthman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2004-08-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0520937732

In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refuting popular portrayals of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor in opposition to "industrial" agriculture, Guthman explains how organic farming has replicated what it set out to oppose.

The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge

The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge
Author: John A Agnew
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2011-03-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1412910811

Broad in scope and edited by two massive names in geography, this is a critical exploration of how the field has emerged and fared over the course of its modern institutionalization.