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Foundational Moments in Geographers' Lives: Tales from the Field

The Geographical bulletin (Ypsilanti, Mich.), 2021-11, Vol.62A (2), p.49-53 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Gamma Theta Upsilon Nov 2021 ;ISSN: 0731-3292 ;EISSN: 2163-5900

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  • Title:
    Foundational Moments in Geographers' Lives: Tales from the Field
  • Author: Allen, Casey D
  • Subjects: Central business districts ; Field study ; Fieldwork ; Geography ; Irrigation water ; Students ; Study abroad
  • Is Part Of: The Geographical bulletin (Ypsilanti, Mich.), 2021-11, Vol.62A (2), p.49-53
  • Description: Talking with colleagues and students, one of two responses (sometimes both) usually crop-up when answering the question, "Why did you choose geography"? One is the discipline's broadness: geography encompasses both social and natural sciences as well as the humanities. Whether you choose to study urban sprawl, desert landforms, or ethnomusicology, you can do each (or all!) under geography's rubric. The other reply centers on "the field" - be it field trips, fieldwork, field study, field techniques, not wanting an "office" job, or some combination of those. Of course, other disciplines "do" fieldwork, utilize different field techniques, and conduct fieldtrips. But which of them lay claim to describing the entire Earth? Just geography. Yet this does not diminish the value of other academic disciplines. Rather, it makes them all the more important. Research nowadays - field-based or not - is seldom completed alone. We rely on each other for depth of knowledge. Sometimes we find sub-specialists within geography, but we still often need to engage with colleagues outside our disciplinary boundaries to complete a research project, lest we (geography) get stuck in another quantitative revolutionlike paradigm for which we are ill-prepared (Johnston and Jones 2020; Barnes 2017; Barnes 2009; Berry 1993; Newby 1980). Variety, cross-pollination, multi/inter/transdisciplinary studies...all of these lead to better understanding and, hopefully, stronger communication of (important!) findings to the masses.
  • Publisher: Ypsilanti: Gamma Theta Upsilon
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0731-3292
    EISSN: 2163-5900
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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