Phenomenology is like wearing the glasses of human consciousness —It studies how individuals experience the world, not the world itself. 🌟 In simple words: Phenomenology focuses on how the world “appears” to us through our mind, emotions, and senses. Founder: In Human Geography:Phenomenology helps us understand how people perceive places, attach meanings to spaces, and…
Imagine if geography stopped treating places like dots on a map, and instead started asking:🌟 “How do people feel about those places?” 🌟 This is what Humanistic Geography does. It emphasizes: Key Idea: Space is not just an abstract geometric entity.Space is lived, felt, and experienced by human beings. Humanistic Geography emerged in the 1970s…
Time Geography brings together space and time to study how people move and live. 🌟 In simple terms:It studies how our daily activities are structured by both time and space — showing that where we are and when we are there shapes our life patterns. Context: Analogy:If traditional geography draws maps of places, Time Geography…
Background: Why did Behaviouralism emerge? Let’s go back to the period after the Quantitative Revolution in geography. Geographers were building complex mathematical models — like Central Place Theory — assuming that humans are perfectly rational economic beings who always make decisions logically, like emotionless robots. But on ground reality, humans were behaving very differently! Simple…
Background: Why did the Radical Approach emerge? Imagine you are in the 1970s. In the world of geography, everyone is obsessed with making it look like a “hard science” — like Physics or Chemistry.This was the era of the Quantitative Revolution and Positivism.Geographers were busy crunching numbers, building models, and talking about “location,” “distance,” and…
After understanding Idealism (mind creates reality) and Realism (reality is independent of mind), now we move to a philosophy that stands somewhere in between — practical, experience-driven, and solution-oriented:This is Pragmatism. What is Pragmatism? 🎯 Core Idea:Meaning and knowledge are constructed through experience. In simple words: Real-world analogy:Suppose you’re designing a bridge.Idealists might debate “what…
Before we dive into these philosophies, understand one thing:In Human Geography, how we view “reality” shapes how we study human actions and interpret the world.Different philosophical paradigms offer different answers to a basic question:“Is reality something outside of us or something within our minds?” Today, we’ll cover two major views: Idealism 🎯 Core Idea:Reality is…
Let us start with a very basic yet important point: “What is science and what is knowledge?”Even among philosophers, there is no consensus about this. Different thinkers have interpreted science differently. Broadly, two major schools have emerged regarding this understanding: Today, our focus is on Positivism. What is Positivism? Positivism is not just a random…
Imagine you’re trying to understand why something exists at a particular place—for instance, why a city grew near a river, or why industries developed around Mumbai. That curiosity is the essence of locational analysis. Locational Analysis is a method in Human Geography that focuses on how and why various human phenomena (like population, industry, transport,…
Imagine you’re looking at a map—not just to locate places, but to understand the deeper patterns in how those places are arranged and how they affect human life. That, in essence, is Spatial Analysis. Spatial analysis refers to the quantitative techniques used to study location patterns—how and why different features like cities, industries, or resources…
