People and Place : The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life

An innovative introduction to Human Geography, exploring different ways of studying the relationships between people and place, and putting people at the centre of human geography. The book covers behavioural, humanistic and cultural traditions, showing how these can lead to a nuanced understanding of how we relate to our surroundings on a day-to-day basis. The authors also explore how human geography is currently influenced by 'postmodern' ideas stressing difference and diversity. While taking the importance of these different approaches seriously as ways of thinking about the role of place in peoples' everyday lives, the book also tries to encapsulate what has been so vibrant and exciting about human geography over the last couple of decades. By using examples to which students can relate - such as how they imagine and represent their home, the way they avoid certain spaces, how they move through retail spaces, where they choose to go to university, how they use the Internet, how they represent other nations and so on - the authors show how geography shapes everyday life in a manner that is seemingly mundane yet profoundly important. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Preface: read this! Acknowledgements Chapter 1. ... Arrivals 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Thinking geographically 1.3 Approaches to human geography 1.4 Geographies of people and place? Chapter 2. Everyday places, ordinary lives 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Space, time and globalization 2.3 Mapping the geographies of everyday life Chapter 3. Knowing place 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Geographies of the mind, geographies of the senses 3.3 Place images and mental maps 3.4 Behaviour in place Chapter 4. A sense of place 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Regional geography, home places and humanistic approaches 4.3 Humanistic geography: 'there's no place like home' 4.4 The geography of the lifeworld 4.5 Writing home: place, landscape and belonging Chapter 5. Disturbing place 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Home sweet home . . .? 5.3 Exclusion, territoriality and national identity 5.4 Geographies of fear and anxiety 5.5 Rethinking humanistic geographies Chapter 6. Imagining places 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Mythologies and geographical imaginations 6.3 Urban myths 6.4 Wild and natural places 6.5 The mystical East: imagining elsewhere Chapter 7. Representing place 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Interpreting communication: what is representation? 7.3 Place, space and knowledge 7.4 'It's grim up North . . .': representing regions 7.5 Geography as representation: maps and map-making Chapter 8. Place and power 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Power, discipline and the state 8.3 Civilized bodies, civilized places 8.4 Place and moral order Chapter 9. Struggles for place 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Place, conflict and transgression 9.3 Place and resistance 9.4 Speaking from the margins: the cultural politics of place Chapter 10. Departures ... 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Philosophy and human geography 10.3 Moral geographies, immoral geographers? 10.4 Doing geography: telling stories Bibliography Index