Geography and Geographers 6th Edition
Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945
6th Edition
Published on 17. December 2015
Book
Hardback
542 pages
978-1-138-13806-3 (ISBN)
Description
Geography and Geographers provides a survey of the major debates, key thinkers and schools of thought in human geography in the English-speaking world, setting them within the context of economic, social, cultural and political as well as intellectual changes. It focuses on the debates among geographers regarding what their discipline should study and how that should be done, and draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a fifty-year period characterised by both growth in the number of academic geographers and substantial shifts in conceptions of the discipline's scientific rationale.
The pace and volume of change within the discipline show no sign of diminishing, and this sixth edition has been extensively revised and updated to reflect both continued developments within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. There is more material on cultural geography, 'radical approaches', and feminist geographies, alongside comprehensive coverage of recent changes across the discipline. Above all, the book maintains its traditional strength of offering a thoroughly contemporary perspective on human geography.
Praise for Geography and Geographers
'has probably done more to shape human geographers' collective sense of what geography is and has been about than any other single source' Political Geography
'this is a fine book. It has no equal for providing a comprehensive tour d'horizon of modern human geography.' Environment and Planning A
The pace and volume of change within the discipline show no sign of diminishing, and this sixth edition has been extensively revised and updated to reflect both continued developments within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. There is more material on cultural geography, 'radical approaches', and feminist geographies, alongside comprehensive coverage of recent changes across the discipline. Above all, the book maintains its traditional strength of offering a thoroughly contemporary perspective on human geography.
Praise for Geography and Geographers
'has probably done more to shape human geographers' collective sense of what geography is and has been about than any other single source' Political Geography
'this is a fine book. It has no equal for providing a comprehensive tour d'horizon of modern human geography.' Environment and Planning A
Reviews / Votes
A great updated sixth edition - once again the market leader in the field.Dr Myles Gould, University of Leeds
'A revamped classic, essential for student reading.'
Dr A Nayak, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
This text will be invaluable for students on our new Geography and Planning degree as a crucial survey of the evolution of geography since 1945. It is without equal as a summary of the discipline and its contemporary development.
Mr D. Valler, University of Sheffield, UK
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Edition
6th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-13806-3 (9781138138063)
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Ron Johnston | James Sidaway
Geography and Geographers 6th Edition
Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945
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Persons
Ron Johnston is Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.
James Sidaway is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Plymouth, UK.
James Sidaway is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Plymouth, UK.
Content
1. The nature of an academic discipline
Disciplines and institutions
The academic working environment
Three types of science
The external environment
Academic life
Conclusions
2. Foundations
Geography in the modern period
Exploration
Environmental determinism and possibilism
The region and regional geography
Geography in the early 1950s
3. Growth of systematic studies and the adoption of aEUR?scientific methodaEUR (TM)
The critique of regional geography
SchaeferaEUR (TM)s paper and the response
Developments in systematic geography in the United States
Scientific method in human geography
Spread of scientific method
Conclusions
4. Human geography as spatial science
Spatial variables and spatial systems
Spatial theory
Systems
Spatial separatism
Behavioural geography
Spatial (or geo-) statistics
Computers and GIS
Moving forward
Conclusions
5. Humanistic geography
Cultural and historical behavioural geography
The attack on positivism
The practice of humanistic geography
Conclusions
6. aEUR?RadicalaEUR (TM) geographies
Radical beginnings
Structuralist Marxisms and regulation theory
aEUR?LocalitiesaEUR (TM)
A aEUR?new regional geographyaEUR (TM)
Realism and structuration
The production of nature
Radicals in debate
Conclusions
7. Postmodern geographies
Posts- and turns
Postmodernism
Poststructuralism: power, language, texts and discourse
Postcolonialism: decolonising human geography?
Conclusions
8. Feminist geographies
Diverse strands
Rethinking histories of geography
From the geography of women to socialist feminisms
Feminist geographies of difference
Sexuality and space
Conclusions
9. Applied geography and the relevance debate
Disenchantment and disillusion in academic geography
Relevance, to what and for whom?
The liberal contribution
Inequality, justice and ethics
Environmentalism
Geographers and policy
Changing contexts and applied geography
Continuing debates
Conclusions
10. A changing discipline?
Human geographers and models of disciplinary progress
Geography and its environment
Geographies of geography?
Human geography: paradigms, or research programmes, or aEUR|?
An abundance of turbulence
And the future?
Bibliography
General Index
Author Index
Disciplines and institutions
The academic working environment
Three types of science
The external environment
Academic life
Conclusions
2. Foundations
Geography in the modern period
Exploration
Environmental determinism and possibilism
The region and regional geography
Geography in the early 1950s
3. Growth of systematic studies and the adoption of aEUR?scientific methodaEUR (TM)
The critique of regional geography
SchaeferaEUR (TM)s paper and the response
Developments in systematic geography in the United States
Scientific method in human geography
Spread of scientific method
Conclusions
4. Human geography as spatial science
Spatial variables and spatial systems
Spatial theory
Systems
Spatial separatism
Behavioural geography
Spatial (or geo-) statistics
Computers and GIS
Moving forward
Conclusions
5. Humanistic geography
Cultural and historical behavioural geography
The attack on positivism
The practice of humanistic geography
Conclusions
6. aEUR?RadicalaEUR (TM) geographies
Radical beginnings
Structuralist Marxisms and regulation theory
aEUR?LocalitiesaEUR (TM)
A aEUR?new regional geographyaEUR (TM)
Realism and structuration
The production of nature
Radicals in debate
Conclusions
7. Postmodern geographies
Posts- and turns
Postmodernism
Poststructuralism: power, language, texts and discourse
Postcolonialism: decolonising human geography?
Conclusions
8. Feminist geographies
Diverse strands
Rethinking histories of geography
From the geography of women to socialist feminisms
Feminist geographies of difference
Sexuality and space
Conclusions
9. Applied geography and the relevance debate
Disenchantment and disillusion in academic geography
Relevance, to what and for whom?
The liberal contribution
Inequality, justice and ethics
Environmentalism
Geographers and policy
Changing contexts and applied geography
Continuing debates
Conclusions
10. A changing discipline?
Human geographers and models of disciplinary progress
Geography and its environment
Geographies of geography?
Human geography: paradigms, or research programmes, or aEUR|?
An abundance of turbulence
And the future?
Bibliography
General Index
Author Index