Lee, Roger and Castree, Noel and Kitchin, Rob and Lawson, Victoria and Paasi, Anssi and Philo, Charles and Radcliffe, Sarah and Roberts, Susan and Withers, Charles W.J. (2014) Introduction. In: The Sage Handbook of Human Geography. SAGE Publications Ltd, London, xi-xiv. ISBN 9780857022486

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This collection of essays offers an interpretation of human geography and its significance as a diverse body of intellectual enquiry for imagining, thinking about, living in and changing the world. The book examines the ways in which human geography as a discipline – the intellectual concerns of a specialised yet richly varied field of knowledge – shapes the lived and experienced geographies of the human world and so is vital to its wider analysis, understanding and transformation. The book may, therefore, be described as a dynamic grammar, rather than a strict syntax or vocabulary, of human geography. And this grammar extends well beyond human geography. Our concern is to disclose human geography as a vibrant enterprise of vital significance in informing, framing and shaping social and environmental practices and understandings.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	human geography; discipline; society; diversity; culture;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	7315
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446247617
Depositing User:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Date Deposited:	06 Sep 2016 14:04
Journal or Publication Title:	The Sage Handbook of Human Geography
Publisher:	SAGE Publications Ltd
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://sk.sagepub.com
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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