International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

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The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography is an academic reference work on human geography published by Elsevier in 2009 . The chief editors are Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift . It includes a foreword by Mary Robinson . The encyclopedia was published in a printed edition (12 volumes, 8250 pages) and in an online edition.

controversy

The encyclopedia became the subject of controversy before it was published because a subsidiary of Elsevier's parent company Reed Elsevier, called Spearhead Exhibitions , was active in the arms industry exhibition . As a result of a campaign coordinated by the crit-geog-forum mailing list, targeting a perceived conflict of interest between the arms trade and academic publishing, Reed Elsevier announced on June 1, 2007 that it would retire from the arms industry in the second half of this year .

proof

  1. ↑ https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=crit-geog-forum
  2. ^ Reed Elsevier confirms it will exit the defense industry shows . June 4, 2007. 
  3. ↑ Chatterton, P. and Featherstone, D. (2007) Elsevier, critical geography, and the arms trade. Political Geography, 26, 3-7 . 
  4. ↑ Hammett, D. and Newsham, A. (2007) Widening the ethical debate - Academia, activism and the arms trade. Political Geography, 26, 10-12. . 
  5. ^ Kitchin, R. (2007) Elsevier, the arms trade, and the forms, means and ends of protest - a response to Chatterton and Featherstone. Political Geography 26 (5): 499-503 . 

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