Sub-discipline Of Geography Research Articles

Between electoral and urban geography: Voting patterns and socio-spatial dynamics in Tel Aviv

For decades, political geographers have extensively used electoral data to study voting behavior and political preferences. And yet, this information has been largely unnoticed by researchers in other sub-disciplines in geography. The aim of this exploratory paper is to use electoral data to study urban socio-spatial dynamics and corroborate them with existing knowledge on spatial divisions. Taking the case of the Tel Aviv electorate, we analyzed voting behavior in five Israeli general elections, alternating between those of 1984 and 2013. To look into partisanship diversity, voting patterns for the two historically largest parties (Labor and Likud) and for two parties situated on the opposite sides of the political spectrum (Meretz and Shas), were examined. The tendency to vote for center-right parties has remained stable in Tel Aviv's deprived southern neighborhoods; in the privileged northern section, support of traditional center-left parties was replaced by greater support of newly-formed center parties. An inner-city electorate has shown an ever-growing tendency to vote for center-left parties. Stability and moderate change in voting behavior are associated with stable demographic composition whereas significant change is related to demographic transition. Overall, the intra-urban geography of the vote encompasses a new interpretation of recognized socio-spatial divisions. Voting patterns are useful proxies for socio-economic data taking advantage of a more frequent and greater availability of electoral data in comparison to more conventional data.

The state of tourism geography education in Taiwan: a content analysis

This study aims to explore the state of teaching tourism geography in Taiwan based on a content analysis of 60 syllabi. The paper investigates institutes and faculties, students, teaching methods, teaching content, and assessment methods in teaching tourism geography in Taiwan. The following conclusions were reached. (1) Tourism geography curricula are primarily implemented in tourism and recreation rather than geography departments. The faculty members with doctoral degrees from geography institutes are increasingly staffed in tourism and recreation departments, while more and more faculty members in forestry, biology, and geology are teaching in the sub-discipline of geography. (2) Geography departments provide diverse and systematic education in the sub-discipline ranging from bachelor's to doctoral degree programs, while only junior college and bachelor's degrees are offered in tourism and recreation departments. (3) Teaching methods such as lecturing, group reports, and discussions are more popular among junior college and bachelor's degree programs, while lecturing, discussion, academic literature reading, and group reports are more common among master's and doctoral degrees in the sub-discipline. The teaching methods appear to be more diverse at higher degree levels. (4) Regional tourism geography is more readily available in junior college curricula, while general tourism geography is taught more in the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree curricula. (5) Subject work, mid-term exam, and final exam are more popular assessment tools among junior college and bachelor's degree education, while subject work, reports, attendance, and discussion are more common among master's and doctoral degree education. This paper will help the international academia of tourism geography to gain a better understanding of tourism geography education in Greater China.

Why children's geographies?

ABSTRACTChildren's geographies have become established as an important sub-discipline of geography. Work in this field is diverse, but is united by a recognition that children experience the world in very different ways from adults. This has led to innovative methodologies being deployed in an effort to listen to children's voices and understand how children in different circumstances see, experience and perceive places. This article introduces work in children's geographies and argues that perspectives from the sub-discipline can be used to inform teaching and research in many areas of human geography, including the post-16 curriculum.

The origins of mountain geoecology

Mountain geoecology, as a sub-discipline of Geography, stems from the life and work of Carl Troll who, in turn, was inspired by the philosophy and mountain travels of Alexander von Humboldt. As founding chair of the IGU Commission on High-Altitude Geoecology (1968), Troll laid the foundations for inter-disciplinary and international mountain research. The paper traces the evolution of the Commission and its close links with the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programme (1972-) and the United Nations University’s mountain Project (1978-). This facilitated the formation of a major force for inclusion of a mountain chapter in AGENDA 21 during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Herat Summit (UNCED) and the related designation by the United Nations of 2002 as the International Year of Mountains. In this way, mountain geoecology not only contributed to worldwide mountain research but also entered the political arena in the struggle for sustainable mountain development and the well-being of mountain people.

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK MILITARY GEOGRAPHY/EDITED BY R. MANG & H. HAUSLER

Although the relationship between Geography and the military is long-standing and well researched, books dealing with this applied sub-discipline of geography exclusively remain rare. As such, the International handbook Military Geography is both a welcome addition to a rather sparse collection of Military Geography literature, as well as a uniquely European perspective to an otherwise American-dominated body of literature.Fifty-two contributions by authors from seven different European countries appear in this publication. The stated aim of the book is to “present selected activities and products of the military geographic community as well as important and relevant activities and products of institutions outside of this community” The authors describe the purpose of the book as “[to] show the plurality of activities and products to the [military geographic] community itself, and the armed forces in general, but also to the wider public for better understanding of what military geography deals with and what it can provide.”

MILITARY GEOGRAPHY: FROM PEACE TO WAR/E.J. PALKA & F.A. GALGANO

There has always been a long-standing relationship between Geography and the military. In the book Military Geography: from Peace to War, Military Geography is defined as the “application of geographic information, tools and techniques to military problems”. In the international arena, Military Geography enjoys recognition as a formal sub-discipline with its own speciality group within the Association of American Geographers. Military Geography: from Peace to War is a welcome addition to a rather sparse literature collection of this applied sub-discipline of Geography. The book starts with an explanation of the scope of Military Geography that is extremely useful for researchers and students of Military Geography. This explanation enables one to identify the context of the operation under discussion (peacetime, stability and support operations [SASO], or war), the scale of the operation (strategic, operational or tactical), the approach used to study it (systematic, topical or regional) and the perspective of the study (applied and/or historical).

New State Spatialities:Perspectives on State, Space, and Scalar Geographies

AntipodeVolume 42, Issue 5 p. 1037-1046 New State Spatialities:Perspectives on State, Space, and Scalar Geographies Julie MacLeavy, Julie MacLeavy Department of Geography, University of Bristol, UK; julie.macleavy@bristol.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this authorJohn Harrison, John Harrison Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK; j.harrison4@lboro.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this author Julie MacLeavy, Julie MacLeavy Department of Geography, University of Bristol, UK; julie.macleavy@bristol.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this authorJohn Harrison, John Harrison Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK; j.harrison4@lboro.ac.ukSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 October 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00792.xCitations: 40Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume42, Issue5November 2010Pages 1037-1046 RelatedInformation

Cross-Disciplinarity in Australian Geography Presidential Address to the Institute of Australian Geographers? Conference, Melbourne, July 2007

The disciplinary space that geographers conceive to be theirs has all been previously possessed, or latterly colonised, by other disciplines. Geographers defend their existence on the basis of their oft-asserted, but never tested, cross-disciplinarity. The journals in which refereed papers were published by members of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) and the papers in Australian Geographical Studies were analysed for the period 1998–2002 to test the hypothesis of cross-disciplinarity in both subject and method. IAG members do strongly tend to publish in more than one disciplinary area, and a large proportion of papers in Australian Geographical Studies are integrative across subdisciplines in geography, with many using more than one methodological approach. However, transgression of the physical geography/human geography divide was sufficiently uncommon to create a statistical break between sets of subdisciplines. Based on the data used in the present paper, Australian geographers can make a case for being members of a vital, integrative discipline, likely to make substantial advances in the hybrid spaces.

Pripombe k konceptu geografije jezika

Jezik je brez dvoma eden najpomembnejših družbenih pojavov, ki ima s prostorom vrsto povezav. Medtem ko so v frankofonskih, anglofonskih in hispanskih deželah razvili neke oblike geografije jezika ali geolingvistike kot posebne geografske poddiscipline, so geografi v nemško govorečih državah temu posvetili nekaj pozornosti edino v okviru etnične geografije. Prispevek osvetljuje nekaj pomembnih prostorskih aspektov jezika in postavlja geografijo jezika kot subdisciplino kulturne geografije, ki tesno sodeluje z jezikoslovjem in zgodovino.

Geographic intersections of regional science: Reflections on Walter Isard?s contributions to geography

In his writing, analyses, and commentaries, Walter Isard contributed significantly to economic geography, inspiring a generation of economic geographers with seminal texts on industrial location and spatial economics and methods of regional analysis – a line of argumentation that explicitly incorporated abstract economic reasoning into an otherwise largely descriptive and inventory-based subdiscipline of geography. His circumscribed view of regional development and industrial location helped precipitate the emergence of the critical turn in economic geography in the late 1970s. He was the one early modern 20th century economics author to successfully wed economics and a certain perspective on space.

Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS

(2002). Care of the Subject: Feminism and Critiques of GIS. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 291-299.

GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

In the last decade, environmental management has emerged as an exciting and relevant sub-discipline of geography in South Africa in line with global trends. The paper examines the relationship between geography and environmental management in South Africa; the role that geographer's are playing in this discipline; and the future of this relationship. The paper identifies eleven themes in the environmental management literature in South Africa and suggests that geography plays a crucial role in providing the theoretical foundation for the more applied paradigm of environmental management. It is proposed that South African geographers need to develop new approaches that challenge the status quo and lead to social, environmental and ecological justice.

教科書の共通キーワードからみた人口地理学教育の基礎・基本

This study focuses on the educational context of population geography, in which common key words are extracted from population geography textbooks, considering interrelations between the key words with the presentation of the minimum essentials for population geography education.Population geography emerged as a pivotal element in geography in the 1950s and became more systematic in human geography in the 60s and 70s. The demographic revolution in population geography became evident in the 80s, redefining the subdiscipline as spatial demography. In the 90s, population geography again emphasizes its identity of being a subdiscipline of geography (Fig. 1).Eight population geography textbooks are selected, which range from an introductory guide to an advanced review of academic affairs (Table 1). The extraction of key words is based on the KWIC (key word in context) method, which extracts nouns and noun phrases from textbook contents. The results are summarized as follows (Table 2 and Fig. 2).1. It is the principal requirement of population geography education to comprehend the characteristics of “population” (key word number 1 in Table 2) from geographical perspectives. Comprehension is based on the following six subcontents : definition of “population geography” (4); process of “population growth” (8); components of “populationchange” (20); “population distribution” (22) and its spatial pattern ; contribution to “population policy” (43); and projection through “population modelling” (45).2. “Migration” (2) is the second principal common key word, which has two categories : “internal migration” (31) and “international migration” (37). The former contains intraurban “mobility” (16) and daily “circulation” (41) in some cases.3. The importance of “fertility” (7) or “mortality” (14) is lower than that of “migration” (2). But it is important to clarify “fertility pattern” (34) in a spatial context.4. In population geography, “transition” (12) is almost used as “demographictransition” (28). While, traditionally, demographic transition was regarded in the same context of vital transition, some textbooks make it possible to include mobility transition and epidemiological transition.5. The remaining common key words also play important roles as components of population geography education. Concretely, they can be expressed as follows : learning through “case study” (19); “analysis” (44) oriented to “theory” (6), “model” (21), “factor” (33), “process” (36) and “system” (40); and emphasizing “scale” (47) and “individual” (48) concepts.

The Highest Form Of The Geographer's Art∗

Abstract Geography is an integrative discipline to which society has assigned responsibility for the study of areas. It is expected to satisfy human curiosity about how much of what is where, and why it is there, in an organized manner that will facilitate comprehension and retention. Geography must be both an art and a science, because understanding the meaning of area cannot be reduced to a formal process. The discipline deals with an enormous range of phenomena and must provide a congenial home for many different kinds of practitioners. Geography has survived repeated misguided attempts to “make it into a Science” by amputating vital parts of the discipline. Systematic geography generates theories to facilitate an understanding of regions, and regional geography is the proving ground where theories are rested empirically. The idea of the region provides the essential unifying theme that integrates the diverse subdisciplines of geography. The highest form of the geographer's art is the production of evo...