List of contributors Viii // Acknowledgements x // 1 Ways of Knowing and Ways of Doing Geographic Research 1 - Stuart Aitken and Gill Valentine // PART I PHILOSOPHIES 13 // Introduction to section // 2 Positivistic Geographies and Spatial Science 20 - Rob Kitchin // 3 Humanism and Democratic Place-Making 30 - J. Nicholas Entrikin and John H. Tepple // 4 Feminist Geographies of Difference, Relation, and Construction 42 - Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III // 5 Marx and the Spirit of Marx 57 - George Henderson and Eric Sheppard // 6 Philosophical Bases of Behavioral Research in Geography 75 - Reginald G. Golledge // 7 Structuration Theory: Agency, Structure and Everyday Life 86 - Isabel Dyck and Robin A. Kearns // 8 Realism as a Basis for Knowing the World 98 - Andrew Sayer // 9 Postmodern Geographies and the Ruins of Modernity 107 - David B. Clarke // 10 Poststructuralist Theories - Paul Harrison 122 // 11 Actor-Network Theory, Networks, and Relational Approaches in Human Geography 136 - Fernando J. Bosco // 12 Postcolonialism: Space, Textuality, and Power 147 - Clive Barnett // Editors’Passnotes 161 // PART II PEOPLE 169 // Introduction to Section // 13 Institutions and Cultures 171 - Gerard Rushton // 14 Places and Contexts 178 - David Ley // 15 Memories and Desires 184 - David Harvey // 16 Experiences and Emotions 191 - Robin A. Kearns // 17 Personal and Political 198 - Vera Chouinard // 18 Difference and Place 205 - Linda McDowell // 19 Local and Global 211 - Richa Magar // 20 Movement and Encounter 218 - Lawrence Knopp // 21 Spaces and Flows 226 - Janice Monk // PART III PRACTICES 233 // Introduction to Section // 22 Duantification, Evidence and Positivism 237 - A. Stewart Fotheringham // 23 Geographie Information Systems 251 - Michael F. Goodchild // 24 Humanism and People-Centered Methods 263 - Paul Rodaway //
25 Changing the World: Geography, Political Activism, and Marxism 273 - Michael Samers // 26 Producing Feminist Geographies: Theory, Methodologies and Research Strategies 286 - Kim England // 27 Poststructuralist Theories, Critical Methods and Experimentation 298 - John W. Wylie // 28 Research is Theft: Environmental Inquiry in a Postcolonial World 311 - Paul Robbins // 29 Contested Geographies: Culture Wars, Personal Clashes and Joining Debate 325 - Gill Valentine and Stuart Aitken // Exercises 337 // Glossary 338 // Index 343