Exploring Human Geography: A Reader - Arnold Readers in Geography 1. udgave

Publisher Marketing: A resource for first-year students of human geography, this introductory reader comprises key published writings from the main field of human geography. Because the subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a principal aim of the text is to present a view of the subject which is theoretically informed and yet recognizes that any view is partial, contingent and subject to change.

Contributor Bio:  Daniels, Stephen Daniels lectures in Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. Contributor Bio:  Lee, Roger Roger Lee is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He was editor of the "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers" from 1993 to 1998 and is currently an editor of "Progress in Human Geography," His previous publications include "Economic Geography" (third edition, 1982), "Teaching Geography in Higher Education" (Blackwell, 1991), "Geographies of Economies" (1997) and "Alternative Economic Spaces" (2003). He is also an academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. David M. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He held earlier appointments at the Universities of Manchester, Southern Illinois, Florida, Natal, the Witwatersrand and New England (Australia). He is the author or editor of twenty books, including "Geography and Social Justice" (Blackwell, 1994) and "Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference" (2000). Contributor Bio:  Lee, Roger Roger Lee is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is an economic geographer interested in the connections and contradictions between the presumed hard logics of economy and their socio-cultural practice and in the possibilities for progressive change that might ensue from the latter.