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Approaches to Human Geography is the essential student primer on theory and practice in Human Geography. It is a systematic review of the key ideas and debates informing post-war geography, explaining how those ideas work in practice. 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. This is a beginning guide to geographic research and practice.
Research is Theft: Environmental Inquiry in a Postcolonial World
Research is Theft: Environmental Inquiry in a Postcolonial World
One afternoon while I was doing research on forest cover outside a wildlife preserve in rural India, an old woman yelled at me over the thorn fence at the back of her house: ‘You are writing down things about the forest so someone can come take it!’
Recording, interpreting, and analyzing the world is a way to appropriate it and control it. The terms and narratives used to describe social and environmental conditions serve to define the range of debate and to enclose its possibilities. If carried out by people with institutional authority and power (e.g. foreign researchers), such accounts can become the stuff of policy that dramatically impinges ...
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