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Human Geography and Professional Mobility This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts, and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences. Human Geography and Professional Mobility seeks to encourage, influence, and help students understand geographical concepts based on critical reflections, international experiences, and practical insights laid out in stories of real people, real geographers, and real college faculty, that students can relate to. This volume is less theoretical and more personal insight-based, wherein first-hand and personal accounts of practical experiences are explored, which renders the text supplementary reading for human geography, population geography, world geography, and migration/mobility classes. With critical navigation of spaces in response to several geographical questions, this book offers a novel perspective on professional mobility of geographers which will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of geography, tourism, sociology, and anthropology. Weronika A. Kusek is Assistant Professor of Geography at Northern Michigan University. Weronika is a native of Poland, an immigrant to the US, and a former international student. Her research interests stem from her personal experiences. The primary focus of her research has been the phenomenon of mass Polish migration to the UK after Poland joined the European Union in 2004. Nicholas Wise is Reader in International Urban Change at Liverpool John Moores University. His academic focus on sense of place, place image, and regeneration links to his background in human geography (PhD, Kent State University), and he has focused on a range of cases in the Dominican Republic, Croatia, and Serbia. Originally from the United States, he has worked in Scotland, England, and Taiwan. Routledge Studies in Human Geography This series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within Human Geography. Titles will reflect the wealth of research which is taking place in this diverse and ever-expanding field. Contributions will be drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innovative areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances. Thinking Time Geography Concepts, Methods and Applications Kajsa Ellegård British Migration Globalisation, Transnational Identities and Multiculturalism Edited by Pauline Leonard and Katie Walsh Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics Edited by Thomas Jellis, Joe Gerlach, and John-David Dewsbury Object-Oriented Cartography Maps as Things Tania Rossetto Human Geography and Professional Mobility International Experiences, Critical Reflections, Practical Insights Weronika A. Kusek and Nicholas Wise For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Routledge-Studies-in-Human-Geography/book-series/SE0514 Human Geography and Professional Mobility International Experiences, Critical Reflections, Practical Insights Edited by Weronika A. Kusek and Nicholas Wise First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Weronika A. Kusek and Nicholas Wise The rights of Weronika A. Kusek and Nicholas Wise to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-13305-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-13306-1 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC For our mentor, supervisor, and friend: Professor David H. Kaplan The authors of the chapters in this book share their appreciation for the life- and career-changing experiences of international fieldwork. Many of the authors in this book also share one other characteristic – we were encouraged to have these experiences by a convincing mentor – Professor David Kaplan at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. David Kaplan has always been so vocal about the combined professional and personal value of international fieldwork that we felt drawn to incorporate international experiences in our academic growth. While not every student encounters a David Kaplan on their academic path, we hope that this book will serve as an amplifier to David Kaplan’s encouragement for readers of this book and lead to their own international journey. Contents List of figures ix List of boxes x Contributor bios xi 1 Experience, mobility, professional narratives, and human geography 1 WERONIKA A. KUSEK AND NICHOLAS WISE 2 Population geographies of Brazil: a geographer’s personal and professional viewpoints 13 ALAN P. MARCUS 3 Migration: how international fieldwork helped me embrace my immigrant identity 25 WERONIKA A. KUSEK 4 Geography of a life: a woman’s journey in place and culture 35 HANIEH HAJI MOLANA 5 Working among regions: understanding identity and ethnicity in a globalized world through India and its diaspora 46 CHRISTABEL DEVADOSS 6 Engaging in fieldwork in Paris 64 DAVID H. KAPLAN 7 Seeking sense of place: reflections on study abroad, becoming an international geographer, and living a mobile lifestyle 75 NICHOLAS WISE viii Contents 8 Doing linguistic geography research: field experiences from Galicia, Spain 88 KATHRYN L. HANNUM 9 Political geography: sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and governance in an island context 99 CADEY KORSON 10 Nature, culture, and tourism in the Caribbean 114 VELVET NELSON 11 A secret affair: researching Ireland’s Catholic Mass Rocks 126 HILARY BISHOP 12 Urban and environmental geographies: challenges and successes of fieldwork in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 140 SARAH L. SMILEY 13 Understanding geography through international experiences: a student perspective 151 MICHAELA L. GAWRYS AND J. TODD NESBITT 14 Framing your own narratives: reflecting on personal and professional development 158 NICHOLAS WISE AND WERONIKA A. KUSEK Index 167 Figures 5.1 The state of Tamil Nadu within India is highlighted 47 5.2 Signs in English and Tamil in Chennai, a major urban center and capital of Tamil Nadu 54 5.3 Signs in Hindi, Tamil, and English at a world heritage monument and tourist area 54 5.4 Sign that uses Tamil script only in rural Tamil Nadu 55 8.1 Kathryn L. Hannum in front of City Hall in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain 92 9.1 Public art/mural in the Nouméa city center 110 10.1 Standing in front of La Soufrière, a volcano in St. Vincent and the Grenadines 118 11.1 Carraig an tSeipeil, Gortnahoughtee Mass Rock, County Cork 131 11.2 Coolagh Mass Rock, County Galway 135
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