The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography, 2v
Roger Lee,Noel Castree,Rob Kitchin,Vicky Lawson,Anssi Paasi,Chris Philo,Sarah Radcliffe,Susan M. Roberts,Charles Withers
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The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography, 2v
Roger Lee,Noel Castree,Rob Kitchin,Vicky Lawson,Anssi Paasi,Chris Philo,Sarah Radcliffe,Susan M. Roberts,Charles Withers
About This Book
Superb! How refreshing to see a Handbook that eschews convention and explores the richness and diversity of the geographical imagination in such stimulating and challenging ways.
- Peter Dicken, University of Manchester "Stands out as an innovative and exciting contribution that exceeds the genre."
- Sallie A. Marston, University of Arizona "Captures wonderfully the richness and complexity of the worlds that human beings inhabit... This is a stand-out among handbooks!"
- Lily Kong, National University of Singapore "This wonderfully unconventional book demonstrates human geography's character and significance not by marching through traditional themes, but by presenting a set of geographical essays on basic ideas, practices, and concerns."
- Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon
"This SAGE Handbook stands out for its capacity to provoke the reader to think anew about human geography... essays that offer some profoundly original insights into what it means to engage geographically with the world."
- Eric Sheppard, UCLA Published in association with the journal Progress in Human Geography, edited and written by the principal scholars in the discipline, this Handbook demonstrates the difference that thinking about the world geographically makes. Each section considers how human geography shapes the world, interrogates it, and intervenes in it. It includes a major retrospective and prospective introductory essay, with three substantive sections on:
- Imagining Human Geographies
- Practising Human Geographies
- Living Human Geographies
The Handbook also has an innovative multimedia component of conversations about key issues in human geography â as well as an overview of human geography from the Editors. A key reference for any scholar interested in questions about what difference it makes to think spatially or geographically about the world, this Handbook is a rich and textured statement about the geographical imagination.
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Part I Imagining Human Geographies
1 Place
Introduction
Through assembling (choice) bitsand (otherwise neglected or discarded) scraps,through the cut-and-paste reconstruction of montage,one may bring alive,open the text to multiple ways of knowingand multiple sets of meaning,allow multiple voices to be heard,to speak to (or past) each otheras well as to the contexts from which they emergeand to which they contribute. (Pred, 1997: 135)
Method of this project: literary montage. I neednât say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse â these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them. (Benjamin, 1999: 460)
Location, Locale, Sense of Place
Open space has no trodden paths and signposts. It has no fixed pattern or established human meaning; it is like a blank sheet on which meaning may be imposed. Enclosed and humanized space is place. Compared to space, place is a calm center of established values. Human beings require both space and place. Human lives are a dialectical movement between shelter and venture, attachment and freedom. (Tuan, 1977: 54)
The roadways from curb line to curb line of the following streets: West Maxwell Street from the west line of South Union Avenue to the east line of South Sangamon Street, except the roadway of South Halsted Street; West 14th Street and West 14th Place, from the west line of South Halsted Street to the east line of South Sangamon Street. (Legal Definition of the Maxwell Street Market in the Municipal Code of Chicago, quoted in Diagnostic Survey of Relocation Problems of Non-Residential Establishments, Roosevelt-Halsted Area, 1965. Institute of Urban Life, Loyola University for the Department of Urban Renewal, City of Chicago, p. 21)Nowhere, unless perhaps in dreams, can the phenomenon of the boundary be experienced in a more originary way than in cities. To know them means to understand those lines that, running alongside railroad crossings and across privately owned lots, within the park and along the riverbank, function as limits; it means to know those confines, together with the enclaves of the various districts. As threshold, the boundary stretches across streets; a new precinct begins like a step into the void â as though one had unexpectedly cleared a low step on a flight of stairs. (Benjamin, 1999: 88)
The latter facility is an open-air market where, on a busy day, more than a thousand individual proprietors arrange their merchandise on temporary stands, at the tailgate of their trucks, or simply on the pavement, in the expectation of selling some of them to passing pedestriansâŠ. Many of the operators sell second-hand merchandise, and bargain-hunters come to Maxwell Street from all parts of the Chicago area, and even from locations outside the State. The entrepreneurs who operate in the Maxwell Street Mark...