From the Back End of Nowhere
John Agnew
A Reluctant Convert
Trevor Barnes
Landforms and Me: Shaping a Career in Geomorphology
Georgina Bennett
A Geographer From, Off And Working On The Rustbelt
Mark Boyle
From Pacific Shores
Carolyn Cartier
Forging a Path Through Life and the Changing Landscape of Geography
Noel Castree
The Moth And The Flame: A Journey Towards Self-Annihilation
Ipsita Chatterjee
A Transatlantic Adventure
Kevin R. Cox
A Quantitative Geographical Odyssey
A. Stewart Fotheringham
Very Slowly and Then All at Once
Rachel Franklin
Becoming A Geographer In The Shadow Of Geography’s Quantitative Revolution
Daniel Griffith
The Production of Geography (and a Geographer)
Kevin Grove
My Journey To and Through Marxist Geography
Matthew T. Huber
A Long Way Home: My Journey as a Geographer
Thembela Kepe
Becoming a Critical “Climate Geographer”: What Might That Mean, and What Can It Do?
Sarah Knuth
Meanders of an Uneasy Geographer
Mary Lawhon
Doing It the Hard Way
Helen Lawton Smith
Landscapes, Luck and an Inquisitive Adventurer
Glen MacDonald
Becoming A Geographer: A Bo(u)lder Choice
Joann Mossa
‘I became a geographer-in-the-making at the age of six’
Beverley Mullings
A Pirate and a Scientist
Jonathan Phillips
The Geographer That Latin America Made Me
Sarah A. Radcliffe
A Geographer at Heart
Marilyn Raphael
No Cursing, No Crying, No Cookies: The Interplay of History and Geomorphology
Dorothy Sack
Becoming a Geographer
Rickie Sanders
Becoming Undisciplined
Andrew Sayer
Time and Contingency: A Journey Through Geography
Michael Summerfield
From Essex to the ‘Edgelands’ of Geography
Heather Viles
Reflections on Geography, the Long 1960s and the Trahison des clercs
Michael J Watts
Biography
Kevin R. Cox is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geography of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
'This book provides a set of fascinating insights into the diverse routes in and through an academic career. It is also a source of encouragement for those who start late or change direction on the way, as well as demonstrating the energy and enthusiasm of practitioners of geography in all its absorbing facets.'
Linda McDowell, DLitt., FBA, CBE Professor Emerita of Human Geography University of Oxford'This fascinating compendium explores the varied ways that geography as a discipline has captured the imaginations and commitments of scholars seeking larger explanations than the simple more siloed disciplines have provided. The pervasive integrative questions of environment, place, justice, pasts and futures are woven into the biographies of these geographers and their expansive work. Through these essays you can see how geography changed them, and how they changed geography and its allied disciplines. A great review of personal histories of ideas, and their broader transformative dynamics…'
Susanna Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA and professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
