Boyle, Mark
(2005)
Review essays on: Key Thinkers on Space and Place.
Environment and Planning A, 37.
pp. 161-187.
ISSN 0308-518X
Abstract
Twenty years ago it was common to bemoan the lack of textbooks on the history and
philosophy of geography. Although Arild Holt-Jensen's (1999) Geography:History
and Concepts (first published in English in 1981) was the first book to systematically
chart different approaches to geographic thought, it was Ron Johnston's Geography
and Geographers:Anglo-American Geography Since 1945 (first published in 1979) that
occupied premium position in the marketplace. Applying Kuhn's paradigm theory,
Johnston of course attempted to trace the biography of geography in terms of the
rise and fall of environmental determinism, possibilism, regional geography, positivism
and spatial science, behavioural geography, humanistic geography, and structural
Marxism. In its valiant endeavour to make sense of the complex trajectory of the
discipline from the mid-1980s, Geography and Geographers has benefited from the recent
addition of James Sidaway as coauthor of the 6th edition published in 2004.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Review essays; Key Thinker; Space; Place; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
8708 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1068/a37350 |
| Depositing User: |
Mark Boyle
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| Date Deposited: |
29 Aug 2017 08:40 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Environment and Planning A |
| Publisher: |
SAGE Publications |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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