Rejection and rediscovery of humanist(ic) geography

This autobiographical essay describes the personal background to my choice to study phenomenology and place, my early rejection of humanistic geography, my gradual distancing from academic geography, and my recent realisation that Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanist view of geography might offer me ways to clarify my own approach to geography and possibly to focus on the value of human experiences of environments at a time when so many things are increasingly being mediated by electronic devices and artificial intelligence.