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This book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of children's dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field.

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated.

Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs, this volume is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches, the Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues.

This handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century. The book reflects on its blind spots, points out avenues for future research, and brings together a greater plurality of regions, actors, and approaches than other publications on the subject.

The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation.

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary.

This book summarizes the works of 39 authors who collectively wrote 14 peer reviewed papers in areas of leadership, curriculum, funding, social and racial tension, technology and digital access, self, family and community, and health and safety.

Focusing on the city of Istanbul in Turkey, this book examines the city's informal urban settlements, the need for affordable shared housing and what changes have taken place during the age of globalisation and urban development.

This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co- edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years.

This book provides cutting-edge insights on contemporary geopolitical toponymic policy and practice in post-Soviet countries. It examines the political features of place naming as a reflection of contemporary political discourse.

Critically assessing meanings of the term 'public', this book situates the emergence and expansion of 'public services' within market-based forms of production and consumption.

Presenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe.

This book addresses a relatively novel but highly debated topic within urban studies and geography, and presents many results, techniques, methods, and reflections on urban scaling and allometry. It is especially timely as it is becoming increasingly urgent to understand the pro and cons of different city sizes and plan policies accordingly.

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership of Civil Society Organisations at the local, national, and global levels. Of interest to researchers across the fields of global development, business studies, peacebuilding, international relations, and civil society.

Written by Japan-based scholars, the chapters in this book take a critical approach to understanding the impact of geo-politics on this strategically critical region.

This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political struggles in post-colonial Africa. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the environmental humanities and environmental studies.

This collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples, places and practices in the Circumpolar North from colonial times to our post-modern era. This volume brings together fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts, colonial/imperial descriptions, collaborative work of non-Indigenous and Indigenous researchers.

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world.

Using "risk" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book looks at how governments, societies, and individuals have perceived, experienced, dealt with and interpreted the pandemic, and the transformations it has brought across East Asia.

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyses the experiences of African migrants in Thailand. Addressing an important gap in migration research, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of migration and mobility studies, African Studies, and Asian Studies.

The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India.

This book offers an East-West comparative analysis of mediatised terrorism.

This timely new handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context. Bringing together an international line up of expert contributors, this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of African politics, post-conflict reconstruction, security and peace and conflict studies.