Roger Lee & Noel Castree 
The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography, 2v 

Superb! How refreshing to see a Handbook that eschews convention and explores the richness and diversity of the geographical imagination in such stimulating and challenging ways.


– Peter Dicken, University of Manchester



‘Stands out as an innovative and exciting contribution that exceeds the genre.’


– Sallie A. Marston, University of Arizona



‘Captures wonderfully the richness and complexity of the worlds that human beings inhabit… This is a stand-out among handbooks!’


– Lily Kong, National University of Singapore



‘This wonderfully unconventional book demonstrates human geography’s character and significance not by marching through traditional themes, but by presenting a set of geographical essays on basic ideas, practices, and concerns.’


– Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon

‘This SAGE Handbook stands out for its capacity to provoke the reader to think anew about human geography …  essays that offer some profoundly original insights into what it means to engage geographically with the world.’


– Eric Sheppard, UCLA



Published in association with the journal
Progress in Human Geography, edited and written by the principal scholars in the discipline, this Handbook demonstrates the difference that thinking about the world geographically makes.



Each section considers how human geography shapes the world, interrogates it, and intervenes in it. It includes a major retrospective and prospective introductory essay, with three substantive sections on:

• Imagining Human Geographies


• Practising Human Geographies


• Living Human Geographies

The Handbook also has an innovative multimedia component of conversations about key issues in human geography – as well as an overview of human geography from the Editors.



A key reference for any scholar interested in questions about what difference it makes to think spatially or geographically about the world, this Handbook is a rich and textured statement about the geographical imagination.

Tabla de materias

VOLUME ONE

Part I: Imagining Human Geographies

Place – Tim Cresswell

Mobilities – Johanna Waters

Spatialities – Jacques Lévy

Difference – Katharyne Mitchell

More-than-Human Geographies – Beth Greenough

Society-Nature – Andrea Nightingale

Transformations – Dan Clayton

Critique – Alastair Bonnett

Geo-historiographies – Trevor Barnes

Part II: Practising Human Geographies

Capturing (GIS) – Matt Wilson and Sarah Elwood

Noticing – Eric Laurier

Representing – Anna Barford

Writing (somewhere) – Juliet Fall

Researching – Meghan Cope

Producing – Mia Gray

Engaging – Jane Wills

Educating – Avril Maddrell and Jenny Hill

Advocacy – Audrey Kobayashi

VOLUME TWO

Part III: Living Human Geographies

Ethics – Elizabeth Olson

Economy – Marianna Pavlovskaya and Kevin St Martin

Society – Jamie Winders

Culture – Patricia Price

Politics – David Featherstone

Words – Christopher Philo and Cheryl Mc Geachan

Power – Louise Amoore

Development – Kate Wills

Bodies – Rachel Silvey and Jean-Francois Bissonnette

Identities – Robyn Dowling and Katherine Mc Kinnon

Demographies – Elspeth Graham

Health – Matt Sparke

Resistance – Sarah Wright

Part IV: Appendix- Transcriptions

Online Video Conversations

Why Human Geography?: an editorial conversation – Roger Lee, Noel Castree, Sarah Elwood, Rob Kitchin and Susan Roberts

Geography and geographical thought – David Livingstone and Doreen Massey

Nature and Society – Susan Owens and Sarah Whatmore

Geography and geographical practice – Katherine Gibson and Susan J Smith

Sobre el autor

Professor Charles W J Withers is Ogilvie Chair of Geography and Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a professor in Edinburgh since 1994. He is a fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and the Royal Historical Society. In 2008, he was awarded the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in recognition of his ‘outstanding and sustained contribution to historical geography, the history of cartography and to the history of geographical knowledge’. In 2012, he was awarded the Founders’ Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. This, one of the Society′s two Royal Gold Medals, was given in respect of his ‘world-leading encouragement and development of historical and cultural geography’.         Professor Withers′ research and teaching interests centre on the historical geography of science and the Enlightenment, the historical geographies of print and exploration, and the history of cartography. He is the author or co-author of ten research monographs, and a further nine co-edited volumes, in addition to numerous scholarly articles and essays. His co-authored Scotland: Mapping the Nation (written with Chris Fleet and Margaret Wilkes), which was published in 2011 by Birlinn Press in association with the National Library of Scotland, was the Scottish Research Book of the Year in the Saltire Society Literary Awards for 2012.         His most recent book, co-authored with Innes Keighren and Bill Bell, is Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859′. This was published by the University of Chicago Press in May 2015. In 2015, he was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to the position of Geographer Royal for Scotland, the first person to hold this title as a personal honorific for 118 years. He is currently writing a historical geography of the Prime Meridian, a narrative for which we know the solution (‘Greenwich, from 1884’) but not the problem.