People & Place
The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life

By Lewis Holloway & Phil Hubbard
August 2002
Pearson Education
ISBN: 0-582-38212-2
293 pages, Illustrated, 6 3/4 x 9 1/4"
$52.50 Paper Original

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This book covers behavioral, humanistic and cultural traditions, showing how these can lead to a nuanced understanding of how we relate to our surroundings on a day-to-day basis. The authors also explore how human geography is currently influenced by "postmodern" ideas stressing difference and diversity.

While taking the importance of these different approaches seriously as ways of thinking about the role of place in people's everyday lives, the book also tries to encapsulate what has been so vibrant and exciting about human geography over the last couple of decades.

By using examples to which students can relate - such as how they imagine and represent their home, the way they avoid certain spaces, how they move through retail spaces, where they choose to go to university, how they use the internet, how they represent other nations and so on - the authors show how geography shapes everyday life in a manner that is seemingly mundane yet profoundly important.

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