Noel Castree is a Professor of Society & Environment at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has applied Marxist political economy to understand global environmental change and policy. His recent research explores how different forms of expertise jostle to gain traction in public understandings of the Earth and its future trajectories. He is the managing editor of the peer review journal Progress in Human Geography, co-editor of the book David Harvey: A Critical Reader (2007) and author of Making Sense of Nature (2014). His recent articles have appeared in Anthropocene Review, Environmental Humanities and Ambio, among others.

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• VOLUME ONEPART ONE: HISTORIES, PHILOSOPHIES AND POLITICSHistories of Geographical KnowledgesTropical Hermeneutics and the Climatic Imagination - David LivingstoneWriting Travels: Power, Knowledge and Ritual on the English East India Company′s Voyages - Miles OgbornThe Political Pivot of Geography - Gerry KearnsBetween Regions: Science, Militarism and American Geography from World War to Cold War - Trevor Barnes and Matt FarishThe Meaning and Social Origins of Discourse on the Spatial Foundations of Society - Allen ScottPhilosophies in Human GeographyThe Culture of Epistemology - Ulf StrohmayerPostmodernist Thought in Geography: A Realist View - Andrew SayerStrategic Positivism - Elvin WylySpatialising the Subject of Feminism - Geraldine PrattSection Three: Situated KnowledgesCook′s Tour - Derek GregorySituated Knowledges: Positionality, Reflexivity and Other Tactics - Gillian RoseThe Limits of Responsibility: A Postcolonial Politics of Academic Knowledge Production - Tariq Jazeel and Colin McFarlanePolitics and Ethics in Human GeographySocial Justice Revisited - David SmithDevelopment Ethics: Distance, Difference, Plausibility - Stuart CorbridgePoststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community - E. Jeffrey PopkePractical Orientalism: Bodies, Everyday Life and the Construction of Otherness - Michael Haldrup, Lasse Koefoed and Kirsten SimonsenVOLUME TWOIntra-Disciplinary Divides and DebatesGeography as an Art - Donald MeinigGeographic Information Science - Michael GoodchildGeography: Coming Apart at the Seams? - Ron JohnstonBeyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies - Mei-Po KwanPART TWO: THEORIES, METHODS AND PRACTICESTheory and TheorizingTowards Minor Theory - Cindi KatzUnderstanding Diversity: The Problem Of/For Theory - Linda McDowellFuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies - Anne MarkusenNumbering, Modelling and Interpreting From Models to Marx - David HarveyQuantitative Geography: Representations, Practices and Possibilities - Eric SheppardArguments for a Humanistic Geography - Stephen DanielsDenaturalizing Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism - Gillian HartFieldwork Masculinist Epistemologies and the Politics of Fieldwork in Latin Americanist Geography - Juanita SundbergFor Ethnography - Steve HerbertThe Rigours of an Arctic Experiment: The Precarious Authority of Field Practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958-1970 - Richard PowellMaps and mappingsCartography without Progress: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Map-Making - Matthew EdneySubverting Cartography: The Situationists and Maps of the City - David PinderRethinking Maps - Rob Kitchin and Martin DodgeVisuality and visual methodsVisuality - Fraser MacDonaldFeminist Visualization: Re-Envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research - Mei-Po KwanImagining Geographies of Film - Stuart Aitken and Deborah DixonDigging in to Google Earth: an Analysis of Crisis in Darfur - Lisa ParksVOLUME THREEResearching and interveningGeography and Public Policy: The Case of the Missing Manifesto - Ron Martin′Give Up Activism′ and Change the World in Unknown Ways: Or, Learning to Walk With Others on Uncommon Ground - Paul ChattertonParticipatory GIS: A People′s GIS - Christine DunnRadical Scholarship: A Polemic on Making a Difference Outside the Academy - Don MitchellPART THREE: KEY CONCEPTSTheorizing spaceThe Spatio-Temporality of Capitalism - Noel CastreePower, Modernity and Historical Geography - Cole HarrisPhilosophy and Politics of Spatiality: Some Considerations - Doreen MasseySpace: The Fundamental Stuff of Geography - Nigel ThriftGlobalization and Geographical ScaleThe Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality - Eric SheppardAfter Geopolitics? From The Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics - Deborah Cowen and Neil SmithQuerying Globalization - Julie-Kathie Gibson-GrahamHuman Geography without Scale - Sallie Marston, John Paul Jones and Keith WoodwardPlaces and Everyday LifeA Day in the Life - Allan PredDriving Places - Peter MerrimanThe Effacement of Place: US Foreign Policy and the Spatiality of the Gulf Crisis - Gearoid O′TuathailVOLUME FOURLandscapes Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea - Denis CosgroveDead Labor and the Political Economy of Landscape - Don MitchellClimate, Race and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India - Judith KennyPerforming On the Landscape versus Doing Landscape - Kenneth OlwigRegions Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography - Edward SojaRegions, Globalization, Development - Michael Storper and Allan ScottRegions Unbound: Towards a New Politics of Place - Ash Amin Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing Regional Identity - Anssi PaasiTerritory and BorderlandsBorders on the Mind: Re-Framing Border Thinking - John AgnewLand, Terrain, Territory - Stuart EldenBesieging Cartographies - Derek GregoryStateless by Design - Alison MountzPART FOUR: NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE NON-HUMANPolitical Economies of Environment and Natural Resources The Production of Nature - Neil SmithCalifornia′s Golden Road to Riches: Natural Resources and Regional Capitalism, 1848 - 1940 - Richard WalkerThe Political Economy of a Crisis - Scott PrudhamResource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria - Michael WattsSocial Vulnerability and Un/Natural Hazards The Space of Vulnerability: The Causal Structure of Hunger and Famine - Michael Watts and Hans BohleWhite Death - Kris Olds, James Sidaway and Matt SparkeThe Geopolitical Economy of Resource Wars - Philippe Le BillonVOLUME FIVEPolitical EcologiesConverting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in the Gambia - Judith CarneyLandscapes of Disaster: Water, Modernity and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai - Matt GandyHuman Geography and the ′New Ecology′: The Prospect and Promise of Integration - Karl ZimmererProducing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn - Paul Robbins and Julie SharpCultures of ′Nature′Unstable Climates: Exploring the Statistical and Social Constructions of ′Normal′ Climate - Mike HulmeBuried Epistemologies: The Politics of Nature in (Post) Colonial British Columbia - Bruce BraunAgrarian Moral Economies and Neoliberalism in Brazil: Competing Worldviews and the State in the Struggle for Land - Wendy WolfordBiopolitical Geographies Foucault′s Population Geographies: Classifications, Biopolitics and Governmental Spaces - Steve LeggThe Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka - Jennnifer HyndmanExceptional Sovereignty: Guantanamo Bay and the Re-Colonial Present - Simon Reid-HenryMore-than-Human GeographiesTransspecies Urban Theory - Jennifer Wolch, Kathleen West and Thomas GainesThe Nature That Capital Can See: Science, State and Market in the Commodification of Ecosystem Services - Morgan RobertsonLiving Cities: Towards A Politics of Conviviality - Steve Hinchliffe and Sarah WhatmoreEcologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee - Jake Kosek

Noel Castree is a Professor of Society & Environment at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has applied Marxist political economy to understand global environmental change and policy. His recent research explores how different forms of expertise jostle to gain traction in public understandings of the Earth and its future trajectories. He is the managing editor of the peer review journal Progress in Human Geography, co-editor of the book David Harvey: A Critical Reader (2007) and author of Making Sense of Nature (2014). His recent articles have appeared in Anthropocene Review, Environmental Humanities and Ambio, among others.

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• VOLUME ONEPART ONE: HISTORIES, PHILOSOPHIES AND POLITICSHistories of Geographical KnowledgesTropical Hermeneutics and the Climatic Imagination - David LivingstoneWriting Travels: Power, Knowledge and Ritual on the English East India Company′s Voyages - Miles OgbornThe Political Pivot of Geography - Gerry KearnsBetween Regions: Science, Militarism and American Geography from World War to Cold War - Trevor Barnes and Matt FarishThe Meaning and Social Origins of Discourse on the Spatial Foundations of Society - Allen ScottPhilosophies in Human GeographyThe Culture of Epistemology - Ulf StrohmayerPostmodernist Thought in Geography: A Realist View - Andrew SayerStrategic Positivism - Elvin WylySpatialising the Subject of Feminism - Geraldine PrattSection Three: Situated KnowledgesCook′s Tour - Derek GregorySituated Knowledges: Positionality, Reflexivity and Other Tactics - Gillian RoseThe Limits of Responsibility: A Postcolonial Politics of Academic Knowledge Production - Tariq Jazeel and Colin McFarlanePolitics and Ethics in Human GeographySocial Justice Revisited - David SmithDevelopment Ethics: Distance, Difference, Plausibility - Stuart CorbridgePoststructuralist Ethics: Subjectivity, Responsibility and the Space of Community - E. Jeffrey PopkePractical Orientalism: Bodies, Everyday Life and the Construction of Otherness - Michael Haldrup, Lasse Koefoed and Kirsten SimonsenVOLUME TWOIntra-Disciplinary Divides and DebatesGeography as an Art - Donald MeinigGeographic Information Science - Michael GoodchildGeography: Coming Apart at the Seams? - Ron JohnstonBeyond Difference: From Canonical Geography to Hybrid Geographies - Mei-Po KwanPART TWO: THEORIES, METHODS AND PRACTICESTheory and TheorizingTowards Minor Theory - Cindi KatzUnderstanding Diversity: The Problem Of/For Theory - Linda McDowellFuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: The Case for Rigour and Policy Relevance in Critical Regional Studies - Anne MarkusenNumbering, Modelling and Interpreting From Models to Marx - David HarveyQuantitative Geography: Representations, Practices and Possibilities - Eric SheppardArguments for a Humanistic Geography - Stephen DanielsDenaturalizing Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism - Gillian HartFieldwork Masculinist Epistemologies and the Politics of Fieldwork in Latin Americanist Geography - Juanita SundbergFor Ethnography - Steve HerbertThe Rigours of an Arctic Experiment: The Precarious Authority of Field Practices in the Canadian High Arctic, 1958-1970 - Richard PowellMaps and mappingsCartography without Progress: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Map-Making - Matthew EdneySubverting Cartography: The Situationists and Maps of the City - David PinderRethinking Maps - Rob Kitchin and Martin DodgeVisuality and visual methodsVisuality - Fraser MacDonaldFeminist Visualization: Re-Envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research - Mei-Po KwanImagining Geographies of Film - Stuart Aitken and Deborah DixonDigging in to Google Earth: an Analysis of Crisis in Darfur - Lisa ParksVOLUME THREEResearching and interveningGeography and Public Policy: The Case of the Missing Manifesto - Ron Martin′Give Up Activism′ and Change the World in Unknown Ways: Or, Learning to Walk With Others on Uncommon Ground - Paul ChattertonParticipatory GIS: A People′s GIS - Christine DunnRadical Scholarship: A Polemic on Making a Difference Outside the Academy - Don MitchellPART THREE: KEY CONCEPTSTheorizing spaceThe Spatio-Temporality of Capitalism - Noel CastreePower, Modernity and Historical Geography - Cole HarrisPhilosophy and Politics of Spatiality: Some Considerations - Doreen MasseySpace: The Fundamental Stuff of Geography - Nigel ThriftGlobalization and Geographical ScaleThe Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality - Eric SheppardAfter Geopolitics? From The Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics - Deborah Cowen and Neil SmithQuerying Globalization - Julie-Kathie Gibson-GrahamHuman Geography without Scale - Sallie Marston, John Paul Jones and Keith WoodwardPlaces and Everyday LifeA Day in the Life - Allan PredDriving Places - Peter MerrimanThe Effacement of Place: US Foreign Policy and the Spatiality of the Gulf Crisis - Gearoid O′TuathailVOLUME FOURLandscapes Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea - Denis CosgroveDead Labor and the Political Economy of Landscape - Don MitchellClimate, Race and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India - Judith KennyPerforming On the Landscape versus Doing Landscape - Kenneth OlwigRegions Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography - Edward SojaRegions, Globalization, Development - Michael Storper and Allan ScottRegions Unbound: Towards a New Politics of Place - Ash Amin Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World: Deconstructing Regional Identity - Anssi PaasiTerritory and BorderlandsBorders on the Mind: Re-Framing Border Thinking - John AgnewLand, Terrain, Territory - Stuart EldenBesieging Cartographies - Derek GregoryStateless by Design - Alison MountzPART FOUR: NATURE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE NON-HUMANPolitical Economies of Environment and Natural Resources The Production of Nature - Neil SmithCalifornia′s Golden Road to Riches: Natural Resources and Regional Capitalism, 1848 - 1940 - Richard WalkerThe Political Economy of a Crisis - Scott PrudhamResource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria - Michael WattsSocial Vulnerability and Un/Natural Hazards The Space of Vulnerability: The Causal Structure of Hunger and Famine - Michael Watts and Hans BohleWhite Death - Kris Olds, James Sidaway and Matt SparkeThe Geopolitical Economy of Resource Wars - Philippe Le BillonVOLUME FIVEPolitical EcologiesConverting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in the Gambia - Judith CarneyLandscapes of Disaster: Water, Modernity and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai - Matt GandyHuman Geography and the ′New Ecology′: The Prospect and Promise of Integration - Karl ZimmererProducing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn - Paul Robbins and Julie SharpCultures of ′Nature′Unstable Climates: Exploring the Statistical and Social Constructions of ′Normal′ Climate - Mike HulmeBuried Epistemologies: The Politics of Nature in (Post) Colonial British Columbia - Bruce BraunAgrarian Moral Economies and Neoliberalism in Brazil: Competing Worldviews and the State in the Struggle for Land - Wendy WolfordBiopolitical Geographies Foucault′s Population Geographies: Classifications, Biopolitics and Governmental Spaces - Steve LeggThe Securitization of Fear in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka - Jennnifer HyndmanExceptional Sovereignty: Guantanamo Bay and the Re-Colonial Present - Simon Reid-HenryMore-than-Human GeographiesTransspecies Urban Theory - Jennifer Wolch, Kathleen West and Thomas GainesThe Nature That Capital Can See: Science, State and Market in the Commodification of Ecosystem Services - Morgan RobertsonLiving Cities: Towards A Politics of Conviviality - Steve Hinchliffe and Sarah WhatmoreEcologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee - Jake Kosek