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Lynda Johnston
Lynda Tracy Johnston (born 1964) is a New Zealand human geography academic. She is a full professor and assistant vice chancellor sustainability at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a 1998 PhD titled '' 'Body tourism in queered streets : geographies of gay pride parades' '' at the University of Waikato, supervised by Richard Bedford, Robin Peace and Robyn Longhurst, she taught at the University of Edinburgh from 1999 to 2001. Since returning to the University of Waikato, she has been appointed as full professor, while serving as Chair of the Department of Geography and as Deputy Dean and Associate Dean Academic of Te Kura Kete Aronui (the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences). Johnston was the editor of the feminist geography journal '' Gender, Place & Culture'' from 2011 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020 Johnston was Chair of the Gender and Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Geographical Society an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Geography
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography that studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment. It analyzes spatial interdependencies between social interactions and the environment through qualitative and quantitative research methods. History Geography was not recognized as a formal academic discipline until the 18th century, although many scholars had undertaken geographical scholarship for much longer, particularly through cartography. The Royal Geographical Society was founded in England in 1830, although the United Kingdom did not get its first full Chair of geography until 1917. The first real geographical intellect to emerge in the United Kingdom was Halford John Mackinder, appointed reader at Oxford University in 1887. The National Geographic Society was founded in the United States in 1888 and began publication of the ''National Geographic'' magazine which became, and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
