Abstract
At the heart ofthe recent debate within the Association of American Geographers concerning the format an? cont~nt of its two journals is the eclectic and interdisciplinary nature of the field of geography. As long as geography has been a component of American academe geographers have wrestled with "The Nature of Geography" (Hartshorne 1939) and "The Circumference of Geography" (Fenneman 1919) (i.e., the definition of the discipline). Today the debate has largely returned to Fenneman's "Circumference" in that many, if not most, geographers feel more akin to academicians in other fields than to other geographers. Thus, the social geographer, for example, feels a stronger bond with the sociologist than with those in remote sensing and is more likely to publish in Social Forces than in a " geography" journal while the remote sensing specialist is more likely to publish in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. The reality of the situation is that communication within the discipline fails. In effect, we are all back to working on the circumference.
Recommended Citation
Lowry, Jr., James D.
(2000)
"People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science. Edited by DianaLiverman, Emilio F. Moran, Ronald R.Rindfuss, and Paul C. Stern,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 42:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol42/iss1/7