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Gregory & Castree~Vol 1 Prelims.Indd The University of Manchester Research Human geography Link to publication record in Manchester Research Explorer Citation for published version (APA): Castree, N., & Gregory, D. (2011). Human geography. In Human geography (1 ed., pp. 1-52). Sage Publications Ltd. Published in: Human geography Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on Manchester Research Explorer is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Proof version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the Research Explorer are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Takedown policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please refer to the University of Manchester’s Takedown Procedures [http://man.ac.uk/04Y6Bo] or contact [email protected] providing relevant details, so we can investigate your claim. Download date:08. Oct. 2021 Contents i HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ii Contents SAGE Fundamentals of Geography is a series of authoritative major works in Human Geography and Physical Geography edited by internationally recognised scholars. The first two in the series are overview volumes on these two main sub- ject areas. Taken together, these two sets demonstrate what is singular about the geographical imagination and the unique contribution its diverse perspectives makes to human science and natural science, as well as the link it provides between the human and the natural. Derek Gregory is Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geog- raphy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The author of Geographical Imaginations and The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, he has been an editor for all five editions of the Dictionary of Human Geography. In 2006 he received the Founder’s Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. His current research focuses on late modern war; he is currently completing a new book, The Everywhere War, and is conducting research into the techno-cultural and political history of bombing of Europe in the Second World War, Indochina and Afghanistan-Pakistan. Noel Castree is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. He has published many essays and books on the conceptual infrastructure of human geography, notably the ideas of ‘nature’, ‘place’, ‘scale’ and ‘space-time’. He also has long standing interests in how research and teaching in human geography is affected by the changing nature of university governance. He is the author of Making Sense of Nature (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor, with Derek Gregory, of David Harvey: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 2006). SAGE FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOGRAPHY Contents iii HUMAN GEOGRAPHY VOLUME I Edited by Derek Gregory and Noel Castree Los Angeles | London | New Delhi Singapore | Washington DC iv Contents © Introduction and editorial arrangement by Derek Gregory and Noel Castree, 2012 First published 2012 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. 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SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B 1/I 1, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area Mathura Road New Delhi 110 044 SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd 3 Church Street #10-04 Samsung Hub Singapore 049483 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-4129-0369-1 (set of five volumes) Library of Congress Control Number: 2011927925 Typeset by Star Compugraphics Private Limited, Delhi Printed on paper from sustainable resources Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall Contents v Contents Appendix of Sources xiii Editors’ Introduction: Human Geography xxv Derek Gregory and Noel Castree Volume I Part I: Histories, Philosophies and Politics – Section Heading z Histories of Geographical Knowledges z Philosophies in Human Geography z Situated Knowledges z Politics and Ethics in Human Geography z Intra-disciplinary Divides and Debates Histories of Geographical Knowledges 1. Tropical Hermeneutics and the Climatic Imagination 3 David N. Livingstone 2. Writing Travels: Power, Knowledge and Ritual on the English East India Company’s Early Voyages 35 Miles Ogborn 3. The Political Pivot of Geography 61 Gerry Kearns 4. Between Regions: Science, Militarism, and American Geography from World War to Cold War 79 Trevor J. Barnes and Matthew Farish 5. The Meaning and Social Origins of Discourse on the Spatial Foundations of Society 113 Allen J. Scott Philosophies in Human Geography 6. The Culture of Epistemology 131 Ulf Strohmayer 7. Postmodernist Thought in Geography: A Realist View 151 Andrew Sayer 8. Strategic Positivism 175 Elvin Wyly 9. Spatialising the Subject of Feminism 193 Geraldine Pratt vi Contents Situated Knowledges 10. Cook’s Tour: Anthropology and Geography 219 Derek Gregory 11. Situating Knowledges: Positionality, Reflexivities and Other Tactics 237 Gillian Rose 12. The Limits of Responsibility: A Postcolonial Politics of Academic Knowledge Production 257 Tariq Jazeel and Colin McFarlane Politics and Ethics in Human Geography 13. Social Justice Revisited 285 David M. Smith 14. Development Ethics: Distance, Difference, Plausibility 303 Stuart Corbridge 15. Poststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community 327 E. Jeffrey Popke 16. Practical Orientalism – Bodies, Everyday Life and the Construction of Otherness 349 Michael Haldrup, Lasse Koefoed and Kirsten Simonsen Volume II Part I: Histories, Philosophies and Politics (Continued) – Section Heading z Intra-disciplinary Divides and Debates Part II: Theories, Methods and Practices – Section Heading z Theory and Theorizing z Numbering, Modelling and Interpreting z Fieldwork z Maps and Mappings z Visuality and Visual Methods z Researching and Intervening Intra-disciplinary Divides and Debates 17. Geography as an Art 3 Donald W. Meinig 18. Geographical Information Science 23 Michael F. Goodchild 19. Geography – Coming Apart at the Seams? 41 Ron Johnston Contents vii 20. Beyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies 57 Mei-Po Kwan Part II: Theories, Methods and Practices Theory and Theorizing 21. Towards Minor Theory 73 Cindi Katz 22. Understanding Diversity: The Problem of/for “Theory” 89 Linda McDowell 23. Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies 103 Ann Markusen Numbering, Modelling and Interpreting 24. From Models to Marx: Notes on the Project to ‘Remodel’ Contemporary Geography 133 David Harvey 25. Quantitative Geography: Representations, Practices, and Possibilities 139 Eric Sheppard 26. Arguments for a Humanistic Geography 165 Stephen Daniels 27. Denaturalizing Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism 179 Gillian Hart Fieldwork 28. Masculinist Epistemologies and the Politics of Fieldwork in Latin Americanist Geography 209 Juanita Sundberg 29. For Ethnography 225 Steve Herbert 30. “The Rigours of an Arctic Experiment”: The Precarious Authority of Field Practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958–1970 247 Richard C. Powell Maps and Mappings 31. Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking 271 Matthew H. Edney 32. Subverting Cartography: The Situationists and Maps of the City 297 David Pinder 33. Rethinking Maps 325 Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge viii Contents Visuality and Visual Methods 34. Visuality 345 Fraser MacDonald 35. Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research 357 Mei-Po Kwan 36. Imagining Geographies of Film 385 Stuart C. Aitken and Deborah P. Dixon 37. Digging into Google Earth: An Analysis of “Crisis in Darfur” 405 Lisa Parks Volume III Part II: Theories, Methods and Practices (Continued) – Section Heading z Researching and Intervening Part III: Space, Place and Landscape – Section Heading z Theorizing Space z Globalization and Geographical Scale z Places and Everyday Life z Landscapes z Regions z Territory and Borderlands Researching and Intervening 38. Geography and Public Policy: The Case of the Missing Agenda 3 Ron Martin 39. “Give up Activism” and Change the World in Unknown Ways: Or, Learning to Walk with Others on Uncommon Ground 29 Paul Chatterton 40. Participatory GIS – A People’s GIS? 51 Christine E. Dunn 41. Radical Scholarship: A Polemic on Making a Difference Outside the Academy 79 Don Mitchell Part III: Space,
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