The dictionary of human geography
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https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-9327(82)90084-9
Recently, there has been a marked growth of interest in research methods in geography. Stimulated in part by the epistemological questions raised by feminist and post-modem critiques of 'scientific' method, this interest took a severely pra...
https://doi.org/10.2307/622707
Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in...
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547619
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.08.001
A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography is the first guide to the main theories, concepts and terms commonly used in geographical debates about gender relations. Written by key contributors to feminist theory, it contains over 400 lively and...
https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-0046
This article discusses how American geography and sociology began their university institutionalization in the 1890s with some very similar disciplinary points of origin and understanding of their subject matter but subsequently carved out ...
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012852
Terms drawn from a host of different topics - the economics of trade and industry, politics and sociology, the environment and land use, planning and management - are used constantly by human geographers. This reference book provides defini...
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate concerning the current and future state of human geography by focusing on its changing treatment of the past. I argue that, while contemporary human geography has experienced a welcomed explosion...
https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132504ph481oa
Studies of disability have been rare in human geography until a recent blossoming of interest. In this article we review the expanding literature on disability, charting the process by which such studies have become newly significant in the...
https://doi.org/10.1191/030913298672928786
https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-1069
https://doi.org/10.2307/1965160
The chapter explores the geographies of affect and emotion and argues that they are profoundly important for understanding all geographies. As well as drawing out some of the different ways the terms have been used in geography and why both...
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429265853
Human geography focuses on the ways that humans interact with each other and with the environment, illuminating the complex processes and nature of our global society. This book presents the full range of this remarkable field, presenting n...
https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216973294
Fieldwork has been an important component of human geography. A multi-decade analysis of articles in three major journals shows that human geographers since the mid-1970s have produced less fieldwork-based research than ever before in this ...
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-0124.1989.00294.x
Introduction: Fieldwork for Human Geographers PART ONE: APPROACHING THE FIELD Getting the Most out of Fieldwork Justifying the Cost: Your Degree and Your Job Prospects Before You Go: Research Design and Preparation Ethics: Positioning Yours...
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412939591.n426
FIRST glance it might appear that only in physical geography would a A geographer make a contribution to an area research program staffed by social scientists. Geographers, however, do not so delimit their field.' This paper focuses in part...
https://doi.org/10.1080/00045605309352103
A lively and stimulating resource for all first year students of human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loos...
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315832555
This volume has been written for students, researchers and practitioners in the field of human geography and planning, and describes how mathematics is used as a tool in these subjects by illustration with examples from the field. Detailed ...
https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1986.207