Key Texts in Human Geography

Phil Hubbard is Professor in Urban Studies in the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research.  Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences. Professor Valentine has held prestigious international visiting fellowships at the Universities of Sydney, Australia and Otago, New Zealand and has visited and given keynote addresses at a range of prestigious international conferences. She was co-founder and co-editor of the international journal Social and Cultural Geography, and co-edited Gender, Place and Culture. She has undertaken international research in Europe, Africa and the USA and is committed to developing the University of Sheffield′s international strategy within the Faculty of Social Sciences.

A book that will delight students… Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject′s landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation. The commissioned essays aim to assess the impacts, responses, significance and legacies of the books they discuss while evaluating their key arguments and providing a guide to how they should be read. In this sense, the book is brilliantly successful. The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through…For those students who would have engaged with the original texts anyway, this will be an invaluable companion; for many others, it will be an invaluable crib sheet… for my money, this is as good a list as any and one that accurately reflects the curricula of the courses for which it is designed… it will find itself at the top of a thousand module handoutsTHE Textbook Guide Key Texts in Human Geographywill surely become a ‘key text’ itself. Read any chapter and you will want to compare it with another. Before you realize, an afternoon is gone and then you are tracking down the originals… Prof James D SidawaySchool of Geography, University of Plymouth An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very coreBarney WarfFlorida State University

• Torsten Hagerstrand ′Innovation Diffusion as Spatial Process′ (1953) - Bo LenntropWilliam Bunge ′Theoretical Geography′ (1962) - Michael F. GoodchildPeter Haggett ′Locational Analysis in Human Geography′ (1965) - Martin CharltonDavid Harvey ′Explanation in Geography′ (1969) - Ron JohnstonKevin Cox ′Conflict, Power and Politics in the City′ (1973) - Andy WoodEdward Relph ′Place and Placelessness′ (1976) - David Seamon and Jacob SowersYi-Fu Tuan ′Space and Place′ (1977) - Tim CresswellDavid Harvey ′The Limits to Capital′ (1982) - Noel CastreeNeil Smith ′Uneven Development′ (1984) - Martin PhillipsDoreen Massey ′Spatial Divisions of Labour′ (1984) - Nick PhelpsWomen in Geography Study Group ′Geography and Gender′ (1984) - Susan HansonDenis Cosgrove ′Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape′ (1984) - David GilbertStuart Corbridge ′Capitalist World Development′ (1986) - Satish KumarPeter Dicken ′Global Shift′ (1986) - Jonathan BeaverstockDavid Harvey ′The Condition of Postmodernity′ (1989) - Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones IIIEdward Soja ′Postmodern Geographies′ (1989) - Claudio MincaMichael Storper and Richard Walker ′The Capitalist Imperative′ (1989) - Neil CoeDavid Livingstone ′The Geographic Tradition′ (1992) - Nick SpeddingGillian Rose ′Feminism and Geography′ (1992) - Robyn Longhurst Derek Gregory ′Geographical Imaginations′ (1995) - John PicklesDavid Sibley ′Geographies of Exclusion′ (1995) - Phil HubbardGearoid O′Tuathail ′Critical Geopolitics′ (1996) - Jo SharpTrevor Barnes ′Logics of Dislocation′ (1996) - Philip KellySarah Whatmore ′Hybrid Geographies′ (2002) - Sarah DyerAsh Amin and Nigel Thrift ′Cities′ (2002) - Alan LathamDoreen Massey ′For Space′ (2005) - Ben Anderson