{"product_id":"making-geography-matter-the-past-and-present-of-a-changing-discipline-paperback","title":"Making Geography Matter: The Past and Present of a Changing Discipline - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNoel Castree\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTrevor Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJennifer Salmond\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the purpose of Geography? What do geographers study and why? How do they seek to shape the world they interrogate?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses these questions by examining the lives and works of individual geographers, both past and present. Like all disciplines, Geography is no more nor less than the collective endeavours of researchers and teachers operating in specific contexts. The contexts both shape, and are shaped by, these individuals. This book's biographical and autobiographical chapters transport readers to the times and places where geographers have sought to make Geography matter. The result is a more vivid, grounded understanding of the discipline than the many high-level surveys of geographic thought paradigms currently written for university students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book's accessible essays each conclude with a study task. \u003cem\u003eMaking Geography Matter\u003c\/em\u003e is aimed at university students and their teachers who wish to understand the goals, history and evolving practice of Geography. It provides an alternative perspective - both concrete and engaging - to the many student-focussed texts that map out numerous 'isms and ologies'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoel Castree\u003c\/b\u003e has worked at the universities of Manchester, Wollongong and Liverpool, and the University of Technology Sydney. He is managing editor of the journals \u003cem\u003eProgress in Human Geography\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEnvironment and Planning F\u003c\/em\u003e. He is author of the books \u003cem\u003eWhat Future For the Earth?\u003c\/em\u003e (2025) and \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrevor Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he has been since 1983. His research is in economic geography and on the post-war history of human geography. He is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Salmond\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Physical Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a physical geographer whose research interests include urban meteorology, air pollution, climatology and critical physical geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.69 x 6.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733613809727,"sku":"9781032380513","price":112.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d328568bb0819880218f7ba4e87c1db8.webp?v=1765136643","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/making-geography-matter-the-past-and-present-of-a-changing-discipline-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}