...this is a book motivated by the challenge faced by the discipline of geography to continue to exist as a scholarly discipline and retain its place in the British university system and beyond. It is just below the surface an exploration of the state of disciplinarity itself. The editors maintain that geography should be preserved as a "holistic entity" (p. xii). Forces arrayed against the preservation of that unity are located within the discipline in the form of specialization and beyond geography itself in its interactions with natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and technology. Will the unfettered pursuit of technologies such as global information systems make such disciplinary unity irrelevant? From within geography there is a pervasive dualism...

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