1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography
The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography is the defining reference for academics and postgraduate students seeking an advanced understanding of the debates, methodological developments and methods transforming research in human geography.
Divided into three sections, Part I reviews how the methods of contemporary human geography reflect the changing intellectual history of human geography and events both within human geography and society in general. In Part II, authors critically appraise key methodological and theoretical challenges and opportunities that are shaping contemporary research in various parts of human geography. Contemporary directions within the discipline are elaborated on by established and emerging researchers who are leading ontological debates and the adoption of innovative methods in geographic research. In Part III, authors explore cross-cutting methodological challenges and prompt questions about the values and goals underpinning geographical research work, such as: Who are we engaging in our research? Who is our research ‘for’? What are our relationships with communities?
Contributors emphasize examples from their research and the research of others to reflect the fluid, emotional and pragmatic realities of research. This handbook captures key methodological developments and disciplinary influences emerging from the various sub-disciplines of human geography.
Introduction
Sarah A. Lovell, Stephanie E. Coen and Mark W. Rosenberg
Part I: Origins, Reflections and Debates
1. The Great Debate in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Geography: Fred K. Shaefer vs. Richard Hartshorne
Trevor Barnes and Michiel van Meeteren
2. The Archive and the Field: Methodological Procedures and Research Outcomes in the Work of Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975)
W. George Lovell
3. The Quantitative Revolution
Mark W. Rosenberg
4. Towards Interdisciplinarity: The Relationship between GIS/GIScience/Cartography and Human Geography
Alberto Giordano
5. Reflections on Human Geography’s Methodological ‘Turns’
Robin Kearns
6. For an Intersectional Sensibility: Feminisms in Geography
Karen Falconer Al-Hindi and LaToya E. Eaves
7. Making Space for Indigenous Intelligence, Sovereignty and Relevance in Geographic Research
Chantelle Richmond, Brad Coombes, and Renee Pualani Louis
8. Geohumanities: An Evolving Methodology
Sarah de Leeuw
Part II: Methodologies of Human Geography’s Sub-Disciplines
Sarah A. Lovell
9. Affective Landscapes: Capturing Emotions in Place
Ronan Foley
10. Geography’s Sexual Orientations: Queering the Where, the What, and the How
John Paul Catungal and Micah Hilt
11. Political Geographies: Assemblage Theory as Methodology
Jason Dittmer, Pooya Ghoddousi, and Sam Page
12. Indigenous Geographies: Researching and De-colonising Environmental Narratives
Meg Parsons and Lara Taylor
13. Storytelling in Anti-colonial Geographies: Caribbean Methodologies with World-Making Possibilities
Shannon Clarke and Beverly Mullings
14. Historical Geographies: Geographical Antagonism and Archives
David Beckingham and Jake Hodder
15. Black Geographies: Methodological Reflections
Renato Emerson dos Santos and Priscilla Ferreira
16. Digital Geographies and Everyday Life: Space, Materiality, Agency
Casey R. Lynch and Bahareh Farrokhi
17. GIS Science: Addressing Aggregation and Uncertainty
Hyeongmo Koo and Yongwan Chun
18. Health Geographies and Big Data Adventures: Methodological innovations, opportunities and challenges
Malcolm Campbell and Lukas Marek
19. Geographies of Disability: On the potential of Mixed Methods
Sandy Wong and Diana Beljaars
20. Methodologies for Animal Geographies: Approaches Within and Beyond the Human
Guillem Rubio-Ramon and Krithika Srinivasan
21. Urban Geographies: Comparative and Relational Urbanism
Kevin Ward
22. Economic Geographies: Navigating Research and Activism
Kelly Dombroski and Gerda Roelvink
23. Geographies of Education: Data, Scale/Mobilities and Pedagogies
Yi’En Chen and Menusha De Silva
24. Children’s Geographies: Playing with Participatory Methods
Nicole Yantzi and Janet Loebach
25. Anarchist Research Within and Without the Academy: Everyday Geographies and the Methods of Emancipation
Richard J. White and Simon Springer
Part III: Cross-cutting Issues in Human Geography Methodologies
Stephanie E. Coen
26. Politics, Institutions and Place: Researching Sensitive Subjects in Urban Contexts
Peter Hopkins and Robin Finlay
27. Navigating Ruralities in Human Geography Research: Reflections from Fieldwork in Complex Rural Settings
Moses Kansanga, Elijah Bisung and Isaac Luginaah
28. Participatory Geographies: From Community-Engaged to Community-Led Research
Heather Castleden and Paul Sylvestre
29. The Methodological Implications of Integrating Lived Experience in Geographic Research on Inequalities
Claire Thompson
30. What Role for More-Than-Representational, More-Than-Human Inquiry?
Richard Gorman and Gavin Andrews
31. Dear Feminist Collective: How Does One Take Up Slow Scholarship (in the Midst of Crises)?
Jenna M. Loyd, Stepha Velednitsky, Ileana I. Diaz, Sameera Ibrahim, Carla Giddings, Kela Caldwell, Roberta Hawkins, Alison Mountz and Anne Bonds
32. Refining research methodologies to make a difference in policy
Carolyn DeLoyde and Warren Mabee
Biography
Sarah A. Lovell is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Stephanie E. Coen is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Mark W. Rosenberg is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Planning and cross-appointed as a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
