Geography And Geographers: Anglo-american Human Geography Since 1945

Geography and Geographers Geography and Geographers provides a survey of the major debates, key thinkers and schools of thought in human geography in the English-speaking world, setting them within the context of economic, social, cultural and political, as well as intellectual, changes. It focuses on the debates among geographers regarding what their discipline should study and how that should be done, and draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a seventy-year period characterised by both growth in the number of academic geographers and substantial shifts in conceptions of the discipline’s scientific rationale. The pace and volume of change within the discipline show little sign of diminishing; this seventh edition covers new literature and important developments over the past decade. An insightful and reflective examination of the field from within, Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume overview of the field of human geography. This seventh edition has also been extensively revised and updated to reflect developments in the ways that geography and its history are understood and taught. Providing a thoroughly contemporary perspective, the book maintains its standing as the essential resource for students and researchers across the field. Ron Johnston is Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol. James D. Sidaway is Professor of Political Geography at the National University of Singapore. Praise for the fifth edition of Geography and Geographers: ‘[Geography and Geographers] has probably done more to shape human geographers’ collective sense of what geography is and has been about than any other single source.’ Murray Low, Political Geography (2004) Praise for this edition of Geography and Geographers: ‘This new edition of Geography and Geographers is especially welcome. By providing what the authors call “wider discussions of the contexts” within which geographical endeavour has been located, it shows that the historical geography of geography has come of age. As a working map of the territory, this is a superlative piece of intellectual cartography that no geographer wanting to orientate themselves can afford to be without.’ Professor David N. Livingstone, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland ‘Geography and Geographers is a living classic. It provides a compelling and subtle narrative of the key intellectual shifts shaping contemporary geography, one that is sensitive to the range of factors that shape academic knowledge. An invaluable resource for scholars from students to professors, and an intellectual achievement in its own right.’ Professor Clive Barnett, Professor of Geography and Social Theory, University of Exeter, UK ‘Tony Blair once said that the Beatles produced the “music that was the background of our lives”. Geography and Geographers is the constant in the background of the busy and changing life of geography. You can always count on it, and it is a comforting and reassuring presence. Like the Beatles’ music you never tir