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Sarah A. Radcliffe
Sarah Anne Radcliffe (born 1960) is a geographer and academic, who is Professor in Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. She is an editor at the ''Progress in Human Geography'' journal. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Radcliffe studied geography and anthropology at University College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1982. She then undertook postgraduate research in geography at the University of Liverpool, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1986. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Women's lives and peasant livelihood strategies: a study of migration in the Peruvian Andes". Bibliography * ''Culture and Development in a Globalizing World'' (2006) (Editor) * ''Entangling Resistance, Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador'' (2002) * ''Re-Haciendo la Nacion: lugar, identidad y politica en America Latina'' (1999) (Spanish translation of 1996 book) * ''Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographer
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" and the Greek suffix, "graphy," meaning "description," so a geographer is someone who studies the earth. The word "geography" is a Middle French word that is believed to have been first used in 1540. Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography. Geographers do not study only the details of the natural environment or human society, but they also study the reciprocal relationship between these two. For example, they study how the natural environment contributes to human society and how human society affects the natural environment. In particular, physical geographers study the natural environment while human geographers study human society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
