From the Inside Looking out and the Outside Looking in: Whatever Happened to 'Behavioural Geography'?

• Published in: Geographical research Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 192 - 203
• Main Authors: ARGENT, N.M., WALMSLEY, D.J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne, Australia Blackwell Publishing Asia 01.06.2009
• Subjects: Academic discipline; Australia; Behaviour; Behavioural geography; Epistemology; Geography; Human geography; Perception; Structuralism

As part of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Millennium Project, this article examines the shift of behavioural geography from a cutting edge sub‐discipline to a branch of enquiry that is now much less prominent in mainstream human geography, especially in Australia. Through an explorati...