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"This book explores an innovative set of critical narratives, accounts and engagements by different authors about their professional mobility and how that relates to the discipline and their life experiences. Human Geography and Professional Mobility seeks to encourage, influence, and help students understand geographic concepts based on critical reflections, international experiences, and practical insight laid out in stories of real people, real geographers, real college faculty, that students can relate to. This volume is less theoretical and more personal insight-based, wherein first-hand and personal accounts of practical experiences are explored, which renders the text supplementary reading for human geography, population geography, world geography, and migration/mobility classes. With critical navigation of spaces in response to several geographical questions, this book offers a novel perspective on professional mobility of geographers which will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of geography, tourism, sociology and anthropology"--

Experience, mobility, professional narratives and human geography / Weronika A. Kusek & Nicholas Wise -- Population geographies of Brazil : a geographer's personal and professional viewpoints / Alan P. Marcus -- Migration : how international fieldwork helped me embrace my immigrant identity / Weronika A. Kusek -- Geography of a life : a woman's journey in place and culture / Hanieh Haji Molana -- Working between regions : understanding identity and ethnicity in a globalized world through India and its diaspora / Christabel Devadoss -- Engaging in fieldwork in Paris / David H. Kaplan -- Seeking sense of place : reflections on study abroad, becoming an international geographer and living a mobile lifestyle / Nicholas Wise -- Doing linguistic geography research : field experiences from Galicia, Spain / Kathryn L. Hannum -- Political geography : sovereignty, indigenous rights, and governance in an island context / Cadey Korson -- Nature, culture and tourism in the Caribbean / Velvet Nelson -- A secret affair : researching Ireland's Catholic mass rocks / Hilary Bishop -- Urban and environmental geographies : challenges and successes of fieldwork in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Sarah L. Smiley -- Understanding geography through international experiences : a student perspective / Michaela Gawrys & J. Todd Nesbitt -- Framing your own narratives : reflecting on personal and professional development / Nicholas Wise & Weronika A. Kusek.

This volume of essays highlights the autobiogeographies of eight selected geographers who are university faculty members and work and reside in the United States. Drawing from various geographical narratives, the contributors explore their trajectories and how they have navigated their personal and professional transnational livelihoods in the United States.