Social geography: on actionorientated research
Rachel Pain
Department of Geography and International Centre for Regional Regeneration and
Development Studies, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Progress in Human Geography 27,5 (2003) pp. 649–657
It seems that many social and cultural geographers are happy to survey (and ‘map’) the exclusionary landscape,
but rarely do much to change that landscape.
(Kitchin and Hubbard, 1999: 195)
The four years since Kitchin and Hubbard’s Area editorial on the possibilities for critical
action geographies have seen a number of commentaries and conference sessions where
ideas, encouragement and examples of action-orientated geographies have been aired.
This review and the two that follow aim to draw attention to this growing body of
research within social geography. Nonetheless, as I discuss in this first review, this
presents some difficulties in delimiting, finding and evaluating relevant work. I begin
by considering wider recent debates about social geography, and especially its relationships
with cultural geography, before suggesting that action-orientated research is one
area where distinctively social geographies are thriving. The review then maps out the
diverse modes of research which fall into this category.
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