Reading Assignments for Geog 620

Winter, 2007

NOTE: Reading for Guest Lectures NOT included

 

DoHG and DoPG refer to the Dictionaries of Human and Physical Geography, respectively

 

 

Feb 7 – Research writing and Proposals

 

Limerick, Patricia Nelson.  1993.  “Dancing With Professors:  The Trouble With Academic Prose.”  The New York Times Book Review, October 31, pp. 3, 23-24.

 

Gregory, Derick. 2005. “Geographies, Publics, and Politics,” part of a forum on “The Role of Geography in Public Debate, A. B. Murphy, ed. Progress in Human Geography, 29 (2), pp. 182-190.

 

 

Feb. 12 - H&T – pre 20th Century

 

Martin, Geoffrey J., and James, Preston E.  1993.  All Possible Worlds:  A History of Geographical Ideas, 3rd ed.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons, chapters 6 and 15.

 

DoHG – Entry on “exploration,” “anthropogeography”

 

DoPG – Entry on “Darwinism,” “evolution”

 

 

Feb. 14 & 19 - H&T – 1900 – 1950

 

Martin, Geoffrey J., and James, Preston E.  1993.  All Possible Worlds:  A History of Geographical Ideas, 3rd ed.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons, chapter 16.

 

Semple, Ellen C., “Influences of Geographic Environment on the basis of Ratzel’s System of Anthrpogeographie. New York: Henry Holt, exptracts from preface and chapter 1 as reprinted in part in J. Agnew, D. Livingston, and A. Rogers, Human Geography: An Essential Anthology.  Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, pp. 252-267.

 

Carl Sauer, “The Morphology of Landscape,” University of California Publications in Geography, 2 (2), 1925, 19-54, as reprinted in part in J. Agnew, D. Livingston, and A. Rogers, Human Geography: An Essential Anthology.  Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, pp. 296-315.

 

Richard Hartshorne, “The Character of Regional Geography,” in The Nature of Geography (AAG, 1939), pp. 436-44 of 1961 edition, as reprinted in part in J. Agnew, D. Livingston, and A. Rogers, Human Geography: An Essential Anthology.  Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, pp.388-397.

 

Leighley, J. 1955. What has happened to physical geography? Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 55(4): 309-318  (available in the file drawer in 108 Condon).

 

DoHG – Entries on “paradigm,” “environmental determinism,” “areal differentiation,” “landscape,” “regions and regional geography”

 

DoPG – Entries on “cycle of erosion,” “peneplain, ” “climate classification” “climatic geomorphology,” “climax vegetation,” “succession”

 

 

Feb. 21 –  H&T – Roots of Quantitative Rev.

 

Skim the following:  Schaefer, Fred K. 1953. Exceptionalism in geography: A methodological examination. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 43 (3): 226-49.

 

Read:

 

Morill, Richard L.  1984.  “Recollections of the ‘Quantitative Revolution’s Early Years:  The University of Washington 1955-65.”  In M. Billinge, D. Gregory, and R. Martin, eds., Recollections of a Revolution:  Geography as Spatial Science.  London:  MacMillan, 57-72.

 

Nystuen, John, “Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts.” Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 48, 373-384, 1963, reprinted in part in J. Agnew, D. Livingston, and A. Rogers, Human Geography: An Essential Anthology.  Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, pp.590-599.

 

DoHG – Entries on “quantitative revolution,” “positivism,” “location analysis,” “central place theory,” “von Thünen model”

 

 

Feb. 26 – H&T – Wake of the Quantitative Rev.

 

Golledge, Reginald G. 1979. The Development of Geographical Analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 69 (1): 151-54.

 

Gould, Peter. 1979. Geography 1957-1977: The Augean Period. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 69 (1): 139-51.

 

DoHG – Entries on “quantitative revolution,” “location theory,” “population geography,” “ neo-classical economics,” “mental maps,” “diffusion”

 

DoPG – Entries on “stochastic models,.” “stochastic processes,” “hydraulic geometry”

 

 

Feb. 28 - H&T – Resurgence of Physical Geography, 1950s through 1970s

 

Revisit Leighley, 1955.

 

Thornthwaite, C.W., 1961.  The task ahead.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 51(4):345-356.

 

Bios: Sack, Dorothy, 2004.  Experiences and viewpoints of selected women geomorphologists from the mid-20th Century. Physical Geography 25(5): 438-452.

 

Marcus, W.A. and Marcus, M.G., 1996. “Geographer, Explorer, Friend: The Worlds of Barry C. Bishop, 1932-1994.”  Mountain Research and Development, 16(3): 192-198.

 

Browning, C.E., 1982. Melvin G. Marcus, in Conversations with geographers: career pathways and research styles. Chapel Hill, NC, Dept. Geography, University of North Carolina, . pp. 75-91.

 

DoPG – Entries on “equilibrium,” “systems”  “environmental impact,” “environmental impact statement,” “environmental issue”

 

 

Mar. 5 –  H&T – Alternatives to positivism in Human Geography (70s)

 

Harvey, David. 1984. On the History and Present Condition of Geography: An Historical Materialist Manifesto. Professional Geographer 36 (1): 1-11.

 

Tuan, Yi-Fu. 1979. Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective. In Philosophy in Geography, eds., Stephan Gale and Gunnar Olsson, 387-428. Boston: D. Reidel.

 

Jackson, P., and Smith, S. J., 1984.  Exploring Social Geography.  London:  Allen & Unwin, pp. 1-11 of the introduction.

 

DoHG – Entries on “structuralism,” “Marxist geography,” ”structural Marxism,”  “uneven development,” “humanistic geography,” “place”

 

 

Mar. 7 – H&T - Physical Geography in the late 20th Century

 

James, L.A. and Marcus, W.A., 2006, The human role in changing fluvial systems: Retrospect, inventory, prospect. Geomorphology 79(1-2): 152-171

 

Gleick, James, 1987.  Chaos: Making a new science. Penguin Books, p. 1-56.

 

DoPG – Entries on “nonlinear system,” “threshold, geomorphological” “carbon dating” (also note many other entries under “dating” in the index), “digital image processing”

 

Mar. 12 - H&T – Alternatives to positivism in Human Geography (80s)

 

McDowell, Linda and Massey, Doreen, “A Woman’s Place?”  In Geography Matters, eds. D. Massey and J. Allen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 128-147.

 

Harley, J. B., “Deconstructing the Map,” Cartographica 26, 1989, 1-20.

 

Gregory, Derek, “Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography,” in Horizons on Human Geography, D. Gregory and  R. Walford, eds.  London: Macmillan, 1989, pp. 67-96.

 

DoHG – Entries on “structuration theory,” “realism,” “modernity,” “postmodernism,” “feminist geographies”