ABSTRACT
We started this book by talking about how beginning to study Human Geography at the university level involved confronting unfamiliar ideas and topics. But Human Geography is never just a distant body of knowledge that you have to be introduced to. It is part of your life already, and it is something you can contribute to. It is not just ‘ours’ on this side of the word processor, but yours too. You are doing and thinking about Human Geography already. Those of us lucky enough to teach the subject know that we don’t just pass ideas on to our students. The ways they respond to the ideas we present, the arguments they raise, the examples they talk about, all end up making us rethink those ideas. Human Geography is, or certainly should be, a meeting ground for many voices, not a series of monologues. It has therefore been our intention that much of the material in this book should intersect with the everyday lives of those who read it.
