Contested Worlds : an introduction to human geography / edited by Martin Phillips

Part PART ONE: INTRODUCTION --
chapter 1 Contested Worlds: An Introduction --
chapter 2 Philosophical Arguments in Human Geography --
part PART TWO: GLOBAL WORLDS --
chapter 3 Unravelling the Web of Theory: Changing Geographical Perspectives on Development --
chapter 4 Global Crises? Issues in Population and the Environment --
chapter 5 Nation States and Super-States: The Geopolitics of the New World Order --
part PART THREE: REGIONAL WORLDS --
chapter 6 Inequalities at the Core: A Discussion of Regionality in the EU and UK --
chapter 7 Southeast Asian Development: Miracle or Mirage --
chapter 8 Post-Socialist East and Central Europe --
part PART FOUR: LOCAL WORLDS --
chapter 9 Places on the Margin: The Spatiality of Exclusion --
chapter 10 People in the Centre? The Contested Geographies of {u2018}Gentrification{u2019} --
chapter 11 People in a Marginal Periphery --
part PART FIVE: SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS --
chapter 12 Still Just Introducing the Contested Worlds of Human Geography.

Contested Worlds provides an introduction both to a multitude of geographical worlds which are currently being actively constructed and contested, and to a range of different perspectives on these worlds being adopted and contested by geographers. It is unique in its focus on the role of contestation in both the construction of geographical studies and in the geographies these studies seek to address. These issues are explored through a combination of general theoretical discussion and detailed international case studies. The areas discussed range in scale from the global, through the regional and national to the local worlds of the inner city, the neighbourhood and the village, with connections drawn between these scales. The book concludes that geography is being made in quite different ways. It asserts that geography is intrinsically a contested enterprise, and that this should be embraced as part of geographers becoming more critically involved in the making, and studying, of new contemporary human geographies."--Provided by publisher.