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Confluences of human and physical geography research on the outdoors: an introduction to the special section on ‘Exploring the outdoors’
Author(s) -
Couper Pauline,
Yarwood Richard
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01053.x
Subject(s) - special section , section (typography) , bridge (graph theory) , sociology , human geography , boundary (topology) , geography , social science , computer science , engineering , engineering physics , operating system , mathematical analysis , mathematics , medicine
This special section of Area demonstrates the multiple ways that geographers engage with the outdoors. Human and physical geographers have pursued different paths of academic research on the outdoors, ranging from ‘objective’ empirical epistemologies to understandings of outdoor spaces as socially constructed. The special section highlights that more‐than‐representational accounts and more‐than‐scientific encounters have the potential to bridge human and physical geographies and lead to new understandings of the outdoors. In this editorial overview we argue for the outdoors as a site of boundary crossing between human and physical, and between ‘academic’ and ‘explorer’, geographies.