Summary
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Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in Human Geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge – the text is written for students who have not met philosophical or theoretical approaches before. This is a beginning guide to geographic research and practice.
Places and Contexts
Places and Contexts
Intellectual knowledge, like other social phenomena, emerges from the intersection of imagination, practice, and context. In this short essay I shall outline the places and (some of the) people who have shaped my own academic development. This autobiographical account exemplifies my research bent of tracing the relations between place and identity, extending it to my own formation as a social and cultural geographer.
Early Influences: From Swansea to Windsor
Where does biology end and social context begin? Was it the promptings of DNA or some tribal conformity which prescribed that in my extended family five of the seven university entrants up to my generation studied geography? And was childhood stamp-collecting – as others have noted, an early indicator of a geographical predisposition ...
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