Introduction; worlding geography - geography as situated knowledge - introduction, the spaces of knowledge - con-tributions towards a historical geography of science, on the borders of social theory - learning from other regions, getting personal - reflexivity, positionality and feminist research; grand theory and geographical practice - intro-duction, the practice of human geography - theory and empirical specificity in the transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation, fragmentation, coherencee and the limits to theory in human geography, realism and geography, understanding diversity - the of/for theory; textuality and human geography - introduction, deconstructing the map, lines of power, spatial metaphors and speaking positions; geography and the politics of nature - introduction, the matter of nature, remapping mother earth - a geographical perspective on environmental feminism, ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and human societies; space, spatiality and spatial structure - introduction, the socio-spatial dialectic, between space and time - reflections on the geographical imagination, bodies in space - Foucault's account of disciplinary power; place and land-scape - introduction, the betweenness of place, a global sense of place, prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, looking at landscape - the uneasy pleasures of power; agents, subjects and human geography - introduction, arguments for a humanistic geography, on the determination of social action in space and time, human agency and human geography revisited - a critique of new models of the self; geography and difference - introduction, unnatural discourse - race and gender in geography, ironies of distance - an ongoing critique of the geographies of AIDS, mapping meaning, denoting difference, imagining identity; glossary; index.
