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  • Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss

    Grief and Consolation in Space and Time

    Edited by Christoph Jedan, Avril Maddrell, Eric Venbrux ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of the concept ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage

    Journeying to the Sacred

    by Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora, Alessandro Scafi, Heather Walton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) and the Isle of Man. These are each sites of scenic beauty that boast a rich heritage associated ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Deathscapes

    Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

    by James D. Sidaway ...
    Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortuary. However, death also affects and unfolds in many other spaces: the home, public spaces and places of worship, sites ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion

    European Perspectives

    Edited by Lena Gemzöe, Marja-Liisa Keinänen, Avril Maddrell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book undertakes theoretical and empirical explorations of relational and co-constitutive encounters of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Charity Shops

    Retailing, Consumption and Society

    by Suzanne Horne, Avril Maddrell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
    In the late 1990s, there was a distinct rise in interest in the non-profit sector, and in retailing and consumption. Drawing together these two concerns this book provides a comprehensive and international account of the retail charity sector.Charity shops are now significant occupiers of the UK high street, and are becoming familiar sites of consumption in the USA, Australia, Canada and Ireland. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Sacred Mobilities

    Journeys of Belief and Belonging

    by Avril Maddrell, Alan Terry ...
    This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with people, objects and other things on the move. Consideration of a wide range of spiritual meanings and practices also sheds light on the motivations and experiences associated with particular mobilities. Drawing on rich, situated case studies, this multi-disciplinary collection ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Complex Locations

    Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970

    by Avril Maddrell ...
    Series Book 61 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field.A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War IIMakes the work of women geographers visible ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Mobilities in Life and Death

    Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries

    Edited by Avril Maddrell, Sonja Kmec, Tanu Priya Uteng, Mariske Westendorp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established ... Read more

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    by Dean Ashenden ...
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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

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  • Psychogeography

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    In recent years the term "psychogeography" has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy ... Read more

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  • Mobilising the Racialised 'Others'

    Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics

    by Suvi Keskinen ...
    This book provides an original approach to the connections of race, racism and neoliberalisation through a focus on ‘postethnic activism,’ in which mobilisation is based on racialisation as non-white or ‘other’ instead of ethnic group membership.Developing the theoretical understanding of political activism under the neoliberal turn in racial capitalism and the increasingly hostile political ... Read more

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