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The Perils and Possibilities of Hanging out with Geographers
Author(s) -
MEE KATHLEEN J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geographical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.695
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-5871
pISSN - 1745-5863
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2006.411_5.x
Subject(s) - social geography , cultural geography , human geography , geography , regional geography , sociology , social science , cartography , media studies , economic geography
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)