John Agnew & David N Livingstone 
The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge [PDF ebook] 

A refreshingly innovative approach to charting geographical knowledge. A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement. This creative and comprehensive book offers an extremely valuable tool to professionals and students alike.


– Victoria Lawson, University of Washington



‚A Handbook that recasts geograph′s history in original, thought-provoking ways. Eschewing the usual chronological march through leading figures and big ideas, it looks at geography against the backdrop of the places and institutional contexts where it has been produced, and the social-cum-intellectual currents underlying some of its most important concepts.‘


– Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon




The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge is a critical inquiry into how geography as a field of knowledge has been produced, re-produced, and re-imagined.

It comprises three sections on geographical orientations, geography′s venues, and critical geographical concepts and controversies. The first provides an overview of the genealogy of ‚geography‘. The second highlights the types of spatial settings and locations in which geographical knowledge has been produced. The third focuses on venues of primary importance in the historical geography of geographical thought.

• Orientations includes chapters on: Geography – the Genealogy of a Term; Geography′s Narratives and Intellectual History


• Geography′s Venues includes chapters on: Field; Laboratory; Observatory; Archive; Centre of Calculation; Mission Station; Battlefield; Museum; Public Sphere; Subaltern Space; Financial Space; Art Studio; Botanical/Zoological Gardens; Learned Societies


• Critical concepts and controversies – includes chapters on: Environmental Determinism; Region; Place; Nature and Culture; Development; Conservation; Geopolitics; Landscape; Time; Cycle of Erosion; Time; Gender; Race/Ethnicity; Social Class; Spatial Analysis; Glaciation; Ice Ages; Map; Climate Change; Urban/Rural.

Comprehensive without claiming to be encyclopedic, textured and nuanced, this Handbook will be a key resource for all researchers with an interest in the pasts, presents and futures of geography.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – John A. Agnew and David N. Livingstone

PART ONE: ORIENTATIONS

Geography′s Geneologies – Robert J. Mayhew

Geography′s Narratives and Intellectual History – Charles W. J. Withers

PART TWO: GEOGRAPHY′S VENUES

The Field – Keith Richards

Museums – Simon Naylor and Jude Hill

Laboratory/Observatory – Scott Kirsch

Archive – Miles Ogborn

Botanical Gardens and Zoos – Nuala C. Johnson

Learned Societies – Michael Heffernan

Geography Information Systems Laboratory – Michael F. Goodchild

Art Studio – Stephen Daniels

The Weather Station and the Meteorological Office – Keith Richards

Centre of Circulation – Heike Jöns

Remote Sensing – Yongwei Sheng

Spaces of Hegemony? Circuits of Value, Finance Capital and Places of Financial Knowledge – Roger Lee

The Mission – Georgina Endfield

Battlefield – Gerard Toal/Gearóid Ó Tuathail

Making Mathematical Models Perform in Geographical Space(s) – Stuart N. Lane

Subaltern Space – Daniel Clayton

Public Sphere – Mustafa Dikec

The Role of Geography and Geographers in Policy and Government Departments – Tim Unwin

PART THREE: CRITICAL CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES

Nature and Society – Noel Castree

Landscape – John Wylie

Space and Place – John Agnew

Time – Mike Crang

Region and Regionalism – J. Nicholas Entrikin

Map – Anne Godlewska and Jason Grek Martin

Environmental Determinism – David N. Livingstone

Spatial Analysis – Trevor J. Barnes

Dynamics and Complexity – Christopher J. Keylock

Social Class – Eric Sheppard and James Glassman

Race/Ethnicity – Caroline Bressey

Gender – Joanne Sharp

The Idea of Evolution in Geographical Thought – Neil Roberts

Ecosystem – George P. Malanson

Landform – Nick Spedding

The Cycle of Erosion: Changing Times, Changing Science – Antony R. Orme

Glaciation and Ice Ages – Bryan Mark

Rivers and Drainage Basins – Nick Clifford

Environmental Change – Andrew Goudie

Global Climate Change – Glen M. Macdonald

The City – Phil Hubbard

Urban-Rural – Paul Cloke

Mobility – Tim Cresswell

Conservation and Environmental Concern – Michael Williams

Development – Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway

Geopolitics – Gerry Kearns

Über den Autor

My research interests congregate around several related themes: the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientific culture, and the historical geographies of science and religion. I am currently involved in writing a social history of climatic determinism from Herodotus to Global Warming under the working title ‘The Empire of Climate’’. This project is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Major Fellowship.