Abstract
I’ve spent my life being a deviant. When I say that, I don’t necessarily mean in a delinquent sense (though that has been necessary at times). Rather, I mean I’ve always had to approach things differently. Things about your own life and background can help to shape and widen the ways in which we study, and how we see the world – even if you don’t realize it. For me, it was a combination of breaking my work-a-day upbringing cycle (I came from a working-class family and lived/grew-up in the Petersham suburb, west of downtown Sydney, Australia) and being the only female graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of Illinois where I pursued qualitative research during geography’s quantitative revolution. My life has been about that age-old geographical concept: find your own way.
Recommended Citation
Monk, Janice and Allen, Casey D.
(2021)
"The Deviant Geographer,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 62:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol62/iss1/9