Academic Articles & Research Papers

Emotions and affect in recent human geography

This paper seeks to examine both how emotions have been explored in emotional geography and also how affect has been understood in affectual geography. By tracing out the conceptual influences underlying emotional and affectual geography, I...

Using Photographs as Illustrations in Human Geography

Photographs have always played a major role in geographical studies. Ever since the invention of photography in the 1830s, it has been assumed that photographs are perfectly suited to helping us an......

Human Geography: The Basics

Human Geography: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of the role that humankind plays in shaping the world around us. Whether it’s environmental concerns, the cities we live in or the globalization of the economy, these are is...

Conducting Research in Human Geography

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, C...

Doing Gender: Feminism, Feminists and Research Methods in Human Geography

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...

Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

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...

A Feminist glossary of human geography

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...

Human Geography and Ecological Sociology

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 ...

The Penguin dictionary of human geography

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...

Disability studies in human geography

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...

Concepts in human geography

Encyclopedia of Human Geography

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...

THE DECLINE OF FIELDWORK IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY∗

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 ...

Human Geography and Area Research

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...

Exploring Human Geography

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...

Mathematical Methods in Human Geography and Planning

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 ...

Concepts in Human Geography

This collection explores the origins, development, and applications of the most fundamental and enduring concepts in human geography. Providing the most comprehensive examination of the field to date, nine essays on substantive concepts, su...

International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography

Human geography and the institutions that underlie economic growth

Human geography is in a unique position to understand how local structural factors shape social, political, and ultimately economic outcomes. Indeed, the discipline has had much to say about the interaction between local institutions and th...

Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture

1 Introduction to Human Geography 2 Population 3 Migration 4 Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes 5 Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality 6 Language 7 Religion 8 Political Geography 9 Urban Geography 10 Developm...