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"Human geography is currently undergoing a rapid and far-reaching re-orientation, based on a redefined and much closer relationship with other social sciences. Aimed at a broad student readership, this book focuses on developments in social scientific theory of particular significance in rethinking human geography and on the contribution the geographical imagination can make to good social science."--

4. Social Theory and Human Geography: Worlds of MeaningHumanistic Geography; The Posts -- A Balance Sheet; 5. New Understandings of Space; Context; Understanding Relational Space; Case Studies; Concluding Comments; 6. Methods in Question; Quantitative-Qualitative; Analytic-Interpretive; Categorial-Dialectical; Pluralizing-Totalizing; Concluding Comments; 7. Human Geography and How and Why Things Happen; The Structure-Agency Debate; Structure-Agency: Some Critical Notes; Back to How and Why Things Happenin Human Geography; 8. Making Space for Human Geography in the Social Sciences.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of contributors -- 1. Reflecting research ethics in human geography: A constant need -- PART I: Ethics in human geographical research -- 2. Caring about research ethics and integrity in human geography -- 3. Research ethics in human and physical geography: Ethical literacy, the ethics of intervention, and the limits of self-regulation -- 4. Childhood is a foreign country? Ethics in socio-spatial childhood research as a question of 'how' and 'what' -- 5. Ethical challenges arising from the vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers within the research process -- 6. Research ethics and inequalities of knowledge production in Eastern Europe and Eurasia -- 7. Sensitive topics in human geography: Insights from research on cigarette smugglers and diamond dealers -- 8. Volunteer-practitioner research, relationships and friendship-liness: Re-enacting geographies of care -- PART II: Research ethics in the wider academic context -- 9. Illegal ethnographies: Research ethics beyond the law -- 10. Researcher trauma: Considering the ethics, impacts and outcomes of research on researchers -- 11. Practical ethics approaches for engaging ethical issues in research geography -- 12. Facing moral dilemmas as a method: Teaching ethical research principles to geography students in higher education -- 13. Doing geography in classrooms: The ethical dimension of teaching and learning -- 14. Ethics of reflection: A directional perspective -- Index.

In response to a paper by T J Barnes, published in 1998, the author accepts the same social-constructivist perspective, but argues that the structure of regression was not excessively constrained by its biometric origins. The history of regression and its use in the social sciences is examined, and the author argues that any assessment of regression in human geography must be set against this wider context.

This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives. As a cohesive collection of chapters from well-known geographers in Britain and North America, it reflects the aims of the contributors in striving to bridge the gap between the historical-materialist and humanist interpretations of human geography. The book deals with both the contemporary issues outlined above and the situation in which they emerge: industrial restructuring, planning, women's issues, soci

A work of outstanding originality and importance, which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography, this book asks: What is human science? Is a truly human science of geography possible? What notions of spatiality adequately describe human spatial experience and behaviour? It sets out to answer these questions through a discussion of the nature of science in the human sciences, and, specifically, of the role of phenomenology in such inquiry. It criticises established understanding of phenomenology in these sciences, and demonstrates how they are integrally related to each other. The need for a reflective geography to accompany all empirical science is argued strongly. The discussion is organised into four parts: geography and traditional metaphysics; geography and phenomenology; phenomenology and the question of human science; and human science, worldhood and place. The author draws upon the works, of Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer and Kockelmans in particular

1: Social geography and the sociospatial dialectic -- 2: The changing economic context of city life -- 3: The cultures of cities -- 4: Patterns of sociospatial differentiation -- 5: Spatial and institutional frameworks: citizens, the state and civil society -- 6: Structures of building provision and the social production of the urban environment -- 7: The social dimensions of modern urbanism -- 8: Segregation and congregation -- 9: Neighbourhood, community and the social construction of place -- 10: Environment and behaviour in urban settings -- 11: Bodies, sexuality and the city -- 12: Residential mobility and neighbourhood change -- 13: Urban change and conflict -- 14: Whither urban social geography? Recent developments.