Writing and reading human geography

This article responds to renewed interest in questions of genre and style as they relate to the writing practice of human geographers in three ways: by providing an overview of the historical foundations of this interest; by reconsidering the definition of geographical writing; and by drawing attention to the value of specifically geographical reading practices. It argues that an approach to academic geography and literary texts able to read them as two genres of a broader category of geographical writing can usefully highlight the inseparability of the geo and its graphing .