Published in association with the journalProgress in Human Geography, and edited and written by the biggest names in the field, theHandbook sets out what it is that human geography does in coming to know, assess and live the world.

Superb! How refreshing to see a Handbook that eschews convention and explores the richness and diversity of the geographical imagination in such stimulating and challenging ways.
- Peter Dicken, University of Manchester

"Stands out as an innovative and exciting contribution that exceeds the genre."
- Sallie A. Marston, University of Arizona

"Captures wonderfully the richness and complexity of the worlds that human beings inhabit... This is a stand-out among handbooks!"
- Lily Kong, National University of Singapore

"This wonderfully unconventional book demonstrates human geography’s character and significance not by marching through traditional themes, but by presenting a set of geographical essays on basic ideas, practices, and concerns."
- Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon

"This SAGE Handbook stands out for its capacity to provoke the reader to think anew about human geography ...  essays that offer some profoundly original insights into what it means to engage geographically with the world."
- Eric Sheppard, UCLA

Published in association with the journalProgress in Human Geography, edited and written by the principal scholars in the discipline, this Handbook demonstrates the difference that thinking about the world geographically makes.

Each section considers how human geography shapes the world, interrogates it, and intervenes in it. It includes a major retrospective and prospective introductory essay, with three substantive sections on:

• Imagining Human Geographies
• Practising Human Geographies
• Living Human Geographies

The Handbook also has an innovative multimedia component of conversations about key issues in human geography – as well as an overview of human geography from the Editors.

A key reference for any scholar interested in questions about what difference it makes to think spatially or geographically about the world, this Handbook is a rich and textured statement about the geographical imagination.

VOLUME ONE
Part I: Imagining Human Geographies
Place - Tim Cresswell
Mobilities - Johanna Waters
Spatialities - Jacques Lévy
Difference - Katharyne Mitchell
More-than-Human Geographies - Beth Greenough
Society-Nature - Andrea Nightingale
Transformations - Dan Clayton
Critique - Alastair Bonnett
Geo-historiographies - Trevor Barnes
Part II: Practising Human Geographies
Capturing (GIS) - Matt Wilson and Sarah Elwood
Noticing - Eric Laurier
Representing - Anna Barford
Writing (somewhere) - Juliet Fall
Researching - Meghan Cope
Producing - Mia Gray
Engaging - Jane Wills
Educating - Avril Maddrell and Jenny Hill
Advocacy - Audrey Kobayashi
VOLUME TWO
Part III: Living Human Geographies
Ethics - Elizabeth Olson
Economy - Marianna Pavlovskaya and Kevin St Martin
Society - Jamie Winders
Culture - Patricia Price
Politics - David Featherstone
Words - Christopher Philo and Cheryl McGeachan
Power - Louise Amoore
Development - Kate Wills
Bodies - Rachel Silvey and Jean-Francois Bissonnette
Identities - Robyn Dowling and Katherine McKinnon
Demographies - Elspeth Graham
Health - Matt Sparke
Resistance - Sarah Wright
Part IV: Appendix- Transcriptions
Online Video Conversations
Why Human Geography?: an editorial conversation - Roger Lee, Noel Castree, Sarah Elwood, Rob Kitchin and Susan Roberts
Geography and geographical thought - David Livingstone and Doreen Massey
Nature and Society - Susan Owens and Sarah Whatmore
Geography and geographical practice - Katherine Gibson and Susan J Smith