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Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates

Noel Castree (Editor), Alisdair Rogers (Editor), Douglas Sherman (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0192-9
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330 pages
November 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Questioning Geography. (Douglas Sherman, Alisdair Rogers and Noel Castree).

Part I: The ‘Nature’ of Geography.

1. Geography-Coming Apart at the Seams? (Ron Johnston).

2. A Divided Discipline? Heather Viles.

3. What Difference Does Difference Make to Geography? (Katherine McKittrick and Linda Peake).

Part II: Approaches in Geography.

5. Is Geography a Science? (Noel Castree).

6. Beyond Science? Human Geography, Interpretation and Critique. (Maureen Hickey and Vicky Lawson).

Part III: Key Debates in Geography.

8. General/Particular. (Tim Burt).

9. Representation/Reality. (Matthew Hannah).

10. Meta-Theory/Many Theories. (Michael Curry).

Part IV: The Practice of Geography.

11. Cartography and Visualization. (Scott Orford).

12. Models, Modelling and Geography. (David Demeritt and John Wainwright).

13.Ethnography and Fieldwork. (Steve Herbert, Jacqueline Gallagher and Garth Myers) 14. Counting and Measuring. (Danny Dorling).

15. Theory and Theorizing. (Elspeth Graham).

Part V: The Uses of Geography.

16. A Policy-Relevant Geography for Society? (Alisdair Rogers).

17. Whose Geography? Education as Politics. (Noel Castree).

Index.

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