A collection of autobiographical essays by geographers at various stages of their careers dealing with questions geographers are asking themselves at the turn of the century.

Description

Chronicling the history of geography entails not only the literature emerging from geographers’ pens and printers but also the geographers themselves. Why and how geographers have taken the career paths they have taken is as much importance as their scholarly output.

The contributors use autobiography as a tool to document the history of geography, as a method of data collection, or as a mode of analysis. Taken together, their work provides empirical examples of the ways geographer are engaging the critical questions raised by the changes in their field.

Table of Contents

Contributors

1. Writing One's Life, Pamela Moss

2. Home—Reach—Journey, Anne Buttimer

3. Been There, Done That, What's Next? Did Theory Smother My Discipline When I Warn 't Looking? John Eyles

A. Through the Gloss Darkly Re-Collecting My Academic Life, Kevin Archer

5. A Queer Journey to Queer Geography, Lawrence Knopp

6. "You Want to Be Careful You Don't End Up like Ian. He's All Over the Place": Autobiography in/of a11 Expanded Field, Ian Cook

7. A Self-Reflective Exploration into Development Research, Robin Roch

8. A Journey into Autobiography: A Coal Miner's Daughter, Rachel Saltmarsh

9. Autobiography, Autoethnography, and lntersubjectivity: Analyzing Communication in Northern Pakistan, David Butz

10. Many Roads: The Personal and Professional Lives of Women Geographers, Janice Monk

11. Engaging Autobiography, Pamela Moss /

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Pamela Moss is associate professor of geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Series: Space, Place and Society

5.5 x 8.5, 256 pages

January 2001