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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.
Humanism and Democratic Place-Making
Humanism and Democratic Place-Making
Introduction
Humanistic geographers study topics such as the cultural construction of place and landscape, the cartography of everyday life, the power of language and meaning to create and transform environments, place and identity, religious symbolism and landscape, and geographical myths and narratives (Ley and Samuels, 1978; Adams et al., 2001a). Common to all of these research interests is a concern with understanding meaningful, humanly authored worlds (Tuan, 1976). Beginning students in geography may recognize these topics as part of their course work and readings and wonder why they may never have been taught about humanistic geography. How could a geographical orientation that has been associated with so many themes of current interest be relegated primarily ...
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