Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates

Castree

ISBN 10: 140510192X / ISBN 13: 9781405101929

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2005

About this Item

Questioning Geography introduces students to the fundamental debates that animate geography today. Each of the chapters focuses on a key issue that has divided or galvanised geographers in their work. Covers both human and physical geography. Includes essay questions and suggestions for further reading. Editor(s): Castree, Noel; Rogers, Alisdair; Sherman, Douglas. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2005. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140510192X
• ISBN 13: 9781405101929
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Questioning Geography introduces students to the fundamental debates that animate geography today.

• Each of the chapters focuses on a key issue that has divided or galvanised geographers in their work.
• Covers both human and physical geography.
• Includes essay questions and suggestions for further reading.
• Demonstrates to students the distinctiveness and vitality of modern geography.

About the Author

Noel Castree is Reader in Geography at Manchester University. He is co-editor of Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (1998) and Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics (Blackwell, 2001) and co-author of Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographies of Labour (2004).

Ali Rogers is Fellow by Special Election at Keble College, Oxford. He is co-editor of The Student’s Companion to Geography (Second Edition, Blackwell, 2002) and editor of Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs.

Doug Sherman is Professor and Head of the Geography Department at Texas A&M University. A researcher on coastal and aeolian environments, he has written about ‘fashion dudes’ in geomorphology and has taught the history of ideas in physical geography for many years.