Sallie A. Marston

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Sallie A. Marston (born 1953) is an American social geographer and Regents Professor in the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment located in Tucson, Arizona. [1]

Martson is recipient of the American Association of Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (with Edward W. Soja) in 2013. [2]

Marston's noted work on "the social constriction of scale" has been published in the journal Progress in Human Geography and cited over 2600 times. [3]

As a feminist scholar of "space and place," Marston has authored and co-authored several textbooks including World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments in its 6th edition, [4] The Sage Handbook of Social Geographies, [5] and Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context. [6]

Marston's collaborators include Rachel Pain, [7] Diana Liverman, [8] Cindi Katz, [9] and Eric Sheppard with whom she writes about Neil Smith (geographer). [10]

Sallie A. Marston is the founding director of the Community and School Garden Program in Tucson, Arizona. [11]

In 2022, Dr. Marston was recipient of the Ray Davies Lifetime Humanitarian Achievement Award. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Geographer Sallie Marston Named Regents Professor". 16 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "AAG Honors".
  3. ↑ Marston, Sallie A. (2000). "The social construction of scale". Progress in Human Geography. 24 (2): 219–242. doi:10.1191/030913200674086272. S2CID   34833154.
  4. ↑ "World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments".
  5. ↑ "The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies". 5 February 2022.
  6. ↑ Knox, Paul L.; Marston, Sallie A. (8 January 2015). Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context. Pearson. ISBN   978-0321984241.
  7. ↑ The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies. SAGE Publications. 2010. ISBN   9781412935593.
  8. ↑ "Google Scholar".
  9. ↑ Mitchell, Katharyne; Marston, Sallie A.; Katz, Cindi (July 2003). "Introduction: Life's Work: An Introduction, Review and Critique". Antipode. 35 (3): 415–442. doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00333.
  10. ↑ Jones, John Paul; Leitner, Helga; Marston, Sallie A.; Sheppard, Eric (January 2017). "Neil Smith's Scale: Neil Smith's Scale". Antipode. 49: 138–152. doi: 10.1111/anti.12254 .
  11. ↑ "Staff". 7 June 2019.
  12. ↑ "23rd Ray Davies Lifetime Humanitarian Achievement Award Luncheon".


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