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Noel Castree has worked at the universities of Manchester, Wollongong and Liverpool, and the University of Technology Sydney. He's managing editor of the journals Progress in Human Geography and Environment & Planning F. He is author of the books What Future For the Earth? (2025) and Making Sense of Nature (2013).
Trevor Barnes is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he has been since 1983. His research is in economic geography and on the post-War history of human geography. He is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.
Jennifer Salmond is Professor Physical Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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What is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and why? How do they seek to shape the world they interrogate?
This book addresses these questions by examining the lives and works of individual geographers, both past and present.
Contenu
1.Introduction
Noel Castree, Trevor Barnes and Jenny Salmond
Part 1 - Making Geography
2.Absolute beginner? Halford Mackinder and the popularization of geographical knowledge
Emily Hayes
3.Geography as the science of environmental influences: Ellen Semple and the search for disciplinary relevance
Innes M. Keighren
4.Keeping human and physical geography together: Richard Chorley and Peter Haggett's scientific turn
Trevor Barnes
5.Contemporary geography: Advocating for a heterodox subject
Rita Gardner
Part 2 Making geographical knowledge
6.Landscape and environmental change: Carl Sauer on land and life
Kent Mathewson
7.From mapping to GIScience: A sixty-year project
Michael F. Goodchild
8.Radicalizing geography: The case of David Harvey's Marxism
Eric Sheppard
9.Open horizons from here to there: Doreen Massey's geographies
Jamie Peck
10.Geographies of meaning and experience: Anne Buttimer's lifeworld
Federico Ferretti
*11.*Landscape as a way of seeing: Denis Cosgrove's symbolic geographies
Veronica della Dora
12.Boundaries and borders matter: Ron Johnston's electoral geography
Charles J. Pattie
13.Mobility matters: Movement, meaning and practice in the context of power
Tim Cresswell
14.Scale matters: The case of workers and their geographies
Andrew Herod
15.Proximity, distance, and difference: The global and the intimate
Gerry Pratt
16.Which realities are we trying to understand? The workings of a physical geographer in the quest to respect river diversity
Gary Brierley
17.Beyond science: Climate change in a 'wicked world'
Mike Hulme
18.'Other' geographies: Engaging with different ways of knowing, valuing, and acting in post-colonial Australia
Sue Jackson
Part 3 Making geographical knowledge matter beyond Geography
19.Geographers and the national state: Dudley Stamp plans Britain's towns and countryside
Trevor Barnes
20.Geographically empowering the marginalized: Bill Bunge, expeditions and maps
Luke Bergmann and Trevor Barnes
21.Making other economies possible: Geographies of ethical action
Katherine Gibson
22.Speaking truth to power: Microplastics and the sewage scandal from the rivers of Manchester to Westminster
Jamie Woodward
23.Talking geography in the public realm
Danny Dorling