Human geography is a diverse and vibrant subject. It aims to understand human occupancy of the earth's surface: the places created; boundaries constructed; environments altered; and connections made by people as they seek to meet their various needs and wants. Because of its high intellectual ambition, human geography is a broad and plural subject in which a wide range of research is undertaken.

Making sense of the field can be challenging, even for seasoned practitioners. This four-part, five volume collection provides a map for anyone seeking to reconnoitre the landscape of human geography today. Focusing mostly on Anglophone contributions, it begins with a discussion of the histories and philosophies of geographical knowledge and continues through to the central concerns of the discipline: space (in relation to productions, practices and performances); and nature (in relation to distinctions between 'culture' and 'nature').

Part One: Histories, Philosophies and Politics

Part Two: Theories, Methods and Practices

Part Three: Space, Place and Landscape

Part Four: Nature, Environment and the Non-Human

VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: HISTORIES, PHILOSOPHIES AND POLITICS
Histories of Geographical Knowledges
Tropical Hermeneutics and the Climatic Imagination - David Livingstone
Writing Travels: Power, Knowledge and Ritual on the English East India Company¿s Voyages - Miles Ogborn
The Political Pivot of Geography - Gerry Kearns
Between Regions: Science, Militarism and American Geography from World War to Cold War - Trevor Barnes and Matt Farish
The Meaning and Social Origins of Discourse on the Spatial Foundations of Society - Allen Scott
Philosophies in Human Geography
The Culture of Epistemology - Ulf Strohmayer
Postmodernist Thought in Geography: A Realist View - Andrew Sayer
Strategic Positivism - Elvin Wyly
Spatialising the Subject of Feminism - Geraldine Pratt
Section Three: Situated Knowledges
Cook¿s Tour - Derek Gregory
Situated Knowledges: Positionality, Reflexivity and Other Tactics - Gillian Rose
The Limits of Responsibility: A Postcolonial Politics of Academic Knowledge Production - Tariq Jazeel and Colin McFarlane
Politics and Ethics in Human Geography
Social Justice Revisited - David Smith
Development Ethics: Distance, Difference, Plausibility - Stuart Corbridge
Poststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community - E. Jeffrey Popke
Practical Orientalism: Bodies, Everyday Life and the Construction of Otherness - Michael Haldrup, Lasse Koefoed and Kirsten Simonsen
VOLUME TWO
Intra-Disciplinary Divides and Debates
Geography as an Art - Donald Meinig
Geographic Information Science - Michael Goodchild
Geography: Coming Apart at the Seams? - Ron Johnston
Beyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies - Mei-Po Kwan
PART TWO: THEORIES, METHODS AND PRACTICES
Theory and Theorizing
Towards Minor Theory - Cindi Katz
Understanding Diversity: The Problem Of/For Theory - Linda McDowell
Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies - Anne Markusen
Numbering, Modelling and Interpreting
From Models to Marx - David Harvey
Quantitative Geography: Representations, Practices and Possibilities - Eric Sheppard
Arguments for a Humanistic Geography - Stephen Daniels
Denaturalizing Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism - Gillian Hart
Fieldwork
Masculinist Epistemologies and the Politics of Fieldwork in Latin Americanist Geography - Juanita Sundberg
For Ethnography - Steve Herbert
The Rigours of an Arctic Experiment: The Precarious Authority of Field Practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958-1970 - Richard Powell
Maps and mappings
Cartography without Progress: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Map-Making - Matthew Edney
Subverting Cartography: The Situationists and Maps of the City - David Pinder
Rethinking Maps - Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge
Visuality and visual methods
Visuality - Fraser MacDonald
Feminist Visualization: Re-Envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research - Mei-Po Kwan
Imagining Geographies of Film - Stuart Aitken and Deborah Dixon
Digging in to Google Earth: an Analysis of Crisis in Darfur - Lisa Parks
VOLUME THREE
Researching and intervening
Geography and Public Policy: The Case of the Missing Manifesto - Ron Martin
¿Give Up Activism¿ and Change the World in Unknown Ways: Or, Learning to Walk With Others on Uncommon Ground - Paul Chatterton
Participatory GIS: A People¿s GIS - Christine Dunn
Radical Scholarship: A Polemic on Making a Difference Outside the Academy - Don Mitchell
PART THREE: KEY CONCEPTS
Theorizing space
The Spatio-Temporality of Capitalism - Noel Castree
Power, Modernity and Historical Geography - Cole Harris
Philosophy and Politics of Spatiality: Some Considerations - Doreen Massey
Space: The Fundamental Stuff of Geography - Nigel Thrift
Globalization and Geographical Scale
The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality - Eric Sheppard
After Geopolitics? From The Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics - Deborah Cowen and Neil Smith
Querying Globalization - Julie-Kathie Gibson-Graham
Human Geography without Scale - Sallie Marston, John Paul Jones and Keith Woodward
Places and Everyday Life
A Day in the Life - Allan Pred
Driving Places - Peter Merriman
The Effacement of Place: US Foreign Policy and the Spatiality of the Gulf Crisis - Gearoid O¿Tuathail
VOLUME FOUR
Landscapes
Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea - Denis Cosgrove
Dead Labor and the Political Economy of Landscape - Don Mitchell
Climate, Race and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India - Judith Kenny
Performing On the Landscape versus Doing Landscape - Kenneth Olwig
Regions
Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography - Edward Soja
Regions, Globalization, Development - Michael Storper and Allan Scott
Regions Unbound: Towards a New Politics of Place - Ash Amin
Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing Regional Identity - Anssi Paasi
Territory and Borderlands
Borders on the Mind: Re-Framing Border Thinking - John Agnew
Land, Terrain, Territory - Stuart Elden
Besieging Cartographies - Derek Gregory
Stateless by Design - Alison Mountz
PART FOUR: NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE NON-HUMAN
Political Economies of Environment and Natural Resources
The Production of Nature - Neil Smith
Californiäs Golden Road to Riches: Natural Resources and Regional Capitalism, 1848 - 1940 - Richard Walker
The Political Economy of a Crisis - Scott Prudham
Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria - Michael Watts
Social Vulnerability and Un/Natural Hazards
The Space of Vulnerability: The Causal Structure of Hunger and Famine - Michael Watts and Hans Bohle
White Death - Kris Olds, James Sidaway and Matt Sparke
The Geopolitical Economy of Resource Wars - Philippe Le Billon
VOLUME FIVE
Political Ecologies
Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in the Gambia - Judith Carney
Landscapes of Disaster: Water, Modernity and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai - Matt Gandy
Human Geography and the ¿New Ecology¿: The Prospect and Promise of Integration - Karl Zimmerer
Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn - Paul Robbins and Julie Sharp
Cultures of ¿Nature¿
Unstable Climates: Exploring the Statistical and Social Constructions of ¿Normal¿ Climate - Mike Hulme
Buried Epistemologies: The Politics of Nature in (Post) Colonial British Columbia - Bruce Braun
Agrarian Moral Economies and Neoliberalism in Brazil: Competing Worldviews and the State in the Struggle for Land - Wendy Wolford
Biopolitical Geographies
Foucault¿s Population Geographies: Classifications, Biopolitics and Governmental Spaces - Steve Legg
The Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka - Jennnifer Hyndman
Exceptional Sovereignty: Guantanamo Bay and the Re-Colonial Present - Simon Reid-Henry
More-than-Human Geographies
Transspecies Urban Theory - Jennifer Wolch, Kathleen West and Thomas Gaines
The Nature That Capital Can See: Science, State and Market in the Commodification of Ecosystem Services - Morgan Robertson
Living Cities: Towards A Politics of Conviviality - Steve Hinchliffe and Sarah Whatmore
Ecologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee - Jake Kosek