Envisioning Human Geographies

Bringing together many of the leading human geographers from around the English-speaking world, "Envisioning Human Geographies" offers a series of personal visions for the future of human geography. The result is a vigorous and far-sighted debate about what human geography could and should be concerned with in the twenty-first century. The individual contributors develop their arguments to address the shape and direction of human geographies, with each chapter looking forward and envisioning an intellectual future for the subject. The result is a set of powerful statements written around the themes of: space; nature; enclosure; political-economy; non-representation; post-colonialism; feminism; post-structuralism; computation; morality; spirituality; and, activism. The statements are tied via an introduction that discusses the ideological, academic and aesthetic prompts that fire the human geographical imagination. "Envisioning Human Geographies" maps out important new territories of enquiry for human geography, and is essential reading for all students studying the nature and philosophy of the subject.

ISBN 0340720123   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780340720127 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Hodder Education   Weight (grammes) 461 Imprint Hodder Arnold   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Arnold Publication Publication date 06 Nov 2003   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress GF41.E555   Width (mm) 155 DEWEY 304.2   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate

		Introduction by Paul Cloke		1
Ch. 1		Space and substance in geography by Neil Smith		11
Ch. 2		Engaging ecologies by Margaret Fitzsimmons		30
Ch. 3		Enclosure: a modern spatiality of nature by Michael J. Watts		48
Ch. 4		Recovering the future: a post-disciplinary perspective on geography and political economy by Mark Goodwin		65
Ch. 5		Summoning Life by Nigel Thrift		81
Ch. 6		Postcolonial geographies: spatial narratives of inequality and interconnection by Catherine Nash		104
Ch. 7		Feminist geographies: spatialising feminist politics by Geraldine Pratt		128
Ch. 8		Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection by Marcus A. Doel		146
Ch. 9		Computing geographical futures by John Pickles		172
Ch. 10		Morality, ethics and social justice by David M. Smith		195
Ch. 11		Deliver us from evil? Prospects for living ethically and acting politically in human geography by Paul Cloke		210
Ch. 12		Activist geographies: building possible worlds by Sue Ruddick		229

... offer geographers and social scientists an insight into what makes this discipline more thank just an account of "notions of space". -- The Times Higher Education Supplement 20050501

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