Society publication on work of Professor Ron Johnston released
The RGS-IBG Book Series publishes the very best of international academic scholarship from across geography and cognate disciplines. The latest publication in the series, Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline After Ron Johnston, reflects on the contribution of Professor Ron Johnston to the discipline of geography as we know it today.
Both forward-looking and thought-provoking, this volume celebrates Ron’s extensive contributions to the discipline, paying tribute to his scholarship through engagement with the ideas and concepts he developed in his research, reflecting on where his work can take us next.
Geography and a Geographer brings together contributors whose work speaks to the geographies Ron helped to shape. It offers an invitation to revisit Ron’s body of work and consider its relevance for the future of the discipline. Across the volume, authors reflect on Johnston’s intellectual legacy, including his influence on the evolution of human geography, disciplinary history and memory, mentorship, collaboration, and collegiality.
Producing a prolific research record that spanned six decades, Johnston was an insightful, thoughtful and open-minded contributor to debates and research practices in human geography, to understanding the histories and productions of geographical knowledge in modern Anglo-American geography, and to the study of electoral, political, urban, and social geographies.
The upcoming volume has already received praise from those who knew and worked with him across the discipline:
An insightful and wide-ranging collection reflecting on the prolific research record of Ron Johnston… this collection offers rich insights and timely reflections on the many geographical debates and intellectual issues that can be found in Johnston’s scholarship.Peter Hopkins, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University
This collection presents a wonderful mapping of the astonishing breadth and depth of Ron Johnston’s intellectual landscape. The possibilities for dialoguing with, dissenting from, or developing further, Ron’s legacy are amply displayed here and attest to the fertility of his writing and thought. But more than that, Geography and a Geographer evokes the kind of scholar Ron was – generous, open-minded, ever curious, always engaged. A model for us all. David N. Livingstone, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast
Along with our other recent publications with LSE Press, Geography and a Geographer is fully open access and free to read.
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