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BK

1st ed.

London : Sage, 2004

xvi,416 s. : il.

ISBN 0-7619-7300-1 (brož.)

Obsahuje ilustrace, grafy, diagramy, mapky, předmluvu, rejstřík

Bibliografie: s. 376-408

Relating theory to practice, Practising Human Geography explains the key ideas and methods essential for doing geography. As a teaching text Practising Human Geography will help students to: understand how human geographers work; the different methods and sources of data that they use; how they arrive at their interpretations of the world select, and critically evaluate, appropriate methods and sources for particular research projects understand the relation between the theoretical approaches taught in’geographical thought’courses and the methods and sources covered in ’geographical techniques’courses Illustrated with examples throughout, this text offers a thorough overview of research methodologies in human geography that will introduce students to the core issues that inform research design and application. Essential reading for taught courses in theory and practice, Practising Human Geography will also be a vital resource for those students beginning project work or dissertations..

Geografie sociální - pojednání

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Preface x // Acknowledgements xvi // 1 Changing practices of human geography: an introduction 1 // Practising human geography? 1 // A thumbnail history of practising human geography 7 // Conclusion 31 // Notes 32 // PART I CONSTRUCTING GEOGRAPHICAL DATA 35 // 2 Official sources 41 // Introduction 41 // Types of official information 42 // Information and state formation 43 // The contemporary informational state 49 // Understanding the construction of official information 53 // Conclusion 61 // Notes 61 // 3 Non-official sources 62 // Introduction 62 // Non-official sources in geographical research 63 // Critical issues in the use of non-official data sources 68 // Conclusion 91 // Note 92 // 4 Imaginative sources 93 // Introduction 93 // Understanding the construction of imaginative sources 94 // Imaginative sources in geographical research 104 // Case studies 115 // Conclusion 122 // Notes // 5 Talking to people 123 // Introduction 123 // The practices of talking to people 126 // Questionnairing 130 // Interviewing 148 // Discussion groups 159 // Ethics: an important end note 164 // Notes 168 // 6 Observing, participating and ethnographies 169 // Introduction: what is ethnography and how can it be geographical? 169 // Geography’s humanistic ethnographies 171 // The black inner city as Frontier outpost 173 // Geography’s ‘new’ ethnographies 182 // Top tips for prospective researchers 195 // Conclusion: field-noting 196 // Notes 204 // PART II CONSTRUCTING GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS 207 // 7 Sifting and sorting 215 // Sitting down with your data 215 // What happens when we put things into boxes and make lists 223 // A geographical detour into set theory 227 // Alternatives and recommendations 240 // Notes 245 // 8 Enumerating 247 // Enumeration and human geography 247 // Describing, exploring, inferring 253 // Modelling spatial processes 264 //

Geocomputation 271 // GIS and spatial analysis 272 // The authority of numbers? 277 // Notes 284 // 9 Explaining 285 // The complexity of explanation 285 // Explanation through laws: geography as spatial science 286 // Explanation as causation 288 // Intensive and extensive research 289 // The search for a revolution in geographical explanation 290 // Explanation through abstraction 291 // Explanation and subjectivity 295 // Explanation and practice 299 // Concluding comments: from the explanation of geography to the geographies within explanation 305 // Note 306 // 10 Understanding // Introduction // Seven modes of understanding // Conclusion: between understanding and explanation // Notes // 11 Representing human geographies // Introduction The work of writing Presenting research Representation and rhetoric Representation in practice Beyond the book Conclusion Notes // 12 The politics of practising human geography // The ‘personal’ politics of geographical practice // The politics of research practice // The politics of the academy // Ethics, morality and geographical research // Notes // References