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Author:   Audrey Kobayashi (Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada)
Publisher:   Elsevier Health Sciences
Imprint:   Elsevier / The Lancet
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780081022955

ISBN 10:   0081022956
Pages:   7242
Publication Date:   29 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The second edition contains approximately 800 articles which are structured around the following themes: Cultural: Topics include: cultural geography; cultural theory; cultural studies; postcolonial geographies; indigenous geographies; education; ethnicity; geography and religion; geography and the humanities; geography and the media (film, print, creative industries); popular culture; more-than-human representations Economic: Topics include: economic development; economic theories; spatial theories; urban economic geography; economic inequalities; housing; industrial geography; geographies of labor and job provision; transportation and communication; technology; world trade and trade policies; modernization and global economies; neoliberalism Historical: Topics include: Landscape development; Historical representations/re-presentations/more-than-representations; Histories of the discipline; Historical geographies of political/conflict/border-making events; Historical GIS; Institutional historical geographies; Political economies; Colonialism and imperialism Health: Topics include: health geography; medical geography; geographies of care; emotional geographies/geographies of mental health; therapeutic places; health care systems and institutions; healthcare policies; critical disability studies; epidemics and pandemics; international health aid; health and development; health and the built environment Methods: Topics include: Cartography; methodology/paradigms; digital technologies; quantitative methods; qualitative methods; ethics and methods; surveys; GIS; participatory research Nature/Society: Topics include: theories of nature; human/society and nature relations; climate change; natural disasters; energy issues; rural geographies; recreational geographies; non-human geographies; Anthropocene; environmental racism Political/Philosophy: Topics include: Geopolitics; human rights; neoliberalism; political theory; international security; borders and boundaries; electoral geographies; public policy; governance; peace and conflict; politics of religion; political migration; international relations; international conventions; electoral geography Population: Topics include: population growth and distribution; demographic change; digital technologies for population representation; migration; refugees; population and development; population and warfare/religion/governance; geographies of aging; globalization; racialization; gender Social: Topics include: social relations; difference; multiculturalism; race and racism; feminist geographies; radical geographies; relevance and social issues; urban social geography; social theories; housing and social services Urban: Topics include: What is urban?; urban historical geography; urban ecology; crime and policing; residential development, including segregation; urban models

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Audrey Kobayashi is a native of British Columbia, with a B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1978) from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD (1983) at UCLA, and PhD research study (Monbusho Scholarship) at the University of Kyoto (1980-1982); taught in Geography and East Asian Studies at McGill University (1983-1994), then Queen's University, initially as Director of the Institute of Women's Studies (1994-1999) and thereafter as Professor of Geography; appointed Queen's Research Chair in 2005; visiting professorships include the University of British Columbia, University College London, Canterbury University, New Zealand; Fulbright Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC (1994); elected positions include President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1999-2001), President of the Association of American Geographers (2010-2011); appointed to the Royal Society of Canada; awards include Lifetime Achievement Awards of the CAG, AAG, and Ethnic Geography Study Group, AAG Presidential Achievement Award, Aspen Institute Scholarship, several teaching awards; over 100 publications and numerous grants, with research focusing on migration, racism, employment equity and human rights, and the history and philosophy of geography. Dr Kobayashi has held many editorial responsibilities, including a number of books and special issues; ten years as human geography editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2002-2011); numerous editorial boards; and most recently human geography editor of the American Association of Geographers International Encyclopedia of Geography (Wiley-Blackwell 2017). She has contributed articles to the previous edition of HUGY, to the Sage Encyclopedia, and to numerous handbooks and companions

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