Practising Human Geography - Brossura

Paul Cloke; Ian Cook; Philip Crang; Mark Goodwin; Joe Painter

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ISBN 10: 0761973001 ISBN 13: 9780761973003

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

Practising Human Geography is critical introduction to disciplinary debates about the practice of human geography, that is informed by an inquiry into how geographers actually do research. In examining those methods and practices that are integral to doing geography, the text presents a theoretically-informed reflection on the construction and interpretation of geographical data - including factual and "fictional" sources; the use of core research methodologies; and the interpretative role of the researcher.

Framed by an historical overview how ideas of practising human geography have changed, the following three sections offer an comprehensive and integrated overview of research methodologies. Illustrated throughout, the te

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Ian Cook et al is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter in the UK. As an undergraduate student at University College London in the 1980s, he stumbled across the tiny tradition of experiential geography in a module taught by Jacqui Burgess and Peter Jackson and went to the University of Kentucky as a master’s student to learn how this was done from its main advocate Graham Rowles. Returning to the UK in the early 1990s to undertake a multisited ethnographic “follow the thing” PhD at the University of Bristol, he and fellow PhD student Mike Crang wrote a “how to” “Doing ethnographies” (1995) booklet for the Institute of British Geographers’ Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography (CATMOG) series. Scanned and posted online, a scribbled-on version was read and referred to in a surprising variety of publications as geography took its cultural (and ethnographic) turn. After SAGE bought the CATMOG series in the early 2000s, Mike and Ian were able to finish and publish it as a book in 2007.

Professor Joe Painter focuses mainly on the prosaic geographies of the state.

Chris Philo is a professor of geography at the University of Glasgow. His specialist interest is the historical geography of “spaces reserved for insanity,” meaning people with mental health problems, across many centuries in Britain. He is fascinated by the history and theory of geography, as both academic subject and wider way of engaging with the world. He has undertaken critical-scholarly research on the geographies of “outsider” human groupings, including children and people with learning disabilities, as well as on the geographies of human-animal relations, rural geographies, and a range of health geographies. He has long been concerned with what psychoanalytic and psychological approaches can bring to geographical studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761973001
• ISBN 13: 9780761973003
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Redattore: Cloke Paul J.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile