ABSTRACT
This book presents a series of personal visions for the future of human geography. Before introducing each chapter, I want to dwell briefly on this interconnection between the personal, the subject and the visionary agenda, because it seems important to recognise that the ‘subject’ of human geography is very much to be found at the interstices of individual human geographers and the collectivity of their and others’ work. To identify stimulating futures for human geography, then, will at least in part entail a recognition of the kinds of intellectual, ideological, aesthetic and everyday prompts which fire the personal human geographical imagination. An understanding of why we are interested in particular subjects/objects/modes of human geographical study will not solely be found in the quality and persuasiveness of the canon of study which already exists, important though that is. Such an understanding will also demand some scrutiny of the subjectivities, identities, positionalities and situated knowledges that we as individuals bring to the collectivity of that canon.
