"The book covers some of the (traditionally) most obtuse and difficult-to-grasp philosophical ideas that have influenced geographers/geography. The fact that these are presented in an inclusive and accessible manner is a key strength. Many students have commented that the chapters they have read have encouraged them to read more in this field, which is fantastic from a lecturer's perspective." - Richard White, Sheffield Hallam University A new edition of the classic Approaches text for students, organised in three sections, which overviews and explains the history and philosophy of Human Geographies in all its applications by those who practise it: Section One - Philosophies: Positivist Geography / Humanism / Feminist Geographies / Marxisms / Structuration Theory / Human Animal / Realism / Postmodern Geographies/ Poststructuralist Theories / Actor-Network Theory, / Postcolonialism / Geohumanities / Technologies Section Two - People: Institutions and Cultures / Places and Contexts / Memories and Desires / Understanding Place / Personal and Political / Becoming a Geographer / Movement and Encounter / Spaces and Flows / Places as Thoughts Section Three - Practices: Mapping and Geovisualization / Quantification, Evidence, and Positivism / Geographic Information Systems / Humanism / Activism / Feminist Geographies / Poststructuralist Theories / Psychoanalysis / Environmental Inquiry / Contested Geographies and Culture Wars Fully updated throughout and with eight brand new chapters - this is the core text for modules on history, theory, and practice in Human Geography.
"The book covers some of the (traditionally) most obtuse and difficult-to-grasp philosophical ideas that have influenced geographers/geography. The fact that these are presented in an inclusive and accessible manner is a key strength. Many students have commented that the chapters they have read have encouraged them to read more in this field, which is fantastic from a lecturer's perspective." - Richard White, Sheffield Hallam University A new edition of the classic Approaches text for students, organised in three sections, which overviews and explains the history and philosophy of Human Geographies in all its applications by those who practise it: Section One - Philosophies: Positivist Geography / Humanism / Feminist Geographies / Marxisms / Structuration Theory / Human Animal / Realism / Postmodern Geographies/ Poststructuralist Theories / Actor-Network Theory, / Postcolonialism / Geohumanities / Technologies Section Two - People: Institutions and Cultures / Places and Contexts / Memories and Desires / Understanding Place / Personal and Political / Becoming a Geographer / Movement and Encounter / Spaces and Flows / Places as Thoughts Section Three - Practices: Mapping and Geovisualization / Quantification, Evidence, and Positivism / Geographic Information Systems / Humanism / Activism / Feminist Geographies / Poststructuralist Theories / Psychoanalysis / Environmental Inquiry / Contested Geographies and Culture Wars Fully updated throughout and with eight brand new chapters - this is the core text for modules on history, theory, and practice in Human Geography.
"This book clearly outlines key concepts that all geographers should readily be able to explain. It does so in a highly accessible way. It is likely to be a text that my students will return to throughout their degree." - Dr Karen Parkhill, Bangor University "The editors have done a fantastic job. This second edition is really accessible to the student and provides the key literature in the key geographical terms of scale, space, time, place and landscape." - Dr Elias Symeonakis, Manchester Metropolitan University "An excellent introductory text for accessible overviews of key concepts across human and physical geography." - Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, Exeter University Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource. Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides in one volume concepts from both human geography and physical geography. Four introductory chapters on different intellectual traditions in geography situate and introduce the entries on the key concepts. Each entry then comprises a short definition, a summary of the principal arguments, a substantive 5,000-word discussion, the use of real-life examples, and annotated notes for further reading. Written in an accessible way by established figures in the discipline, the definitions provide thorough explanations of all the core concepts that undergraduates of geography must understand to complete their degree.
"This book clearly outlines key concepts that all geographers should readily be able to explain. It does so in a highly accessible way. It is likely to be a text that my students will return to throughout their degree." - Dr Karen Parkhill, Bangor University "The editors have done a fantastic job. This second edition is really accessible to the student and provides the key literature in the key geographical terms of scale, space, time, place and landscape." - Dr Elias Symeonakis, Manchester Metropolitan University "An excellent introductory text for accessible overviews of key concepts across human and physical geography." - Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, Exeter University Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource. Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides in one volume concepts from both human geography and physical geography. Four introductory chapters on different intellectual traditions in geography situate and introduce the entries on the key concepts. Each entry then comprises a short definition, a summary of the principal arguments, a substantive 5,000-word discussion, the use of real-life examples, and annotated notes for further reading. Written in an accessible way by established figures in the discipline, the definitions provide thorough explanations of all the core concepts that undergraduates of geography must understand to complete their degree.
'A book that will delight students! Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject's landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation. The commissioned essays aim to assess the impacts, responses, significance and legacies of the books they discuss while evaluating their key arguments and providing a guide to how they should be read. In this sense, the book is brilliantly successful. The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through! For those students who would have engaged with the original texts anyway, this will be an invaluable companion; for many others, it will be an invaluable crib sheet! for my money, this is as good a list as any and one that accurately reflects the curricula of the courses for which it is designed! it will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts' - THE Textbook Guide 'Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals!' - Prof James D Sidaway, School of Geography, University of Plymouth 'An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core' - Barney Warf, Florida State University Undergraduate geography students are often directed to 'key' texts in the literature but find them difficult to read because of their language and argument. As a result, they fail to get to grips with the subject matter and gravitate towards course textbooks instead. Key Texts in Human Geography serves as a primer and companion to the key texts in human geography published over the past 40 years. It is not a reader, but a volume of 26 interpretive essays highlighting: " the significance of the text " how the book should be read " reactions and controversies surrounding the book " the book's long-term legacy. This book is an essential reference guide for all students of human geography and provides an invaluable interpretive tool in answering questions about human geography and what constitutes geographical 'knowledge'. CONTENTS: Torsten Hagerstrand 'Innovation Diffusion as Spatial Process' (1953) Bo Lenntrop William Bunge 'Theoretical Geography' (1962) Michael F. Goodchild Peter Haggett 'Locational Analysis in Human Geography' (1965) Martin Charlton David Harvey 'Explanation in Geography' (1969) Ron Johnston Kevin Cox 'Conflict, Power and Politics in the City' (1973) Andy Wood Edward Relph 'Place and Placelessness' (1976) David Seamon and Jacob Sowers Yi-Fu Tuan 'Space and Place' (1977) Tim Cresswell David Harvey 'The Limits to Capital' (1982) Noel Castree Neil Smith 'Uneven Development' (1984) Martin Phillips Doreen Massey 'Spatial Divisions of Labour' (1984) Nick Phelps Women in Geography Study Group 'Geography and Gender' (1984) Susan Hanson Denis Cosgrove 'Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape' (1984) David Gilbert Stuart Corbridge 'Capitalist World Development' (1986) Satish Kumar Peter Dicken 'Global Shift' (1986) Jonathan Beaverstock David Harvey 'The Condition of Postmodernity' (1989) Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III Edward Soja 'Postmodern Geographies' (1989) Claudio Minca Michael Storper and Richard Walker 'The Capitalist Imperative' (1989) Neil Coe David Livingstone 'The Geographic Tradition' (1992) Nick Spedding Gillian Rose 'Feminism and Geography' (1992) Robyn Longhurst Derek Gregory 'Geographical Imaginations' (1995) John Pickles David Sibley 'Geographies of Exclusion' (1995) Phil Hubbard Gearoid O'Tuathail 'Critical Geopolitics' (1996) Jo Sharp Trevor Barnes 'Logics of Dislocation' (1996) Philip Kelly Sarah Whatmore 'Hybrid Geographies' (2002) Sarah Dyer Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 'Cities' (2002) Alan Latham Doreen Massey 'For Space' (2005) Ben Anderson
'A book that will delight students! Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject's landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation. The commissioned essays aim to assess the impacts, responses, significance and legacies of the books they discuss while evaluating their key arguments and providing a guide to how they should be read. In this sense, the book is brilliantly successful. The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through! For those students who would have engaged with the original texts anyway, this will be an invaluable companion; for many others, it will be an invaluable crib sheet! for my money, this is as good a list as any and one that accurately reflects the curricula of the courses for which it is designed! it will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts' - THE Textbook Guide 'Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals!' - Prof James D Sidaway, School of Geography, University of Plymouth 'An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core' - Barney Warf, Florida State University Undergraduate geography students are often directed to 'key' texts in the literature but find them difficult to read because of their language and argument. As a result, they fail to get to grips with the subject matter and gravitate towards course textbooks instead. Key Texts in Human Geography serves as a primer and companion to the key texts in human geography published over the past 40 years. It is not a reader, but a volume of 26 interpretive essays highlighting: " the significance of the text " how the book should be read " reactions and controversies surrounding the book " the book's long-term legacy. This book is an essential reference guide for all students of human geography and provides an invaluable interpretive tool in answering questions about human geography and what constitutes geographical 'knowledge'. CONTENTS: Torsten Hagerstrand 'Innovation Diffusion as Spatial Process' (1953) Bo Lenntrop William Bunge 'Theoretical Geography' (1962) Michael F. Goodchild Peter Haggett 'Locational Analysis in Human Geography' (1965) Martin Charlton David Harvey 'Explanation in Geography' (1969) Ron Johnston Kevin Cox 'Conflict, Power and Politics in the City' (1973) Andy Wood Edward Relph 'Place and Placelessness' (1976) David Seamon and Jacob Sowers Yi-Fu Tuan 'Space and Place' (1977) Tim Cresswell David Harvey 'The Limits to Capital' (1982) Noel Castree Neil Smith 'Uneven Development' (1984) Martin Phillips Doreen Massey 'Spatial Divisions of Labour' (1984) Nick Phelps Women in Geography Study Group 'Geography and Gender' (1984) Susan Hanson Denis Cosgrove 'Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape' (1984) David Gilbert Stuart Corbridge 'Capitalist World Development' (1986) Satish Kumar Peter Dicken 'Global Shift' (1986) Jonathan Beaverstock David Harvey 'The Condition of Postmodernity' (1989) Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III Edward Soja 'Postmodern Geographies' (1989) Claudio Minca Michael Storper and Richard Walker 'The Capitalist Imperative' (1989) Neil Coe David Livingstone 'The Geographic Tradition' (1992) Nick Spedding Gillian Rose 'Feminism and Geography' (1992) Robyn Longhurst Derek Gregory 'Geographical Imaginations' (1995) John Pickles David Sibley 'Geographies of Exclusion' (1995) Phil Hubbard Gearoid O'Tuathail 'Critical Geopolitics' (1996) Jo Sharp Trevor Barnes 'Logics of Dislocation' (1996) Philip Kelly Sarah Whatmore 'Hybrid Geographies' (2002) Sarah Dyer Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 'Cities' (2002) Alan Latham Doreen Massey 'For Space' (2005) Ben Anderson
