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RGS‐IBG Book Series

For further information about the series and a full list of published and forthcoming titles please visit www.rgsbookseries.com

Published

Smoking Geographies: Space, Place and Tobacco
Ross Barnett, Graham Moon, Jamie Pearce, Lee Thompson and Liz Twigg

Rehearsing the State: The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government‐in‐Exile
Fiona McConnell

Nothing Personal? Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
Nick Gill

Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations
John Pickles and Adrian Smith, with Robert Begg, Milan Buček, Poli Roukova and Rudolf Pástor

Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
Alexander Vasudevan

Everyday Peace? Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India
Philippa Williams

Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
Stefan Ouma

Africa’s Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding
Andy Pike

In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
David Matless

Geopolitics and Expertise: Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy
Merje Kuus

Everyday Moral Economies: Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba
Marisa Wilson

Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline
Andrew Barry

Fashioning Globalisation: New Zealand Design, Working Women and the Cultural Economy
Maureen Molloy and Wendy Larner

Working Lives ‐ Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945‐2007
Linda McDowell

Dunes: Dynamics, Morphology and Geological History
Andrew Warren

Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey
Edited by David Featherstone and Joe Painter

The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia
Alex Jeffrey

Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage
Colin McFarlane

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption
Clive Barnett, Paul Cloke, Nick Clarke & Alice Malpass

Domesticating Neo‐Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post‐Socialist Cities
Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, Alena Rochovská and Dariusz Świątek

Swept Up Lives? Re‐envisioning the Homeless City
Paul Cloke, Jon May and Sarah Johnsen

Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects
Peter Adey

Millionaire Migrants: Trans‐Pacific Life Lines
David Ley

State, Science and the Skies: Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere
Mark Whitehead

Complex Locations: Women’s geographical work in the UK 1850–1970
Avril Maddrell

Value Chain Struggles: Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India
Jeff Neilson and Bill Pritchard

Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town
Andrew Tucker

Arsenic Pollution: A Global Synthesis
Peter Ravenscroft, Hugh Brammer and Keith Richards

Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter‐Global Networks
David Featherstone

Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies?
Hester Parr

Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability
Georgina H. Endfield

Geochemical Sediments and Landscapes
Edited by David J. Nash and Sue J. McLaren

Driving Spaces: A Cultural‐Historical Geography of England’s M1 Motorway
Peter Merriman

Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy
Mustafa Dikeç

Geomorphology of Upland Peat: Erosion, Form and Landscape Change
Martin Evans and Jeff Warburton

Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities
Stephen Legg

People/States/Territories
Rhys Jones

Publics and the City
Kurt Iveson

After the Three Italies: Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change
Mick Dunford and Lidia Greco

Putting Workfare in Place
Peter Sunley, Ron Martin and Corinne Nativel

Domicile and Diaspora
Alison Blunt

Geographies and Moralities
Edited by Roger Lee and David M. Smith

Military Geographies
Rachel Woodward

A New Deal for Transport?
Edited by Iain Docherty and Jon Shaw

Geographies of British Modernity
Edited by David Gilbert, David Matless and Brian Short

Lost Geographies of Power
John Allen

Globalizing South China
Carolyn L. Cartier

Geomorphological Processes and Landscape Change: Britain in the Last 1000 Years
Edited by David L. Higgitt and E. Mark Lee

Forthcoming

Home SOS: Gender, Injustice and Rights in Cambodia
Katherine Brickell

Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics
Steve Hinchliffe, Nick Bingham, John Allen and Simon Carter

Work‐Life Advantage: Sustaining Regional Learning and Innovation
Al James

Cryptic Concrete: A Subterranean Journey Into Cold War Germany
Ian Klinke

Body, Space and Affect
Steve Pile

Making Other Worlds: Agency and Interaction in Environmental Change
John Wainwright

Transnational Geographies Of The Heart: Intimacy In A Globalising World
Katie Walsh

Smoking Geographies

Space, Place and Tobacco

Ross Barnett, Graham Moon, Jamie Pearce, Lee Thompson and Liz Twigg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About the Authors

Ross Barnett is Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Graham Moon is Professor of Spatial Analysis in Human Geography at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Jamie Pearce is Professor of Health Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Lee Thompson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Liz Twigg is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.

Series Editors’ Preface

The RGS‐IBG Book Series only publishes work of the highest international standing. Its emphasis is on distinctive new developments in human and physical geography, although it is also open to contributions from cognate disciplines whose interests overlap with those of geographers. The Series places strong emphasis on theoretically‐informed and empirically‐strong texts. Reflecting the vibrant and diverse theoretical and empirical agendas that characterize the contemporary discipline, contributions are expected to inform, challenge and stimulate the reader. Overall, the RGS‐IBG Book Series seeks to promote scholarly publications that leave an intellectual mark and change the way readers think about particular issues, methods or theories.

For details on how to submit a proposal please visit:
www.rgsbookseries.com

David Featherstone
University of Glasgow, UK

Tim Allott
University of Manchester, UK

RGS‐IBG Book Series Editors

Preface

This collective monograph records the outcomes of a research collaboration that has extended over many years. We have shared a commitment to bring a geographical lens to bear on smoking behaviour and to uncovering how geography can play a part in understanding not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control. We have sought to bring both quantitative and qualitative perspectives to bear on what is, by any analysis, a major source of mortality and morbidity, and a vexed and much‐debated policy issue. Our own original research sits alongside our assessment of the multidisciplinary perspectives that make up the contemporary geography of smoking.

In writing we took a genuinely collective approach. Each chapter has passed through many hands both in its initial development and in final drafting. From initial discussions in Christchurch, New Zealand, where we have each, on occasion, been based, we have subsequently met in various combinations in Southampton, Portsmouth and Edinburgh, passed drafts by email and converged to the final text. We each take responsibility for the whole.

Acknowledgements

We each acknowledge the support of partners, spouses and colleagues. Graham and Liz acknowledge Tom, Laura and Joe for their forbearance and Mickey Moon who was a research subject in the original British Doctor's Study that linked smoking to lung cancer. Jamie gratefully acknowledges the support of a European Research Council grant (ERC‐2010‐StG grant 263501). He would also like to thank Vicky, Ted and Maddie for their support and patience. Lee Thompson would like to acknowledge her mother Ethne Thompson who, by her own admission, gave up smoking too late. She died of lung cancer in 2008.