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'
chapter 2|17 pages
‘Sow What You Know: The Struggle for Social Reproduction in Rural Sudan'
chapter 3|29 pages
‘The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England'
chapter 4|7 pages
Preface to ‘Wrecking a Region'
chapter 5|23 pages
‘The Informational Economy and the New International Division of Labor'
chapter 6|32 pages
‘The Shock of Modernity: Petroleum, Protest, and Fast Capitalism in an Industrializing Society'
part 2|80 pages
What Difference Does Geography Make?
chapter 7|21 pages
Neo-Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks'
chapter 8|19 pages
‘The Production of Service Space'
chapter 9|30 pages
‘The “Magic of the Mail”: An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment'
chapter 10|5 pages
‘Economies of Signs and Space'
part 3|103 pages
Geographical Identities
chapter 12|18 pages
‘Social Landscapes: Continuity and Change'
chapter 13|18 pages
‘Landscape with Figures: Home and Community in English Society'
chapter 14|17 pages
‘Outsiders in Society and Space'
chapter 15|17 pages
‘Street Life: The Politics of Carnival'
part 4|105 pages
Geographical Representations
chapter 17|20 pages
‘Geography's Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge'
chapter 18|18 pages
‘Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy'
chapter 19|17 pages
‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power'
chapter 20|25 pages
‘Mapping the Modern City: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham Novels'
chapter 21|21 pages
‘Contested Global Visions: One-World, Whole-Earth, and the Apollo Space Photographs'
part 5|54 pages
Re-Visioning Human Geography