Ron Johnston is Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol.

1. The Nature of an Academic Discipline 2. Foundations 3. Growth of Systematic Studies and the Adoption of 'Scientific Method' 4. Human Geography as Spatial Science 5. Humanistic Geography 6. 'Radical' Geographies 7. Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Postcolonialism 8. Gendered Geographies 9. Applied Geography and the Relevance Debates 10. A Changing Discipline?

Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key thinkers and schools of thought in human geography in the English-speaking world, setting them within the context of economic, social, cultural and political, as well as intellectual, changes. As such, it is essential reading for all undergraduate geography students.Key Features:- focuses on the debates among geographers regarding what the discipline should study and how- draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a fifty-year period characterised by both growth in the number of academic geographers and substantial shifts in conceptions of the discipline's scientific rationale- addresses the ways that geography and its history is understood and taught- includes recent developments in the field This extensively revised and updated seventh edition offers a thoroughly contemporary perspective on human geography for new and more experienced students alike.