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Tables of Contents for Explorations in Human Geography
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
ix
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
Encountering Places, Peoples and Environments: Introducing Human Geography
1
23
Laurence Murphy
Richard Le Heron
Introduction
2
1
Personal Geographies---Understanding Where We Are Placed
3
3
Constructing Geographical Knowledges of Context
6
2
Local Worlds, Global Worlds: Inserting New Zealand (and Ourselves) into the World
8
3
Environmental politics
9
1
Globalising sport
10
1
Food connections
10
1
Historical Transformations
11
1
How Geographers Have Looked at Changing Worlds
11
5
Mapping Worlds
16
2
The Rationale for this Book
18
6
Section 1 (Re)producing the economic
24
94
Making Markets
27
26
Richard Le Heron
Encountering Markets: Tourists' Experiences of Place
28
5
Markets and the Making of an Uneven World
33
9
Colonisation---beginnings of markets as we know them
33
3
An age of national markets
36
1
Government and market spaces
36
6
Is there a Global Economy?
42
3
Reaching across borders---internationalisation and globalisation in auto production
42
1
The changing geography of microelectronics production
43
2
Globalising Forces in the Asia--Pacific Region
45
2
Market-makers: Who are They and Where are They Taking Us?
47
4
Companies and their behaviours
48
2
Governments, governance and markets
50
1
Cultural producers of markets
51
1
Conclusions
51
2
Exploiting Technologies
53
32
Gordon Winder
Encountering Technology
54
3
Times, Places, Institutions and Agents of Innovation
57
10
Going Flexible: Adopting Flexible Machines
67
4
Outcomes: restructuring the North American auto industry
68
3
Limits to Flexible Machine Use
71
5
Mechanising the Home
76
4
Managing Technological Risks
80
3
A Politics of Technological Choice?
83
2
Fabricating Space
85
33
Pip Forer
Introduction
86
1
`---alities' and Spatiality
87
3
How Do We Think About and Model Space?
90
2
What Do We Do with Space? Spatial Ideas and Spatial Models
92
2
Technology, Ideas and Action
94
8
More on how space, concepts and process mix: space, process and regularities
98
4
`Where Shall We Go Today?': Space-warping Technologies
102
8
Redefining the water: the new (and old) spatial technologies
105
5
The Brave New World of GIT: Playing with Place, Speculating with Space
110
5
Refabricating Space
115
3
Section 2 Mapping the cultural
118
86
Culturing Territory
121
30
Richard Bedford
Introduction
122
1
An argument
123
2
Defining Culture
125
1
Seeing Places for the First Time
126
7
Experiencing Cultural Imperialism
133
4
Geographies of Cultural Diversity and Exclusion
137
8
Back to Rural `Roots'?
145
6
Gendering Place
151
22
Robyn Longhurst
Personal Geographies
152
1
Examining Gender and the (Sexed) Body
153
1
Feminist Geography---A Thumbnail Sketch
154
3
Domestic Places---Designing Homes
157
2
Public Places
159
4
Public monuments
160
2
Landscapes of work
162
1
Geographies of Fear---Risky Places
163
2
Spaces of Representation
165
1
Sites of Resistance
166
5
Conceptualising new housing designs
166
2
The Women's Refuge Movement
168
1
Women's Achievement Trail
169
2
Conclusions
171
2
Contesting Development
173
31
Sara Kindon
Introduction
174
2
Constructing and Deconstructing Development
176
16
The expansion of imperialism
176
1
The effects of colonialism
177
2
The rise of nationalism
179
1
Decolonisation and the new division of space
180
2
The invention of development
182
1
Neocolonialism, internationalisation and the practice of development
183
9
Changing and Contesting Development
192
8
Globalisation and development in `crisis'
192
1
Postdevelopmentalism, regionalisation and regionalism
193
3
Antidevelopmentalism, transnationalism and resistance
196
4
Being Willing to Risk an Open Future?
200
1
Reflections
201
3
Section 3 Living the environment
204
82
Transforming Landscapes
207
30
Michael Roche
Introduction
208
2
Global Processes and Local Landscape Change in New Zealand
210
3
World-systems theory
210
1
World-systems and New Zealand
211
2
The Tucker-Richards Hypothesis of World Deforestation
213
1
Dominion Capitalist Landscapes in New Zealand
214
9
Regional landscape transformation
216
2
Local landscape transformation
218
5
Representing, Reading and Reclaiming Landscapes
223
12
Iconography of New Zealand landscapes
224
6
Mapping Tongariro
230
5
Conclusion
235
2
Managing Environments
237
24
John Campbell
Introduction
238
2
Resource Management
240
1
Society and, or in, the Environment
240
2
Geographers and the Environment
242
2
New Zealand Environmental Ideologies
244
5
Putting environmental perspectives into context
247
2
History of Environmental Management in New Zealand
249
2
The Rise to Dominance of the Managerialist Regime: The Resource Management Law Reform
251
4
The Resource Management Act: Its Principles and Application
255
2
The New Zealand Brand
257
1
Linkages between Managing the `Real' and `Represented' Environments
258
1
Conclusions: Managing the Environment: Nature, Myth or Brand
259
2
Sustaining Environments
261
25
Peter Urich
What is Sustainability?
262
1
Disciplinary Perspectives: Contrasts or Common Threads
263
2
Sustainable Management
265
2
Understanding the evolution of paradigms
265
2
Sustainability in the International Arena
267
6
Operationalising global resource sustainability
268
5
Precautionary Principle
273
3
Local Change: Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees
276
5
The situation
277
3
Summary
280
1
Ecological Footprints: A New View on Sustaining Environments
281
2
New Zealand's footprint
282
1
Conclusion: The Cost of Sustainability
283
3
Section 4 Exploring the urban
286
82
Visioning Cities
289
29
Laurence Murphy
Introduction
290
2
A Place for Everyone and Everyone in their Place?
292
3
The 19th Century Industrial City
295
3
The Modern City
298
4
Urban planning and state intervention
300
1
Economic and social change
301
1
The Postmodern City
302
2
The Third World City
304
6
Rapid urbanisation
306
2
Dual economies
308
1
Housing in the Third World city
308
2
Global Cities
310
4
Ordinary Cities
314
2
Conclusion
316
2
Consuming Spaces
318
27
Juliana Mansvelt
Introduction
319
3
Conceptualising Consumption
322
1
Theorising Historical Change in Consumption
323
4
A New Era Of Consumption? Reviewing Modern and Postmodern Epochs
327
6
Consuming Spaces---Leisure in City and Country
333
3
The urban experience? shopping for pleasure
334
2
Consuming the Rural---(Re)creating Rural Spaces
336
3
Connections: Producing Consumption---Consuming Production
339
4
Conclusion
343
2
Remaking Places
345
23
Eric Pawson
Introduction
346
1
Setting the Themes
347
1
Urban Restructuring
348
2
Place Identities
350
3
Urban Entrepreneurialism
353
5
Promoting New Zealand's Cities
358
2
Counter Images
360
4
Conclusion: Urban Sustainability
364
4
Section 5 Reflections---Geographers and Geography
368
19
Jobs and Geographers
371
11
Margaret Goldstone
Encountering Place as Metaphor and Narrative
382
5
Richard Le Heron
Laurence Murphy
Christina Stringer
Glossary
387
20
References
407
24
Index
431