Key Texts in Human Geography

Phil Hubbard is Professor in Urban Studies in the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for the Social Sciences. Professor Valentine has held prestigious international visiting fellowships at the Universities of Sydney, Australia and Otago, New Zealand and has visited and given keynote addresses at a range of prestigious international conferences. She was co-founder and co-editor of the international journal Social and Cultural Geography, and co-edited Gender, Place and Culture. She has undertaken international research in Europe, Africa and the USA and is committed to developing the University of Sheffield's international strategy within the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Torsten Hagerstrand 'Innovation Diffusion as Spatial Process' (1953) - Bo Lenntrop William Bunge 'Theoretical Geography' (1962) - Michael F. Goodchild Peter Haggett 'Locational Analysis in Human Geography' (1965) - Martin Charlton David Harvey 'Explanation in Geography' (1969) - Ron Johnston Kevin Cox 'Conflict, Power and Politics in the City' (1973) - Andy Wood Edward Relph 'Place and Placelessness' (1976) - David Seamon and Jacob Sowers Yi-Fu Tuan 'Space and Place' (1977) - Tim Cresswell David Harvey 'The Limits to Capital' (1982) - Noel Castree Neil Smith 'Uneven Development' (1984) - Martin Phillips Doreen Massey 'Spatial Divisions of Labour' (1984) - Nick Phelps Women in Geography Study Group 'Geography and Gender' (1984) - Susan Hanson Denis Cosgrove 'Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape' (1984) - David Gilbert Stuart Corbridge 'Capitalist World Development' (1986) - Satish Kumar Peter Dicken 'Global Shift' (1986) - Jonathan Beaverstock David Harvey 'The Condition of Postmodernity' (1989) - Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III Edward Soja 'Postmodern Geographies' (1989) - Claudio Minca Michael Storper and Richard Walker 'The Capitalist Imperative' (1989) - Neil Coe David Livingstone 'The Geographic Tradition' (1992) - Nick Spedding Gillian Rose 'Feminism and Geography' (1992) - Robyn Longhurst Derek Gregory 'Geographical Imaginations' (1995) - John Pickles David Sibley 'Geographies of Exclusion' (1995) - Phil Hubbard Gearoid O'Tuathail 'Critical Geopolitics' (1996) - Jo Sharp Trevor Barnes 'Logics of Dislocation' (1996) - Philip Kelly Sarah Whatmore 'Hybrid Geographies' (2002) - Sarah Dyer Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift 'Cities' (2002) - Alan Latham Doreen Massey 'For Space' (2005) - Ben Anderson

A book that will delight students... Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject's landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation. The commissioned essays aim to assess the impacts, responses, significance and legacies of the books they discuss while evaluating their key arguments and providing a guide to how they should be read. In this sense, the book is brilliantly successful. The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through... For those students who would have engaged with the original texts anyway, this will be an invaluable companion; for many others, it will be an invaluable crib sheet... for my money, this is as good a list as any and one that accurately reflects the curricula of the courses for which it is designed... it will find itself at the top of a thousand module handouts THE Textbook Guide Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals... Prof James D Sidaway School of Geography, University of Plymouth An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core Barney Warf Florida State University