"Doing" critical geographies with numbers

Professional Geographer

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-464

  Schwanen, Tim ^a,b   Kwan, Mei Po ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical geographies; Quantitative geography; Quantitative methods; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 74849110656     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330120903103072     Document Type: Article

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