Placing Autobiography in Geography

by Pamela Moss (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815628484
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Series:	Space, Place and Society
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

"Writing One's Life" and "Engaging Autobiography," Pamela Moss "Home-Reach-Journey," Anne Buttimer "Been There, Done That, What's Next? Did Theory Smother My Discipline When I Wasn't Looking?," John Eyles "Through the Glass Darkly: Re-Collecting My Academic Life," Kevin Archer "A Queer Journey to Queer Geography," Lawrence Knopp "You Want to be Careful You Don't End Up Like Ian. He's All Over the Place: Autobiography in/of an Expanded Field," Ian Cook "A Self-Reflective Exploration Into Development Research," Robin Roth "A Journey Into Autobiography: A Coal Miner's Daughter," Rachel Saltmarsh "Autobiography, Autoethnography, and Intersubjectivity: Analyzing Communication in Northern Pakistan," David Butz "Many Roads: The Personal and Professional Lives of Women Geographers," Janice Monk