Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography

This volume of the series was designed to provide a comprehensive primer on the existing best practices and emerging developments in the study and design research on crime and criminology. The work as a whole includes chapters on the measurement of criminal typologies, the offenders, offending and victimization, criminal justice organizations, and specialized measurement techniques. Each chapter is written by experts in the field, and they provide an excellent survey of the literature in the relevant area. More importantly, each chapter provides a description of the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues and denotes possible solutions to these dilemmas. An emphasis was placed on research that has been conducted outside of the United States and was designed to give the reader a broader more global understanding of the social context of research. The goal of this volume is to provide a definitive reference for professionals in the field, researchers, and students. This volume in the “Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice” series identifies the principal topical areas of research in this field and summarizes the various methodological and substantive challenges presented in conducting research on these issues. In each chapter, authors provide a summary of the prominent data collection efforts in the topical area, provide an overview of the current methodological work, discuss the challenges in the measurement of central concepts in the subject area, and identify new horizons emerging in data collection and measurement. We encouraged authors to discuss work conducted in an international context and to incorporate discussion of qualitative methodologies when appropriate.

“The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism” brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the origins, evolution, and contemporary debates relating to Christian mystics, texts, and the movements they inspired. • Provides a comprehensive and engaging account of Christian mysticism, from its origins right up to the present day • Draws on the best of current scholarship by bringing together a collection of newly-commissioned readings by leading scholars • Considers examples of mysticism in both Eastern and Western Christianity • Offers a brilliant synthesis of the key figures and historical periods of mysticism; its core themes, such as heresy, gender, or aesthetics; and its theoretical considerations, including theological, literary, social scientific, and philosophical approaches • Features chapters on current debates such as neuroscience and mystical experience, and inter-religious dialogue

Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural geography currently available. • A significantly revised new edition covering a number of new topics such as biotechnology, rural, food, media and tech, borders and tourism, whilst also reflecting developments in established subjects including animal geographies • Edited and written by the leading authorities in this fast-developing discipline, and features a host of new contributors to the second edition • Traces the historical evolution of cultural geography through to the very latest research • Provides an international perspective, reflecting the advancing academic traditions of non-Western institutions, especially in Asia • Features a thematic structure, with sections exploring topics such as identities, nature and culture, and flows and mobility

A vital resource for understanding how political geography engages with a rapidly transforming world The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography provides an expansive and up-to-date view of the dynamic and evolving field, seamlessly combining critical theoretical debates, empirical investigations, and practical applications. Edited and authored by leading experts from varied intellectual, geographic, and methodological perspectives, this comprehensive volume offers insights into foundational concepts such as power, territory, sovereignty, and nationalism while highlighting the latest global trends, cutting-edge research, and ongoing debates. Balancing continuity with innovation, the second edition of the Companion addresses recent intellectual advances and geopolitical developments, with wholly new coverage of peace, health water politics, climate change, ocean geographies, and much more. The contributing authors demonstrate how political geography remains deeply relevant, connecting long-established themes to the shifting landscapes of contemporary geopolitics. Throughout this edition, new and revised chapters illustrate how core concepts like scale, borders, nationalism, citizenship, and memory are shaped by and shape the world's political landscape. Equipping readers with the intellectual tools to investigate and interpret complex global phenomena, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography: • Offers novel perspectives on nonhuman actors, digitalization, climate change, and the impact of the Anthropocene on geopolitics • Incorporates various interdisciplinary approaches, drawing insights from political science, sociology, and international relations • Features in-depth discussions on feminist geographies, postcolonialism, and practice-based methods in geography • Provides a unique organizational structure that blends conceptual analysis with practical insights across diverse scales • Examines the intersection of materiality and politics, including environmental entanglements and human-material relationships • Emphasizes the evolving nature of borders and citizenship in an increasingly interconnected world Organized into clearly defined sections that guide readers through foundational theories, processes, and applications, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography, Second Edition is invaluable for students in upper-level undergraduate, master's degree, and PhD programs in political geography, political science, international relations, and related disciplines. It is also a key reference for scholars and practitioners looking for a reliable resource for understanding contemporary global issues.

“The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism” combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, and practices. • Offers a comprehensive and balanced survey of Buddhism within East and Central Asia, from the time of the Buddha through to the present day • Provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, traditions, doctrines, practices, and institutions—on topics spanning gender roles, tantric rituals, and the spread of Zen into Europe • Brings together cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary and international contributor team, including historians, literature scholars, and historians, as well as those from religious studies • Presents a panoramic view of the extraordinary richness and variety of local Buddhist expressions and practices within Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tibetan, cultures

This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, whilst challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought. • Organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies can be discussed • Presents an original intervention into the debates about social geography • Highlights the importance of social geography within the broader field of geography.

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. • The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind • Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well-established debates in the field • Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly • Includes contributions from non-Western perspectives and cities.

Addresses both social and cultural geography in a single volume, authored and edited by leading authorities in the fields The Companion to Social and Cultural Geography provides reliable and up-to-date coverage of both foundational topics and emerging themes within two vibrant and increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography. Building upon the Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, editors Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders offer an expertly curated collection of original essays with special emphasis on early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South. Organized thematically, the Companion opens with a series of "Global Dispatches" from cultural and social geographers working in different disciplines and locations, followed by explorations of key concepts in social and cultural geography such as identity, belonging, solidarity, inequalities, and intersectional geographies. Subsequent chapters examine a wide range of cultural and social geographies, including creativity, technologies, science, nature, memory, tourism, migration, labor, and religion. Throughout the Companion, authors share fresh insights into the racial reckonings of late, ongoing issues related to climate change, the consequences of COVID-19, and more. Across its 46 chapters, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography: • Examines how approaches to human-environment dynamics in social and cultural geography help shed light on current challenges • Covers critical topics such as justice, protest, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, genders, class, race, and sexualities • Emphasizes the value of a geographic perspective to understanding social and cultural dynamics • Discusses how geography has confronted its deep connections to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy • Addresses a range of emerging and established themes, including queer and transgender geographies, Black geographies, animal geographies, and cultural geographies of states • Incorporates a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, such as interviews, conversations, short essays, autobiography, and autoethnography Accessible, authoritative, and highly relevant to today's students, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on social or cultural geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.

The first authoritative overview of tourism studies published post-COVID-19 The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism remains a definitive reference in this interdisciplinary field. Edited and authored by leading scholars from around the world, this state-of-the-art volume provides a comprehensive critical overview of tourism studies across the social sciences. In-depth yet accessible chapters combine established theories and cutting-edge developments and analysis, addressing a wide range of current and emerging topics, issues, debates, and themes. The second edition of the Companion reflects the complexity of the changing field, incorporating new developments, diverse theories, core themes, and fresh perspectives throughout. New and revised chapters explore the organization and practice of tourism, pressing health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism and the tourist industry, empowerment, placemaking, mindfulness and wellbeing, resident attitudes towards tourism, Chinese outbound tourism, public transport, long-distance walking, and more. • Covers the full spectrum of tourism studies, including its connections to geography, sociology, urban studies, sustainability, marketing, management, globalization, and policy • Outlines exciting new and emerging approaches, theoretical foundations, and major developments in tourism studies • Offers perspectives on major topics including the role of tourism in the Anthropocene, global and local change, resilience, innovation, and consumer and business behavior • Sets an agenda for future tourism research and reviews significant issues in theory, method, and practice • Features new contributions from an international panel of younger scholars and established researchers With a wealth of up-to-date bibliographic references and extensive coverage of the tourism-related literature, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism, Second Edition, is required reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers, lecturers, and academic scholars in tourism studies, tourism management, tourism geography, tourism theory, sociology, urban studies, and globalization, as well as professionals working in tourism and hospitality management worldwide.

“The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science” is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. • Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field • Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science • Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field • Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry • Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters • Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field