Realism–or at least the 'critical realism'that I want to defend–is not what many people think it
is. Many suppose that realism claims a privileged access to the Truth and thus involves a …

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of work onthinking space relationally'. According
to its advocates, relational thinking challenges human geography by insisting on an open …

This chapter shows that geography as spatial science, emerging in the 1950s and 1960s,
replicated the obsession with the material world, albeit translating the configurations of …

Our purpose in the present book is hence is to take seriously the many tasks entailed in
conducting research on given processes and problems, certain types of societies and …

The first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, this
book is framed around his discussions with the journal Hérodote in the mid 1970s. The …

Women's studies is a rapidly expanding field with a tremendous growth in the number of
London courses available. As a result of this there has been increasing debate about the …

In 1980, to supplement my PGCE grant, I was teaching sociology to a group of 16-to-18-year-
old, white, working-class women in a northern further education college as part of their …

The theoretical tenets of poststructuralism pose significant challenges to traditional ethical
thinking, suggesting the need for an ethics sensitive to openness and difference. Drawing …

First published in 1996, this book charts the philosophical landscape of staff development at
a time when the subject of 'quality'in university teaching and learning was under …

A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography is the first guide to the main theories, concepts
and terms commonly used in geographical debates about gender relations. Written by key …