ABSTRACT

This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences.

Human Geography and Professional Mobility seeks to encourage, influence, and help students understand geographic concepts based on critical reflections, international experiences, and practical insight laid out in stories of real people, real geographers, and real college faculty, that students can relate to. This volume is less theoretical and more personal insight-based, wherein first-hand and personal accounts of practical experiences are explored, which renders the text supplementary reading for human geography, population geography, world geography, and migration/mobility classes. 

With critical navigation of spaces in response to several geographical questions, this book offers a novel perspective on professional mobility of geographers which will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of geography, tourism, sociology, and anthropology.

chapter 2|12 pages

Population geographies of Brazil

A geographer’s personal and professional viewpoints

chapter 3|10 pages

Migration

How international fieldwork helped me embrace my immigrant identity

chapter 4|11 pages

Geography of a life

A woman’s journey in place and culture

chapter 5|18 pages

Working among regions

Understanding identity and ethnicity in a globalized world through India and its diaspora

chapter 6|11 pages

Engaging in fieldwork in Paris

chapter 7|13 pages

Seeking sense of place

Reflections on study abroad, becoming an international geographer, and living a mobile lifestyle

chapter 8|11 pages

Doing linguistic geography research

Field experiences from Galicia, Spain

chapter 9|15 pages

Political geography

Sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and governance in an island context

chapter 11|14 pages

A secret affair

Researching Ireland’s Catholic Mass Rocks

chapter 12|11 pages

Urban and environmental geographies

Challenges and successes of fieldwork in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

chapter 14|9 pages

Framing your own narratives

Reflecting on personal and professional development