Product Description: This timely book provides a much needed spatial intervention into existing philosophical debates about ethics. It offers an innovative argument for the reconfiguration of critical spatial theory around ‘ethical’ modes of action, such as care, generosity, hospitality, and responsibility...read more

Product Description: This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It develops novel theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing on four overlapping processes: claiming publics; personalising publics; mediating publics; and becoming public...read more

Product Description: How we deal with strangers is at once a question of profound ethical significance and of practical and political necessity. In the current revival of interest in the concept of hospitality, the reception of philosophical themes associated with Levinas, Derrida and others is increasingly taking place in a context of worldly demands arising out of new global mobilities and institutionalized practices aimed at controlling them...read more

Product Description: Geographies of Globalization explores the geographies of proximity and distance that shape globalization, and considers the politics of responsibility that it brings. It examines globalization in terms of: o economy - patterns of trade, work and finance o politics - political institutions and the role of political campaigns o technology - how technologies are networking the world o migration - the dynamics of mobility...read more

Product Description: 'This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical perspective...read more

Product Description: Redefines the contemporary interactions between media, culture, and the democratic process. The media and popular culture are often identified as bearing primary responsibility for the decline of active citizenship and the decay of democratic institutions...read more