Chris Philo was appointed to a Chair in Geography at the University of Glasgow in 1995. His research interests concern the historical, cultural and rural geographies of mental ill-health, as well as social geographies of 'outsiders'; children's geographies; new animal geographies; historical and contemporary figurations of public space; Foucauldian studies and the history, historiography and theoretical development of geography

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology, William Bunge; Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes, D. Sibley; Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn', Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation, David Harvey; The socio-spatial dialectic, Edward W. Soja; The matter of nature, Margaret Fitzsimmons. Part III Humanistic Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Humanistic geography, Yi-Fu Tuan; Practising humanistic geography, Susan J. Smith; Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, Denis Cosgrove. Part IV Agency and Structure: Human agency and human geography, Derek Gregory; Human agency and human geography revisited: a critique of 'new models' of the self, Steve Pile; Space and causality, or whatever happened to the subject?, Benno Werlen. Part V Time, Space, Place and Space-Time: Social reproduction and the time-geography of everyday life, Allan Pred; Geography and the realm of passages, Erik Wallin; Politics and space/time, Doreen Massey. Part VI Scaling Human Geographies: Is there a place for the rational actor? A geographical critique of the rational choice paradigm, Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard; Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies, Neil Brenner; Human geography without scale, Sallie A. Marston, John Paul Jones III and Keith Woodward. Part VII Feminist and Other 'Positioned' Geographies: The geography of women: an historical introduction, Alison M. Hayford; Changing ourselves: a geography of position, Peter Jackson; Postcolonialising geography: tactics and pitfalls, Jenny Robinson; I lost an arm on my last trip back home: black geographies, Katherine McKittrick. Part VIII Poststructuralist Geographies: Geography and power: the work of Michel Foucault, Felix Driver; Understanding diversity: the problem of/for 'theory', Linda McDowell; My dinner with Derrida, or spatial analysis and poststructuralism do lunch, D.P. Dixon and J.P. Jones III; Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection, Marcus A. Doel. Part IX Posthumanist Geographies: Inhuman/nonhuman/human: actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society, Jonathan Murdoch; The body as 'place': reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria, Heidi J. Nast; Making connections and thinking through emotions: between geography and psychotherapy, Liz Bondi; From born to made: technology, biology and space, Nigel Thrift. Part X Limits to Human Geography: Hemming the way, Gunnar Olsson; Coming out of geography: towards a queer epistemology, Jon Binnie; Neo-critical geography, or, the flat pluralist world of business class, Neil Smith; Name index.

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