By Noel Castree, Alisdair Rogers, Douglas Sherman
Wondering Geography introduces scholars to the elemental debates that animate geography today.Each of the chapters makes a speciality of a key factor that has divided or galvanised geographers of their paintings. Covers either human and actual geography. comprises essay questions and proposals for extra studying. Demonstrates to scholars the uniqueness and energy of contemporary geography.
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2000) Real Science: What It Is, and What It Means. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 3 What Difference Does Difference Make to Geography? Katherine McKittrick and Linda Peake Ron Johnston in Chapter 1 argues persuasively that the discipline of Geography no longer has any recognized core but rather is characterized by its ‘diversity and divergence’ in the sense that its sub-disciplines are running off in all directions, creating communities of researchers that simultaneously look inwards to their own areas of specialization while also stretching out, making contact with researchers in other disciplines.