Making Geography Matter

Noel Castree has worked at the universities of Manchester, Wollongong and Liverpool, and the University of Technology Sydney. He is managing editor of the journals Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning F. He is author of the books What Future For the Earth? (2025) and Making Sense of Nature (2013).Trevor Barnes is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he has been since 1983. His research is in economic geography and on the post-war history of human geography. He is both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.Jennifer Salmond is Professor Physical Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a physical geographer whose research interests include urban meteorology, air pollution, climatology and critical physical geography.

• 1.IntroductionNoel Castree, Trevor Barnes and Jenny Salmond Part 1 – Making Geography2.Absolute beginner? Halford Mackinder and the popularization of geographical knowledgeEmily Hayes3.Geography as the science of environmental influences: Ellen Semple and the search for disciplinary relevanceInnes M. Keighren4.Keeping human and physical geography together: Richard Chorley and Peter Haggett’s scientific turnTrevor Barnes5.Contemporary geography: Advocating for a heterodox subjectRita GardnerPart 2 Making geographical knowledge6.Landscape and environmental change: Carl Sauer on land and lifeKent Mathewson 7.From mapping to GIScience: A sixty-year projectMichael F. Goodchild8.Radicalizing geography: The case of David Harvey’s MarxismEric Sheppard9.Open horizons from here to there: Doreen Massey’s geographiesJamie Peck10.Geographies of meaning and experience: Anne Buttimer’s lifeworldFederico Ferretti11.Landscape as a way of seeing: Denis Cosgrove’s symbolic geographiesVeronica della Dora 12.Boundaries and borders matter: Ron Johnston’s electoral geographyCharles J. Pattie13.Mobility matters: Movement, meaning and practice in the context of powerTim Cresswell14.Scale matters: The case of workers and their geographiesAndrew Herod15.Proximity, distance, and difference: The global and the intimateGerry Pratt16.Which realities are we trying to understand? The workings of a physical geographer in the quest to respect river diversityGary Brierley17.Beyond science: Climate change in a ‘wicked world’Mike Hulme18.‘Other’ geographies: Engaging with different ways of knowing, valuing, and acting in post-colonial AustraliaSue JacksonPart 3 Making geographical knowledge matter beyond Geography19.Geographers and the national state: Dudley Stamp plans Britain’s towns and countrysideTrevor Barnes20.Geographically empowering the marginalized: Bill Bunge, expeditions and mapsLuke Bergmann and Trevor Barnes21.Making other economies possible: Geographies of ethical actionKatherine Gibson22.Speaking truth to power: Microplastics and the sewage scandal from the rivers of Manchester to WestminsterJamie Woodward23.Talking geography in the public realmDanny Dorling