Overview

This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences. Human Geography and Professional Mobility seeks to encourage, influence, and help students understand geographic concepts based on critical reflections, international experiences, and practical insight laid out in stories of real people, real geographers, and real college faculty, that students can relate to. This volume is less theoretical and more personal insight-based, wherein first-hand and personal accounts of practical experiences are explored, which renders the text supplementary reading for human geography, population geography, world geography, and migration/mobility classes. With critical navigation of spaces in response to several geographical questions, this book offers a novel perspective on professional mobility of geographers which will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of geography, tourism, sociology, and anthropology.

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Author:   Weronika Kusek (Northern Michigan University, USA) ,  Nicholas Wise (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367133054

ISBN 10:   0367133059
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   07 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of figures List of boxes Contributor bios 1 Experience, mobility, professional narratives, and human geography WERONIKA A. KUSEK AND NICHOLAS WISE 2 Population geographies of Brazil: a geographer’s personal and professional viewpoints ALAN P. MARCUS 3 Migration: how international fieldwork helped me embrace my immigrant identity WERONIKA A. KUSEK 4 Geography of a life: a woman’s journey in place and culture HANIEH HAJI MOLANA 5 Working among regions: understanding identity and ethnicity in a globalized world through India and its diaspora CHRISTABEL DEVADOSS 6 Engaging in fieldwork in Paris DAVID H. KAPLAN 7 Seeking sense of place: reflections on study abroad, becoming an international geographer, and living a mobile lifestyle NICHOLAS WISE 8 Doing linguistic geography research: field experiences from Galicia, Spain KATHRYN L. HANNUM 9 Political geography: sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and governance in an island context CADEY KORSON 10 Nature, culture, and tourism in the Caribbean VELVET NELSON 11 A secret affair: researching Ireland’s Catholic Mass Rocks HILARY BISHOP 12 Urban and environmental geographies: challenges and successes of fieldwork in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania SARAH L. SMILEY 13 Understanding geography through international experiences: a student perspective MICHAELA L. GAWRYS AND J. TODD NESBITT 14 Framing your own narratives: reflecting on personal and professional development NICHOLAS WISE AND WERONIKA A. KUSEK Index

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Weronika A. Kusek is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Northern Michigan University. Weronika is a native of Poland, an immigrant to the US, and a former international student. Her research interests stem from her personal experiences. The primary focus of her research has been the phenomenon of mass Polish migration to the UK after Poland joined the European Union in 2004. Nicholas Wise is Reader International Urban Change at Liverpool John Moores University. His academic focus on sense of place, place image, and regeneration links to his background in human geography (PhD, Kent State University), and he has focused on a range of cases in the Dominican Republic, Croatia and Serbia. Originally from the United States, he has worked in Scotland, England and Taiwan.

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