Questioning Geography : Fundamental Debates

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.

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.