The politics of changing human geography's agenda

Textbooks and the representation of increasing diversity

Bibliographic Data

ID8962379
AuthorsRon Johnston (0000-0003-3031-8573, University of Bristol, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume31
Issue3
Pages286-303
Publication date2006-07-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00215.x
OpenAlexW1977896062
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited80

A discipline's changing agenda involves the introduction of new practices which challenge those already deployed and may at least partly replace them. Historians of human geography have identified several major changes over recent decades but have been less successful in accounting for them. This paper adopts a recently‐formulated model of disciplinary change, to which it adds a missing political element. It argues for the importance of mobilizing support for a new agenda among students and other new entrants to the discipline, in which textbooks can play a substantial role. Several recently‐published texts are analysed to illustrate their use as political tools in attempts to promote particular visions of human geographical practices

Discipline · Diversity (politics · Economic geography · Element (criminal law · Geography · Human geography · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law

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