Comprehensive and accessible, it will be the core text for courses on Approaches to Human Geography Philosophy and Geography and the History of Geography and a key resource for students beginning research projects. This is a beginning guide to geographic research and practice. Student Exercises and Glossary Avoiding jargon - while attentive to the rigor and complexity of the ideas that underlie geographic knowledge – the text is written for students who have not met philosophical or theoretical approaches before.Practices: applied accounts of Quantification, Evidence and Positivism Geographic Information Systems Humanism Geography, Political Activism, and Marxism the Production of Feminist Geographies Poststructuralist Theory Environmental Inquiry in a Postcolonial World Contested Geographies.People: prominent geographers explain events that formed their ways of knowing the section offers situated accounts of theory and practice by, for example: David Ley Linda McDowell and David Harvey.Philosophies: written by the principal proponents, easily comprehensible accounts of: Positivistic Geographies Humanism Feminist Geographies Marxism Structuration Theory Behavioral Geography Realism Post Structuralist Theories Actor-Network Theory and Post Colonialism.A comprehensive contexualising essay: Introducing Philosophies, People and Practices.It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in human geography.
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