Questioning Geography Fundamental Debates

Questioning Geography introduces students to the fundamental debates that animate geography today. Each of the chapters focuses on a key issue that has divided or galvanised geographers in their work. Covers both human and physical geography. Includes essay questions and suggestions for further reading. Demonstrates to students the distinctiveness and vitality of modern geography.

Noel Castree is Reader in Geography at Manchester University. He is co-editor of Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (1998) and Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics (Blackwell, 2001) and co-author of Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographies of Labour (2004).

Ali Rogers is Fellow by Special Election at Keble College, Oxford. He is co-editor of The Student’s Companion to Geography (Second Edition, Blackwell, 2002) and editor of Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs.

Doug Sherman is Professor and Head of the Geography Department at Texas A&M University. A researcher on coastal and aeolian environments, he has written about ‘fashion dudes’ in geomorphology and has taught the history of ideas in physical geography for many years.

List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Questioning Geography
The 'Nature' of Geography
Geography-Coming Apart at the Seams?
A Divided Discipline? Heather Viles
What Difference Does Difference Make to Geography?
Approaches in Geography
Is Geography a Science?
Beyond Science? Human Geography, Interpretation and Critique
Key Debates in Geography
General/Particular
Representation/Reality
Meta-Theory/Many Theories
The Practice of Geography
Cartography and Visualization
Models, Modelling and Geography
Ethnography and Fieldwork
Counting and Measuring
Theory and Theorizing
The Uses of Geography
A Policy-Relevant Geography for Society?
Whose Geography? Education as Politics
Index
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