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Productive Interactions: Geography and the Humanities

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What are the relevance, the purpose, and the role of the broad disciplinary construct of th e humanities in higher education and in wider society today? As a social scientist — a geographer in the nature-society tradition (described below) — how do I and others in my field engage with the humanities?

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  1. Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK

    Eleonora Belfiore (Associate Professor in Cultural Policy) (Associate Professor in Cultural Policy)

  2. School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK

    Anna Upchurch (Lecturer in Cultural Industries) (Lecturer in Cultural Industries)

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Johnston, C. (2013). Productive Interactions: Geography and the Humanities. In: Belfiore, E., Upchurch, A. (eds) Humanities in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137361356_8

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