Panoptic geographies: an examination of all U.S. geographic dissertations.
The study of geography as a discipline has often employed a top-down approach that examines the output of the field's most prominent members. In this paper, we provide a bottom-up approach by analyzing geography dissertations. We start by assembling a database that includes the title, author, date,...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Review Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 20 - 41 |
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