Description
Book SynopsisA unique assessment of the current state and future direction of human geography. A major book that includes especially written contributions by internationally respected figures in the field. Accessible and wide-ranging, it will be widely read by students and academics.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors.
Preface.
Part I The 'Nature' of Human Geography: .
1. Issues and Debates: Doreen Massey.
Hybrid Geographies: rethinking the 'human' in human geography: Sarah Whatmore.
Part II: Imaginative Geographies.
Introduction.
3. Imagined Geographies: geographical knowledge of the self and other in everyday life: Gill Valentine.
4. Situating Geopolitical Representations: inside/outside and the power of imperial interventions: David Slater.
5. Collective Wish Images: geographical imaginaries and the crisis of national development: Michael John Watts.
Part III: Geography and Difference.
Introduction.
6. Creating Geographies of Difference: David Sibley.
7. The Cultural Politics of Difference: Susan J. Smith.
8. Geographies of Identity and Difference: marking boundaries: Geraldine Pratt.
Part IV: Spatialities of Power.
Introduction.
9. The New Geopolitics of Power: John Agnew.
10. Spatial Assemblages of Power: from domination to empowerment: John Allen.
11. Popular and State Discourses of Power: Sarah Radcliffe.
Part V: Re-thinking Space and Place. .
Introduction.
12. Performing Space: Gillian Rose.
13. Thirdspace: Expanding the Scope of the Geographical Imagination: Edward W. Soja.
14. Spaces of Politics: Doreen Massey.
15. Steps to an Ecology of Place: Nigel Thrift.
Afterword: Open Geographies: John Allen.
Index.
