Making Geography Matter: The Past and Present of a Changing Discipline

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Chapter 1: Making the ‘geo’ matter: The discipline and discourse of geography
	Introduction
	Geography: Realities and their representation
	Making sense of Geography and geographers: A focus on people, their contexts and their ‘projects’
	The structure and content of this book
	Canonisation, hagiography, Whig histories and the evolution of projects
	How Geography is made to matter: A framework for understanding
	Conclusion
	References
Part I: Making Geography
	Chapter 2: Absolute beginner?: Halford Mackinder and the popularization of geographical knowledge
		Introduction
		Mackinder’s childhood, family and educational background
		Towards the scope and methods of Geography and beyond
		The Oxford University Extension scheme and a geographical institute
		Anthropogeography and Mount Kenya
		Historical geography and Geography textbooks
		The London School of Economics and Mackinder’s entry into politics
		Conclusion: Taking stock of Mackinder’s impact
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 3: Geography as the science of environmental influences: Ellen Semple and the search for disciplinary relevance
		Introduction
		The path to becoming a geographer
		The influence of Friedrich Ratzel
		Understanding theories of environmental influences
		Bringing anthropogeography to the United States
		Testing anthropogeography as a field science
		Tracing the reception of Semple’s ideas
		Conclusion
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 4: Keeping human and physical geography together: Richard Chorley and Peter Haggett’s scientific turn
		Introduction
		The early years
			Richard Chorley
			Peter Haggett
		The “Terrible Twins” of British Geography
		Chorley’s general systems theory and Haggett’s Locational Analysis
			Richard Chorley
			Peter Haggett
		Reception and aftermath
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 5: Contemporary Geography: Advocating for a heterodox subject
		Introduction
		Background
		RGS-IBG in the making: approach and vision
		Change through heritage: ‘Unlocking the Archives’
		Boosting teaching and learning: the Action Plan for Geography
		Influencing policy: securing Geography in the English Baccalaureate
		Reaching public audiences: Discovering Britain
		Establishing Geography as a profession: Chartered Geographer
		Sustaining merger strengths: research, expeditions, and membership
		Conclusion
		Note
		Study task
			Challenge
			Resources
		References
Part II: Making geographical knowledge
	Chapter 6: Landscape and environmental change: Carl Sauer on land and life
		Introduction
		Sauer’s projects: an overview
		Early childhood: 1889–1899
		Intensive schooling: 1899–1908
		Graduate school years: 1908–1915
		Michigan years: 1916–1923
		Building Berkeley: 1923–1940
		In full stride: 1940–1957
		Retirement
		Coda
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 7: From mapping to GIScience: A sixty-year project
		Introduction
		Background
		Tobler’s Decennium Mirabilis
		The emergence of GIS
		GIS as a research tool
		A growing research establishment
		The social critiques of GIS
		The emergence of GIScience
		GIScience today
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 8: Radicalizing geography: The case of David Harvey’s Marxism
		Introduction
		Becoming a geographer in the UK
		To Baltimore, and to Marx
		Back to the UK
		Back to Baltimore, and on to New York City
		A radical geographer
		The radical/critical geography project
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 9: Open horizons: Doreen Massey’s geographies
		Introduction: radical geographer
		Space invader
		Spatial divisions
		Left turns
		Conclusion: placing Massey
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 10: Geographies of meaning and experience: Anne Buttimer’s lifeworld
		Introduction: what is Humanistic Geography?
		Why Buttimer’s Values matters
		Place, journey and the dynamism of lifeworld
		Buttimer’s own lifeworld and experience
		The practice of geography: storytelling as humanistic geographical practice
		Life trajectories and the history of geography: why Humanistic Geography still matters
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 11: Landscape as a way of seeing: Denis Cosgrove’s symbolic geographies
		Introduction
		Denis Cosgrove’s path to Geography
		The landscape debate
		Geometry and power: landscape as a way of seeing
		Beauty and harmony: landscape as a moral project
		Decoding and performing the symbolic landscape
		Conclusion
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 12: Boundaries and borders matter: Ron Johnston’s electoral geography
		Introduction
		Placing the person
		Placing the voter
		Defining political places
		Redrawing the electoral map
		Electoral redistricting in the United Kingdom
		Estimating the effect of changing (and not changing) electoral boundaries
		From analysing redistricting to reform
		Conclusions
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 13: Mobility matters: Movement, meaning, and practice in the context of power
		Introduction
		Why mobility matters
		Autobiography and the mobilities project
		On the Move and the new mobilities paradigm
		Conclusions
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 14: Scale matters: The case of workers and their geographies
		Why scale is an important concept for geographers and others
		What is scale?
		Engaging with scale
		Smithian understandings of scale
		Towards less capital-centric understandings of scale
		From a topographical to a topological view of scale
		Final thoughts
		Notes
		Study task
		Sample reading list
		References
	Chapter 15: Proximity, distance, and difference: The global and the intimate
		Introduction
		The Worcester project: gender, work and ‘space’
		Working with the Philippine Women’s Centre: the labour of care
		A travelling play
		Final reflections
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 16: Which realities are we trying to understand?: The workings of a physical geographer in the quest to respect river diversity
		Introduction
		Contextual scientific considerations that shape geomorphic understandings of rivers
		Development and application of the River Styles Framework as a scientific approach to analyse and manage geomorphic river diversity
		Envisaging and enacting rivers through a more-than-human lens grounded in Critical Physical Geography
		Reflections on the personal agency that underpinned key elements in my career
		Discussion: Geography as an enabler
		Concluding comment
		Acknowledgements
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 17: Beyond science: Climate change in a ‘wicked world’
		Introduction
		Climate as ‘climatology’
		Climate as Earth System science
		The limits of Earth System science
		‘Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change’
		Making Geography matter for climate change
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 18: ‘Other’ geographies: Engaging with different ways of knowing, valuing, and acting in post-colonial Australia
		Introduction
		Environmental activism in the Northern Territory
		Post-doctoral research: Macquarie University and the North Australia Research Unit
		Working as a scientist in Australia’s national science organisation
		Rejoining the university sector: the Australian Rivers Institute
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
Part III: Making geographical knowledge matter beyond Geography
	Chapter 19: Geographers and the national state: Dudley Stamp plans Britain’s towns and countryside
		Introduction
		Life and times
			Early years: World War I and Empire
			Middle years: The Land Use Survey, World War II and government
			Late years: Professor Stamp goes global
		The Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain
			Map making
			Policy making
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 20: Geographically empowering the marginalized: Bill Bunge, expeditions, and maps
		Introduction
		Bill Bunge: The early years
		The Detroit and DGEI decade
		Canada and the Toronto Geographical Expedition
		Quebec and the Nuclear War Atlas
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 21: Making other economies possible: Geographies of ethical action
		Introduction
		Scene 1: Community meeting hall, Springfield Massachusetts, 2000
		Scene 2: Community meeting hall, Jagna, Bohol, Philippines 2009
		Scene 3: Project Report launch “Beyond Business as Usual: A 21st-Century Culture of Manufacturing in Australia” at Western Sydney University, 2020
		Scene 4: Report back time in my Women’s Studies undergraduate class on Feminist Ecologies and Economies at Harvard University, 2022
		The birth of J.K. Gibson-Graham in a humble dorm room at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1992
		A geographer from Sydney and a literary critic from Detroit
			Katherine
			Julie
		Transforming economic geography with growing dissatisfaction
		Feminism (and anti-essentialism) to the rescue!
		In conclusion: geographies of ethical action
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 22: Speaking truth to power: Microplastics and the sewage scandal from the rivers of Manchester to Westminster
		Introduction
		A geographical perspective
		Mapping microplastics in space and time
		The global context
		New questions
		Microplastic pollution and water company behaviour
		The sewage scandal
		Policy impact at Westminster
		Criminal investigations into water company behaviour and a public apology
		Closing reflections
		Notes
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
	Chapter 23: Talking geography in the public realm
		Introduction
		Background
		The case for ‘Public Scholarship’
		Talking Geography
		Talking publicly
		Cecil Rhodes and Halford Mackinder
		Conclusion
		Study task
		Starter reading list
		References
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