Alastair Bonnett

What is Geography? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that define the subject, What is Geography? demonstrates how and why these themes - like environment and geopolitics- are of fundamental importance.

Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes like environment, space, and place - as well as geography's methods and the history of the discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473902640
• Artikelnr.: 41337273

Autorenporträt

Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Geography at Newcastle University. His books have been translated into nineteen languages and include 'The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands' and 'Multiracism: Rethinking Racism in Global Context'.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Why What is Geography?
Chapter 2: Order and Power: To Know the World I
Introduction
Ordering the World
Modern Geography: The World of Trade and Nations
Whose Geography?
Conclusion
Chapter 3: People and Nature: To Know the World II
Introduction
Our Environment
Changes, Challenges, and Defenses
The Systems of Nature
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Urbanization and Mobility
Introduction
Presenting the City
Urban Critics
Mobilities
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Doing Geography
Introduction
To Explore
To Connect
To Map
To Engage
Geography, Children and Freedom: A Plea
Chapter 6: Institutionalizing Geography
Introduction
Specialist Institutions
Geography's Popular Institutions
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Future Geographies
Introduction
Surviving and Thriving
Diverse Geographies
Digital and Virtual Geographies
Astrogeography: Other Worlds, New Comparisons, and New Conflicts
Conclusions: A Planet of Geographers
Postscript: What is Geography?
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

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To Know the World
Order and Power
To Know the World
People and Nature
Geographical Obsessions
Urbanisation and Mobility
Doing Geography
Institutionalising Geography

Rezensionen

I cannot imagine a better guide to the transition between school and undergraduate geography than this short, informative and confidently-argued book. Written without fuss but based on solid learning and clear thinking, it tackles head-on a question many professional academic geographers would rather avoid: what is geography?
Alisdair Rogers