- Title
- The perils and possibilities of hanging out with geographers
- Creator
- Mee, Kathleen Jeanette
- Relation
- Geographical Research Vol. 44, Issue 4, p. 426-430
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2006.411_5.x
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- In this paper I reflect on being a cultural geographer in Australia by thinking about academic groupings of geographers (which were often formerly termed as departments) as neighbourhoods,and on geography in Australia as a series of interconnected neighbourhoods. I focus on the resources we gain from being ‘in’ geography and from associating with other geographers; I consider how our neighbourhoods impact on the practice of cultural geography in Australia; and I reflect on the perils and possibilities, for cultural geographers, of hanging out with geographers. These reflections are based on my autobiographical experience as a cultural geographer in Australia, and form a small part of my reconsideration of how geography is constituted by the myriad career paths of academics in the discipline (see, for example, Moss (ed.), 2001;Barnes, 2004; Johnston, 2004).
- Subject
- cultural geographer; geographers; neighbourhoods; geography; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/28850
- Identifier
- uon:2257
- Identifier
- ISSN:1745-5871
- Language
- eng
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