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Detailed description of areas of research
- Historical geographies of knowledge production, including: the situated making of natural history; geography and imperialism; science and civil society; geographies of the Enlightenment; geographies of the book (Diarmid Finnegan, Charles Withers)
- Feminist engagements with knowledge production, including feminist methodologies (Liz Bondi, Hazel Christie, Jane Jacobs, Andrea Nightingale)
- Methodological questions for geographical research, including: GIS and society; GIS applications in human geography; qualitative methodologies; the relationship between qualitative and quantitative approaches; semiotic and visual methodologies; ethnomethodology; ethics and geography (Liz Bondi, Robert Hodgart, George Hughes, Jane M. Jacobs, Eric Laurier, William Mackaness, Nina Morris, Andrea Nightingale, Femke Reitsma, Niamh Shortt, Ignaz Strebel)
- Public policy and geographical knowledge including: risk and society, especially in the insurance sector; the uses of academic knowledge in policy practices; participatory and action research; the voluntary sector and mental health provision; GIS and policy; the scientification of the city (Liz Bondi, Hazel Christie, Paul Bennett, George Hughes, Nina Morris, Niamh Short, Ignaz Strebel)
- Alternative geographical knowledges and practices, including: traditional environmental knowledges; phenomenological, sensual and spectral geographies; art and geography (David Howard, Jane Jacobs, Eric Laurier, Nina Morris, Andrea Nightingale, Ignaz Strebel)
- Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic geographies, including psychoanalytic understandings of cultural life and the relationship between psychotherapy and other geographical knowledges and practices (Liz Bondi, Jane Jacobs)
Further details about particular areas of research within the Geographical Knowledges, Practices and Policies research theme are available from these pages.
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