1. Geographies of Empire: The Imperial Tradition Introduction Empire, imperialism and colonialism Defining terms Portuguese and Spanish empires British Empire The institionalisation of geography From ''fabulous'' to ''militant'' geography The Royal Geographical Society The Societé Géographie de Paris (SGP) Environmental determinism: climate and race Environmental determinism and the Panama Canal Criticisms and dissent Conclusions 2. The Quantitative Revolution Introduction The origins of the quantitative revolution Political reasons The quantitative revolution Positivism The assumption of neutrality The absence of politics The uniformity of human subjects The legacy of the quantitative revolution Conclusions 3. Humanistic Geographies Introduction Humanistic geography and the challenge to positivism Extension Revision Phenomenology and existentialism Phenomenology Existentialism Humanistic geography in focus: the work of Yi-Fu Tuan The challenge to humanism Structure agency Feminist geography Conclusions 4. Marxist Radical Geographies Introduction Karl Marx Key Marxist ideas Historical materialism The economic base The superstructure Ruling ideas Class struggle Class consciousness Commodity fetishism Radical geography The ''turn'' to Marxism Marxist geography and spatial constructions of class The political ecology of Marxism The limits of Marxism Future horizons Conclusions 5. Human Geography and the Cultural Turn Introduction The meaning of culture Early traditions of cultural geography New maps of meaning: British Cultural Studies Working-class histories Youth subcultures Race, ethnicity and nationalism Popular culture and media theory The new cultural geography Landscape as text The cultural turn from the margins to the centre Institutionalising cultural geography Recasting political and economic geography through the cultural turn Rematerialising culture, reclaiming the social Conclusions 6. Feminist Geographies Introduction First and second wave feminism First wave feminism Second wave feminism Political perspectives of feminism Radical feminism Socialist feminists Establishing feminist geography Making women visible Absence from departments and publications The enduring masculinist rationality of geography Divergent strategies of resistance Practicing feminist geography Qualitative methods Research position Collaborative practice Rethinking gender&amR>Conclusions 3. Humanistic Geographies Introduction Humanistic geography and the challenge to positivism Extension Revision Phenomenology and existentialism Phenomenology Existentialism Humanistic geography in focus: the work of Yi-Fu Tuan The challenge to humanism Structure agency Feminist geography Conclusions 4.

Marxist Radical Geographies Introduction Karl Marx Key Marxist ideas Historical materialism The economic base The superstructure Ruling ideas Class struggle Class consciousness Commodity fetishism Radical geography The ''turn'' to Marxism Marxist geography and spatial constructions of class The political ecology of Marxism The limits of Marxism Future horizons Conclusions 5. Human Geography and the Cultural Turn Introduction The meaning of culture Early traditions of cultural geography New maps of meaning: British Cultural Studies Working-class histories Youth subcultures Race, ethnicity and nationalism Popular culture and media theory The new cultural geography Landscape as text The cultural turn from the margins to the centre Institutionalising cultural geography Recasting political and economic geography through the cultural turn Rematerialising culture, reclaiming the social Conclusions 6. Feminist Geographies Introduction First and second wave feminism First wave feminism Second wave feminism Political perspectives of feminism Radical feminism Socialist feminists Establishing feminist geography Making women visible Absence from departments and publications The enduring masculinist rationality of geography Divergent strategies of resistance Practicing feminist geography Qualitative methods Research position Collaborative practice Rethinking gender&amof Marxism Future horizons Conclusions 5. Human Geography and the Cultural Turn Introduction The meaning of culture Early traditions of cultural geography New maps of meaning: British Cultural Studies Working-class histories Youth subcultures Race, ethnicity and nationalism Popular culture and media theory The new cultural geography Landscape as text The cultural turn from the margins to the centre Institutionalising cultural geography Recasting political and economic geography through the cultural turn Rematerialising culture, reclaiming the social Conclusions 6. Feminist Geographies Introduction First and second wave feminism First wave feminism Second wave feminism Political perspectives of feminism Radical feminism Socialist feminists Establishing feminist geography Making women visible Absence from departments and publications The enduring masculinist rationality of geography Divergent strategies of resistance Practicing feminist geography Qualitative methods Research position Collaborative practice Rethinking gender&am feminism Radical feminism Socialist feminists Establishing feminist geography Making women visible Absence from departments and publications The enduring masculinist rationality of geography Divergent strategies of resistance Practicing feminist geography Qualitative methods Research position Collaborative practice Rethinking gender 7. Geographies of Sexuality Introduction Engaging with the object of research Heteronormativity Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud Discursive: Michel Foucault Performativity: Judith Butler Geographies of sexuality Mapping sexuality Sexuality and space Heterosexuality The politics of sexuality The politics of the discipline Sexual citizenship Conclusions 8. Geography, Ethnicity and Racialisation Introduction The idea of race Cultural racisims Geography and the shadow of empire Mapping and monitoring race Urban cultural geographies of ''race'' Geographies of rural racism Turning to whiteness Anti-racist geographies: subverting a white discipline Conclusions 9. Post-modern Geographies Introduction Modernism and modernity Post-modernity: an historical moment Post-modernism: a critical practice Jean-François Lyotard - grand narratives Michel Foucault - discourse and power Jacques Derrida - deconstruction Jean Baudrillard - simulation, simulacra and hyper-reality Post-modernism: a stylistic phenomena Art, commercialism and the cult of celebrity Architecture and the built environment Geographical engagements: theory, method and practice Theory Method Practice Post-modern criticisms Conclusions 10.

Critical Geo-politics Introduction Origins of geo-politics Mackinder Haushofer Bowman Decline of geo-politics Critical geo-politics Political context Formal, practical and popular geo-politics Beyond critical geo-politics Anti-geo-politics Normative geo-politics Conclusions 11. Post-colonial Geographies and the Colonial Present Introduction Understanding post-colonialism Post-colonial geographies Imaginative geographies: the work of Edward Said Critiquing Orientalism Splitting race objects: the work of Frantz Fanon Blackness, whiteness and psychoanalysis Undoing race Geographical contribution Hybridity and the third space: the work of Homi Bhabha Colonial stereotypes Cultural hybridity Critiquing hybridity Doing post-colonial geographies Visual methods and post-colonial spectacle Post-colonial economic geographies Conclusions 12. Emotions, Embodiment and Lived Geographies Introduction A crisis of representation? Cultural geography and non-representational theory Understanding affect Towards ''more-than-representational-'' geographies Reinvigorating landscape The problem of performance Conclusions ;STRONG>9. Post-modern Geographies Introduction Modernism and modernity Post-modernity: an historical moment Post-modernism: a critical practice Jean-François Lyotard - grand narratives Michel Foucault - discourse and power Jacques Derrida - deconstruction Jean Baudrillard - simulation, simulacra and hyper-reality Post-modernism: a stylistic phenomena Art, commercialism and the cult of celebrity A.