Overview

This book provides concise insights from a diverse range of leading scholars, reflecting on how they became geographers—representative of the field’s diversity. It explores the trajectory of their academic career, their formative influences, interpretive frameworks and divisions within geography, and what it means to have a geographic sensibility. It asks how geographers came to acquire an interest and how they developed that interest. It interrogates the various influences and conditions that helped make them geographers; the interpretive frameworks that guided them; the role of the serendipitous; and how their ideas shifted. The various trajectories cover a period of dramatic change in the field, and this is registered in the stories told. Within that frame, and despite the particularity of each contribution, there are both similarities and contrasts. In these ways, the book offers insightful contributions on how geographies and the history of the field get made, and for those considering embarking on a career in geography, just what to expect.

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9781032888651

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Reviews

'This book provides a set of fascinating insights into the diverse routes in and through an academic career. It is also a source of encouragement for those who start late or change direction on the way, as well as demonstrating the energy and enthusiasm of practitioners of geography in all its absorbing facets.' Linda McDowell DLitt., FBA, CBE Professor Emerita of Human Geography University of Oxford. 'This fascinating compendium explores the varied ways that geography as a discipline has captured the imaginations and commitments of scholars seeking larger explanations than the simple more siloed disciplines have provided. The pervasive integrative questions of environment, place, justice, pasts and futures are woven into the biographies of these geographers and their expansive work. Through these essays you can see how geography changed them , and how they changed geography and its allied disciplines. A great review of personal histories of ideas, and their broader transformative dynamics…' Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

'This book provides a set of fascinating insights into the diverse routes in and through an academic career. It is also a source of encouragement for those who start late or change direction on the way, as well as demonstrating the energy and enthusiasm of practitioners of geography in all its absorbing facets.' Linda McDowell, DLitt., FBA, CBE Professor Emerita of Human Geography University of Oxford 'This fascinating compendium explores the varied ways that geography as a discipline has captured the imaginations and commitments of scholars seeking larger explanations than the simple more siloed disciplines have provided. The pervasive integrative questions of environment, place, justice, pasts and futures are woven into the biographies of these geographers and their expansive work. Through these essays you can see how geography changed them, and how they changed geography and its allied disciplines. A great review of personal histories of ideas, and their broader transformative dynamics…' Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Author Information

Kevin R. Cox is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geography of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

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