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The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

A refreshingly innovative approach to charting geographical knowledge. A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement. This creative and comprehensive book offers an extremely valuable tool to professionals and students alike.
- Victoria Lawson, University of Washington

"A Handbook that recasts geograph's history in original, thought-provoking ways. Eschewing the usual chronological march through leading figures and big ideas, it looks at geography against the backdrop of the places and institutional contexts where it has been produced, and the social-cum-intellectual currents underlying some of its most important concepts."
- Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon

The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge is a critical inquiry into how geography as a field of knowledge has been produced, re-produced, and re-imagined.

It comprises three sections on geographical orientations, geography's venues, and critical geographical concepts and controversies. The first provides an overview of the genealogy of "geography". The second highlights the types of spatial settings and locations in which geographical knowledge has been produced. The third focuses on venues of primary importance in the historical geography of geographical thought.

• Orientations includes chapters on: Geography - the Genealogy of a Term; Geography's Narratives and Intellectual History
• Geography's Venues includes chapters on: Field; Laboratory; Observatory; Archive; Centre of Calculation; Mission Station; Battlefield; Museum; Public Sphere; Subaltern Space; Financial Space; Art Studio; Botanical/Zoological Gardens; Learned Societies
• Critical concepts and controversies - includes chapters on: Environmental Determinism; Region; Place; Nature and Culture; Development; Conservation; Geopolitics; Landscape; Time; Cycle of Erosion; Time; Gender; Race/Ethnicity; Social Class; Spatial Analysis; Glaciation; Ice Ages; Map; Climate Change; Urban/Rural.

Comprehensive without claiming to be encyclopedic, textured and nuanced, this Handbook will be a key resource for all researchers with an interest in the pasts, presents and futures of geography.

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Autor

John A. Agnew is Professor of Geography at UCLA, and a former president of the Association of American Geographers (2008-9). He was awarded the Distinguished Scholarship Award by the Association of American Geographers in 2006, and in 2007 was awarded the UCLA Award in Distinguished Teaching. Recently published books include Globalization and Sovereignty (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), The Geography of the World Economy Fifth Edition (Hodder 2008) and with Michael Shin, Berlusconi′s Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008). He is particularly well known for his work in the field of geopolitics, and has written extensively (and to critical acclaim) on political and economic geography. David Livingstone is Professor of Geography & Intellectual History at Queen′s University, Belfast, and is Vice-President (Research) of the Royal Geographical Society. He has written countless articles for leading academic journals, and numerous books over the last twenty years, the most recent of which is Adam′s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). He was appointed an OBE for his services to Geography and History in 2002.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446209547
• Artikelnr.: 38407930