Research in human geography : introductions and investigations
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Research in human geography : introductions and investigations
B. Blackwell, 1988
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Includes bibliographies and index
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The priorities of research and its funding have come to assume a dominant position in the lives of human geographers. But how is research conducted in a discipline as rich and diverse as human geography? Why and how is it started, how is it maintained, and how do original objectives survive in the face of changing data or research frameworks? This book brings together a wide range of accounts and analyses of research work actually undertaken. Together they demonstrate the scope of the discipline through the breadth of subject-matter - for example social, industrial, urban - and the variety of approaches - for example humanist, quantitative, feminist. There is also a chapter on the important topic of publication - unpublished research being of little value. Anybody undertaking or contemplating research in human geography, whether for the first time or as an experienced worker, should find this book of interest. It is a practical guide to methodology, but more too: there are reflections on motivation, finance, publication, large and small-scale politics, and the other more "human" but equally crucial aspects of research across the discipline.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: geography in the making. JOHN EYLES
- 2. Expose yourself to geographic research. PETER GOULD, Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
- 3. Research and the private sector: assessing the socio-economic impacts of a new coalmine. BARRY J. GARNER, Professor of Geography, University of New South Wales
- 4. Policy oriented research in industrial location. J. B. GODDARD, Professor of Geography, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- 5. Planning for SADCC's future. PHIL O'KEEFE and RICHARD PREET, Lecturer, Clark University
- 6. Towards a geography of the common people in South Africa. C. M. ROGERSON, Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies, and K. S. O. BEAVON, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, both at the University of Witwatersrand
- 7. Getting by in Indonesia: research in a foreign land. DEAN FORBES, Lecturer in Human Geography, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
- 8. Interpretive social research in the inner city. DAVID LEY, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia
- 9. A welfare approach to human geography. DAVID M. SMITH, Professor of Geography and Earth Science, Queen Mary College, London
- 10. Coming in from the dark: feminist research in geography. LINDA MCDOWELL, Lecturer in Geography, Open University
- 11. Writing geographically. R. J. JOHNSTON, Professor of Geography, University of Sheffield
- 12. Thinking geographically: the editor as tailgunner. JOHN EYLES.
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