ABSTRACT
This was an important argument to advance at that point in the history of geography’s self-reflection. We were emerging from a period – highly productive and necessary – in which the dominant emphasis had been on the social construction of the spatial. Our theme-tune then was that ‘the spatial’ (human geography, the geography of society) was socially constructed. There was no separate realm of ‘the spatial’, as some had previously been inclined to argue; rather, in order to analyse the geographies which we saw around us it was necessary to understand the social processes which had produced them. Geographers must be versed in sociology, in economics, in cultural theory. And we set about that task with a vengeance.
