Key Texts in Human Geography

by Phil Hubbard

• ISBN13: 9781412922609
• ISBN10: 1412922607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-05
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

'œAn essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core.' -Barney Warf, Florida State University 'œ Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals'¦' -James D. Sidaway, School of Geography, University of Plymouth A unique resource for students, Key Texts in Human Geography provides concise but rigorous overviews of the key texts that have formed post-war human geography. The text has been designed as a student-friendly guide that will: explain the text in relation to the geographical debates at the time of writing discuss the text's main arguments and sources of evidence review the initial reception, subsequent evaluation, and continued influence of each key texts contribution to how geographers understand space and placeIntended Audience: Written in a clear and accessible way, by acknowledged scholars of the texts, an essential resources for undergraduates, Key Texts in Human Geography will be widely used and highly cited in courses on methods and approaches in geography.

Table of Contents

Torsten Hagerstrand

'Innovation Diffusion as Spatial Process' (1953)

'Theoretical Geography' (1962)

'Locational Analysis in Human Geography' (1965)

'Explanation in Geography' (1969)

'Conflict, Power and Politics in the City' (1973)

'Place and Placelessness' (1976)

'Space and Place' (1977)

'The Limits to Capital' (1982)

'Uneven Development' (1984)

'Spatial Divisions of Labour' (1984)

Women in Geography Study Group

'Geography and Gender' (1984)

'Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape' (1984)

'Capitalist World Development' (1986)

'Global Shift' (1986)

'The Condition of Postmodernity' (1989)

'Postmodern Geographies' (1989)

'The Capitalist Imperative' (1989)

'The Geographic Tradition' (1992)

'Feminism and Geography' (1992)

'Geographical Imaginations' (1995)

'Geographies of Exclusion' (1995)

'Critical Geopolitics' (1996)

'Logics of Dislocation' (1996)

'Hybrid Geographies' (2002)

'Cities' (2002)

'For Space' (2005)

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