The Dictionary of Human Geography

Index

Note:This index aims to provide a guide to the complex interconnections within human
geography. References to particular topics will be found most easily by looking up that particular
topic, but extensive sets of subheadings also indicate the various aspects of more general
headings. In addition, a network ofseeandsee alsoreferences indicates alternative headings
and related topics. Alphabetical arrangement is word-by-word. References to particular authors
are included only where their work is quoted or discussed in some detail. Page numbers inbold
type indicate the main discussion of a topic that is also treated in less detail on the other pages
cited. Page numbers initalicsrefer to diagrams.

Aay, H. 297
abduction 1
data mining 143
deduction 149
geocomputation 275
induction 375
Abercrombie, N. 368
abjection 1
body 52
gender 268
homophobia and
heterosexism 344
subject/subjectivity 729
aboriginality1–2
Austral(as)ia, idea of 40
census 74
film 253
social geography 693
Abramson, A. 408
Absolute Poverty Line 574
absolute rent 644
absolute space 708
abstraction 2
Cartesianism 65
colonialism 97
Grand Theory 315
internal relations 390
model 468
realism 622
region 631
structuration theory 726
trialectics 776
Abu-Lughod, Janet 304
academy
activism 5–6
situationists/situationism 685
accessibility2–3
Alonso model 23
centrifugal and centripetal
forces 78
education 186
gravity model 317
macrogeography 433
mobility 467
spatial mismatch 713, 714
transport geography 773

acculturation 768

accumulated sunk costs 733

accumulation3–4

agrarian question 15

agricultural geography 17

base and superstructure 43

creative destruction 119

crisis 121

feudalism 250

fiscal crisis 255

flexible accumulation256–7

global cities/world cities 304

human geography 351

integration 388

labour theory of value 407

plantation 543

political ecology 546

political geography 550

power 575

primitive accumulation580–1

privatization 585

redistribution 625

regime of accumulation 630

rural geography 659

state 724

tariff 741

transnational corporations

(TNCs) 771

vertical theme 798

violence 799

war 804

World Trade Organization

(WTO) 813

world-systems analysis 813

acid rain4, 551

ACORN 276

action research4–5

activism 6

applied geography 34

economic geography 180

feminist geographies 245

interviews and

interviewing 394

qualitative methods 604

activism5–6

collective consumption 94

critical human

geography 123

deep ecology 149

environmental justice 201–2

epistemology 206

ethics 212

interviews and

interviewing 393

radical geography 620

secularism 671

social geography 693

social justice 694

third space 754

urban social movement 790,

791

actor-network theory

(ANT)6–7

animals 29

ethnomethodology 219, 220

geographical imagination 285

geography 293

geography, history of 298

human agency 348

humanistic geography 358

industrial geography 378

landscape 411

law 414

locality 425

location theory 428

network(s) 499

non-representational

theory 503, 504

ontology 513

place 541

political ecology 545

posthumanism 564

post-structuralism 572

power-geometry 576

science/science studies 667

situated knowledge 684

social network 696

society 701

subject/subjectivity 728

text 750

time-geography 757

transculturation 768

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