Geographical thought ; Human geography ; Scientific publication
over the past fifty years. Twenty-six interpretative essays highlight : the significance of the chosen text ; how the book should be read ; the book's main arguments and how it advanced geographical thought ; reactions and controversies surrounding
Geography students are often directed to key texts in the literature but find them difficult to read because of their language and argument. This book serves as a primer and companion to a selection of key texts published in anglo-saxon geography
Byproblemer og levekar. Foredrag ved Norsk Samfunnsgeografisk Forenings seminar pa Voss 6-7januar 1977 Urban problems and levels of living. Papers read at the Ass. of Norwegian human geographers, seminar at Voss on the 6-7th of January 1977
Urban structure and geographical access to public services. (Comment and reply)
Accessibilité ; England ; Géographie humaine ; Morphologie urbaine ; Reading région ; Royaume-Uni ; Services publics ; Ville
Le rôle de l'espace dans la consommation collective. Mesure de la distance. Problème de l'égalité spatiale et contraintes temporelles. Exemples de Reading (England). Controverse sur le rôle respectif de l'espace comme dimension sociale et le poids
A. maintains that regional geography is no more effective than the geographers art at telling the story of place. Sadly, the best geography writing is typically done by non-professional geographers such as journalists and novelists
. They are not only well read, but they still get out into the field to learn the subtleties about places and their peoples. The West as a region is discussed. - (SLD)
Impure and wordly geography : the Africanist discourse of the Royal Geographical Society, 1831-73
Africa ; British people ; Colonialism ; Discourse ; Exploration ; Geographical association ; Geographical knowkedge ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Perception
Drawing on deconstruction and colonial discourse theory, the paper presents a reading of the RGS's published record of 19th century African exploration. This discourse posits a racially unmarked subject-position as the condition of scientific
discussion. The RGS's geographical knowledge is shown to have been formed through the effacement of alternative subject-positions and the appropriation of other ways of knowing.
Applied geography ; Discourse ; Geographical hypertext ; Geographical knowkedge ; Geographicalreading ; Practice of geography ; Spatial knowledge
La lecture est une expérience vécue fort répandue. Elle est largement automatique. Elle fait partie intégrante du métier de géographe qui substitue l'analyse à la lecture. L'hypertexte qui exploite visiblement les savoirs de l'espace apparaît comme
Interpreting luminescence data from a portable OSL reader: three case studies in fluvial settings
light stimulation in the blue (BLSL) and infrared (IRSL) wavelengths using a portable OSL reader designed and built at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC). Three fluvial case studies – from Cambodia, Australia and Mexico
– are used to illustrate the geomorphological interpretations possible with the portable OSL reader data from sediments resulting from a range of different depositional processes.
[b1] School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Univ., Glasgow, Royaume-Uni
Sex-related differences in learning to interpret landsat images and in road map reading in young adolescents
This study from Canada showes that boys are generally better able than girls to read Landsat images, but that the ability to read a roadmap is not as clear-cut a gender difference. - (DWG)
Paul de Tarse, migrant et géographe : une lecture alternative de l'apôtre des gentils
On the occasion of the year dedicated to Saint Paul (28th June 2009), an alternative reading of his personality as a migrant and geographer is to be approached. According to what is reported in the Acts of the Apostles and in his letters, we analyze
the space mobility of Paul through his migratory experiences across the Mediterranean area and the geographical procedures followed during his missionary travels. - (NF)
Bringing Geography to Book : Ellen Semple and the reception of geographical knowledge
Amérique du Nord ; Déterminisme ; Environnement ; Epistémologie ; Great Britain ; Géographe ; Histoire de la géographie ; Réseau de sociabilité ; SEMPLE (E.) ; Savoir géographique ; Siècle 20
Determinism ; Environment ; Epistemology ; Geographer ; Geographical knowkedge ; Great Britain ; History of geography ; North America ; Social network ; Twentieth Century
first female professional geographers, it was viewed by some as a monument of scholarship and erudition, whilst for other readers it was a conceptually flawed book. Nonetheless, it had a profound influence on the development and future direction
Ellen Semple’s Influences of Geographic Environment (1911), a treatise on environmental determinism, coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academic discipline in North America and Great Britain. Written by one of America’s
in Western Finland and Vuoksi in Eastern Finland, provide cases which illustrate both past endemic time-spaces and surviving aspects of cultural readings of lakes and rivers. . As industrial uses of catchment areas, zoning, and environmental permitting
exclude endemic readings inherent on the land and waterscapes, solutions are explored through mapping, along with its limitations, as a form bridging the gap between local realities and resource extraction.
[b1] Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finlande
Lightness and weight : (re)reading urban potentialities through photographs
Capturing images is entwined in a complex web of associations, linking the epistemology of research practice with the perceived nature of evolving spatial processes. One example of this is the way urban geographers use images to document
Why community ? Reading difference and singularity with community
Les géographes se demandent pourquoi les communautés continuent à séduire tant de chercheurs alors que les tentatives de définition sont si problématiques. A la suite de la critique de cette notion selon Young, l'article considère la