ABSTRACT
For human geographers a vast array of new possibilities appeared on the horizon as thereafter housed in faculties of social science and they gleefully adapted their research to the changing paradigmatic winds which blew through the halls of social science during the latter half of the twentieth century. Geography lies at the heart of scholarly traditions in many world civilisations, inviting enquiry into the nature of the universe and the dynamics of planet Earth, prompting exploration and adventure, the naming and claiming of territory, and theories about relationships between human societies and their environments. As an academic discipline and formal course in universities and schools, geography has acquired other histories, few uncontested. Tensions between scholarly integrity and the structural imperatives of disciplinary identity have at times led to an ignoring of the lived geographies of everyday life, and the contradictions which sometimes underlie taken-for-granted ways of life and designed environments.
