ABSTRACT
A lively and stimulating resource for all first year students of human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a principal aim of this book is to present a view of the subject which is theoretically informed and yet recognises that any view is partial, contingent and subject to change.
The extracts selected are accessible and raise issues of method and theory as well as fact. The editors have chosen articles that not only represent main currents in the present flow of academic geography but which are also responsive to developments outside of the discipline. Their selection contains a mixture of established and recent writings and each section features a contextualizing introduction and detailed suggestions for further reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|145 pages
Making and Breaking Geographies
chapter 1|26 pages
‘Monument and Myth'
Reprinted in full from: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 69, 362–81 (1979)
chapter 2|17 pages
‘Sow What You Know: The Struggle for Social Reproduction in Rural Sudan'
Excerpts from: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 81, 488–514 (1991)
chapter 3|29 pages
‘The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England'
Reprinted in full from Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 9, 145–67 (1984)
chapter 4|7 pages
Preface to ‘Wrecking a Region'
Excerpts from: R. Hudson, Wrecking a Region: State Policies, Party Politics and Regional Charge in North East England. London: Pion (1989)
chapter 5|23 pages
‘The Informational Economy and the New International Division of Labor'
Reprinted in full from: M. Carnoy, M. Castells, S. S. Cohen and F. H. Cardoso (eds), The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections on our Changing World, Chapter 2. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press (1989)
chapter 6|32 pages
‘The Shock of Modernity: Petroleum, Protest, and Fast Capitalism in an Industrializing Society'
Excerpts from: A. Pred and M. J. Watts, Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent, Chapter 2. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992)
part 2|80 pages
What Difference Does Geography Make?
chapter 7|21 pages
Neo-Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks'
Reprinted from: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16, 571–87 (1992)
chapter 8|19 pages
‘The Production of Service Space'
Excerpts from: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 12, 453–75 (1994)
chapter 9|30 pages
‘The “Magic of the Mail”: An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment'
Excerpts from: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 83, 18–47 (1993)
chapter 10|5 pages
‘Economies of Signs and Space'
Excerpts from: S. Lash and J. Urry, Economies of Signs and Space, pp. 198–203. London: Sage (1994)
part 3|103 pages
Geographical Identities
chapter 12|18 pages
‘Social Landscapes: Continuity and Change'
Reprinted in full from: R. J. Johnston (ed.), The Challenge for Geography, pp. 54–75. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (1993)
chapter 13|18 pages
‘Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society'
Excerpts from: J. Mitchell and A. Oakley (eds). The Rights and Wrongs of Women, Chapter 4. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books (1977)
chapter 14|17 pages
‘Outsiders in Society and Space'
Reprinted in full from: K. Anderson and F. Gale (eds), Inventing Places: Studies in Cultural Geography, Chapter 7. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire (1992)
chapter 15|17 pages
‘Street Life: The Politics of Carnival'
Reprinted in full from: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 6, 213–27 (1988)
part 4|105 pages
Geographical Representations
chapter 17|20 pages
‘Geography's Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge'
Reprinted in full, save for one illustration, from: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 10, 23–40 (1992)
chapter 18|18 pages
‘Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy'
Reprinted in full from: Political Geography 11, 190–204 (1992)
chapter 19|17 pages
‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power'
Excerpts from: D. Cosgrove and S. Daniels (eds), The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1988)
chapter 20|25 pages
‘Mapping the Modern City: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham Novels'
Excerpts from: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 18, 460–480 (1993)
chapter 21|21 pages
‘Contested Global Visions: One-World, Whole-Earth, and the Apollo Space Photographs'
Excerpts from: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84, 270–94 (1994)
part 5|54 pages
Re-Visioning Human Geography
chapter 22|23 pages
‘Between Space and Time: Reflections on the Geographical Imagination'
Reprinted in full from: Annals of the Association of Geographers 80, 418–34 (1990)
chapter 23|14 pages
‘To Claim the High Ground: Geography for the End of the Century'
Reprinted in full from: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 12, 327–36 (1987)
chapter 24|15 pages
‘Towards a Feminist Historiography of Geography'
Reprinted in full from: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 16, 95–104 (1991)
