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  • Critical Data Studies

    An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produced, managed, governed and shared; investigates how they are used to make sense of the world and to perform practical action; and explores whose agenda data-driven systems serve.This book is the first ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Data Revolution

    A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Our world is becoming ever more data-driven, transforming how business is conducted, governance enacted, and knowledge produced. Yet, the nature of data and the scope and implications of the changes taking place are not always clear. The Data Revolution is a must read for anyone interested in why data have become so important in the contemporary era.Thoroughly updated, including ten new chapters, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Digital Timescapes

    Technology, Temporality and Society

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Digital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, households and organisations. We now expect to be able to instantly source a vast array of information at any time and from anywhere, as well as buy goods with the click of a button and have them delivered within hours, while time management apps and locative media have altered how everyday scheduling and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Data Lives

    How Data Are Made and Shape Our World

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake?In Data Lives, renowned social scientist Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

    by Rob Kitchin, Nigel Thrift ...
    The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in ... Read more

    $4,769.99 CAD

  • Conducting Research in Human Geography

    theory, methodology and practice

    by Rob Kitchin, Nick Tate ...
    Reading this book is your first step to becoming a competent human geography researcher. Whether you are a novice needing practical help for your first piece of research or a professional in search of an accessible guide to best practice, Conducting Research in Human Geography is a unique and indispensable book to have at hand. The book provides a broad overview of theoretical underpinnings in ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Slow Computing

    Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives

    by Rob Kitchin, Alistair Fraser ...
    Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances.Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Human Geography

    by Alisdair Rogers, Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Human Geography is a brand new addition to Oxford's Paperback Reference Series, offering over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography terms. From basic terms and concepts to biographical entries, acronyms, organisations, and major periods and schools in the history of human geography, it provides up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information. It also includes entry ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Key Thinkers on Space and Place

    Edited by Mary Gilmartin, Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Susan M. Roberts ...
    Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think. This updated edition of the essential undergraduate text will introduce you to the most influential thinkers in the tradition of social theory, with a new focus on the past fifty years. This book is designed to engage with theoretical debates in human geography through the individuals who have made the most significant ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Digital Geographies

    Edited by Rob Kitchin, James Ash, Agnieszka Leszczynski ...
    As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include: the production of space, spatiality and mobilities; the processes, practices, and forms of mapping; the contours of spatial knowledge and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Right to the Smart City

    Edited by Paolo Cardullo, Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Rob Kitchin ...
    Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda. In general, these initiatives are promoted and rolled-out by governments and corporations which enact various forms of top-down, technocratic governance and reproduce neoliberal governmentality. Despite calls for the smart city agenda to be more citizen-centric and bottom-up in nature, how this translates into policy and initiatives is ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Map Reader

    Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

    Edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins ...
    WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel FoundationThe Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD