Approaches to Human Geography - Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Stuart C. Aitken is Professor of Geography and June Burnett Chair at SDSU. He directs the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Young People and Space (ISYS). Stuart’s research interests include critical social theory, qualitative methods, children, families and communities. His recent books include The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation (Ashgate 2014), The Fight to Stay Put (Verlag 2013), Young People. Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations (Routledge 2011), Qualitative Geographies (Sage 2010) and The Awkward Spaces of Fathering (Ashgate 2009). Stuart has published over 200 papers in academic journals and edited book collections. Professor Valentine has held prestigious international visiting fellowships at the Universities of Sydney, Australia and Otago, New Zealand and has visited and given keynote addresses at a range of prestigious international conferences. She was co-founder and co-editor of the international journal Social and Cultural Geography, and co-edited Gender, Place and Culture. She has undertaken international research in Europe, Africa and the USA and is committed to developing the University of Sheffield's international strategy within the Faculty of Social Sciences. Klappentext A long awaited new edition of this now classic human geography textbook. Fully updated throughout, it includes chapters written by some of the leading names in the field. Zusammenfassung A long awaited new edition of this now classic human geography textbook. Fully updated throughout! it includes chapters written by some of the leading names in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ways of Knowing and Ways of Doing Geographic Research - Stuart C. Aitken and Gill Valentine Part I: PHILOSOPHIES Positivist Geography - Rob Kitchin Lived Emplacement and the Locality of Being: A Return to Humanistic Geography? - David Seamon Feminist Geographies of Difference, Relation, and Construction - Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III Marx and the Spirit of Marx - George Henderson and Eric Sheppard Structuration Theory: Agency, Structure and Everyday Life - Isabel Dyck and Robin A. Kearns Human Animal - David Lulka Realism as a Basis for Knowing the World - Andrew Sayer Postmodern Geographies and the Ruins of Modernity - David B. Clarke Poststructuralist Theories - Paul Harrison Postscript to Poststructuralist Theories in Geography - Stuart C. Aitken Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Geographies - Fernando J. Bosco Postcolonialism: Powers of Representation - Clive Barnett Geohumanities: Engaging Space and Place in the Humanities - Trevor M. Harris Mind the Gap: Reconsidering Geography¿s Twentieth Century Technological Settlements - Francis Harvey Part II: PEOPLE Institutions and Cultures - Gerard Rushton Places, People and Contexts - David Ley Memories and Desires - David Harvey Understanding the Heart of Place... - Robin A. Kearns Personal and Political - Vera Chouinard How I Became a Geographer - Michael F. Goodchild Movement and Encounter - Lawrence Knopp Spaces and Flows - Janice Monk Setting Out - Nigel Thrift Part III: PRACTICES Mapping and Geovisualization - Martin Dodge Quantification, Evidence and Positivism - A. Stewart Fotheringham Geographic Information Systems - Michael F. Goodchild Humanism and People-Centered Methods - Paul Rodaway To Build Another World: Activism in the Light of Marxist Geographic Thought - Michael Samers, Patrick Bigger and Oliver Belcher Producing Feminist Geographies: Theory, Methodologies and Research Strategies - Kim England Poststructuralist Approaches: Deconstruction and Discourse Analysis - John W. Wylie Pricing Dignity: Psychoanalytical Frameworks and the Burden of ...

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Ways of Knowing and Ways of Doing Geographic Research - Stuart C. Aitken and Gill Valentine
Part I: PHILOSOPHIES
Positivist Geography - Rob Kitchin
Lived Emplacement and the Locality of Being: A Return to Humanistic Geography? - David Seamon
Feminist Geographies of Difference, Relation, and Construction - Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III
Marx and the Spirit of Marx - George Henderson and Eric Sheppard
Structuration Theory: Agency, Structure and Everyday Life - Isabel Dyck and Robin A. Kearns
Human Animal - David Lulka
Realism as a Basis for Knowing the World - Andrew Sayer
Postmodern Geographies and the Ruins of Modernity - David B. Clarke
Poststructuralist Theories - Paul Harrison
Postscript to Poststructuralist Theories in Geography - Stuart C. Aitken
Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Geographies - Fernando J. Bosco
Postcolonialism: Powers of Representation - Clive Barnett
Geohumanities: Engaging Space and Place in the Humanities - Trevor M. Harris
Mind the Gap: Reconsidering Geography's Twentieth Century Technological Settlements - Francis Harvey
Part II: PEOPLE
Institutions and Cultures - Gerard Rushton
Places, People and Contexts - David Ley
Memories and Desires - David Harvey
Understanding the Heart of Place... - Robin A. Kearns
Personal and Political - Vera Chouinard
How I Became a Geographer - Michael F. Goodchild
Movement and Encounter - Lawrence Knopp
Spaces and Flows - Janice Monk
Setting Out - Nigel Thrift
Part III: PRACTICES
Mapping and Geovisualization - Martin Dodge
Quantification, Evidence and Positivism - A. Stewart Fotheringham
Geographic Information Systems - Michael F. Goodchild
Humanism and People-Centered Methods - Paul Rodaway
To Build Another World: Activism in the Light of Marxist Geographic Thought - Michael Samers, Patrick Bigger and Oliver Belcher
Producing Feminist Geographies: Theory, Methodologies and Research Strategies - Kim England
Poststructuralist Approaches: Deconstruction and Discourse Analysis - John W. Wylie
Pricing Dignity: Psychoanalytical Frameworks and the Burden of Proof - Maureen Sioh
Research is Theft: Environmental Inquiry in a Postcolonial World - Paul Robbins
Contested Geographies: Culture Wars, Personal Clashes and Joining Debate - Gill Valentine and Stuart C. Aitken

Relazione

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 of this book. 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stuart Aitken, Stuart C C Valentine Aitken, Stuart C Valentine Aitken, Stuart C. Aitken, Stuart Valentine Aitken, Gill Valentine
• Con la collaborazione di: Stuart Aitken (Editore), Stuart C Aitken (Editore), Stuart C C Aitken (Editore), Stuart C. Aitken (Editore), Gill Valentine (Editore), Valentine Gill (Editore)
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9781446276020
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-7602-0
• Pagine: 456
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Human Geography