The Dictionary of Human Geography

discovers spatial patterns in geographical data sets, the geographical explanation machine tries to ‘explain’ them by identifyin ...

Some ten years later, David Harvey (1973) provided a discussion of the geographical im- agination that also recognized the value ...

geographies that depart considerably from the closures and clinical approaches of Geography- with-a-capital-G. In the first plac ...

writing, or mobilized in popular culture and politics (e.g. Pred, 2000). Critical studies of these geographical imaginations are ...

The early and middle nineteenth century saw the formation of several societies in the former category – both national (the Royal ...

that form the ‘local’ surrounding region is selected, and a regression is then fitted to data in this region in such a way that ...

education; nationalism). These practical considerations were hardly unique to the nine- teenth century. Geography had long artic ...

that dominated geographical journals and more evocative modes of expressing places and landscapes. En route, geography’s connec- ...

languages. Hartshorne’s (1939) enquiry into the nature of geography was an exegesis of a largely German-language tradition, and ...

the world have been reinforced by formal the- ories about location, spatialization and inter- dependence that have offered an in ...

so much of Torsten Ha ̈gerstrand’s extraor- dinary experiments with time-geography moved – but it is now being sharpened in radi ...

history, hazards research and political ecologytestify to the power of their contribu- tions. Similarly, physical geographers ha ...

and at the end of the day it may not matter very much. Most physical and human geog- raphers are probably too involved in their ...

a series of questions aboutepistemologyand the limits of geographical knowledge that re- quired a critique not only of geography ...

not be unreasonable to suggest that some of the most significant interventions into recent debates on the relationships between ...

engaged with wider theoretical currents (Peet, 1998); some rehearse the internal history of sub-disciplines (forhistorical geogr ...

landscape morphology, Richard Hartsho- rne’s areal differentiation and Fred K. Schaefer’sexceptionalismare typical candi- dates ...

‘myth’, while others, unenamoured of an al- together radicalrelativism(in which truth is taken to be relative to circumstance) o ...

storage, integration, analysis and visualization. Traditional surveying in the geosciences has involved a methodological and spa ...

an orphaned sub-field of late imperial geog- raphy resurrected in neo-imperial America and, simultaneously, the focus of diverse ...