Overview

Concentrating on post-positivist geography, this book makes available important examples of contemporary texts which have informed current thinking about the nature of geography. The authors discuss the relations between geography and philosophy, to moral philosophy and to aesthetics. They identify some of the important ways in which the changing relation with philosophy has informed philosophical practice, and sketch in the historico-philosophical foundations of modern geography. However, their interest is primarily in later developments which they present in their own right, rather than as mere responses to spatial science. Editorial commentary at the beginning of each section provides essential information, and puts the selected essays in a broader context, indicating parallel debates in the other social sciences and humanities.

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Author:   Derek Gregory ,  Derek Gregory
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Arnold
Dimensions:   Width: 23.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.773kg
ISBN:  

9780340632086

ISBN 10:   0340632089
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   01 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; worlding geography - geography as situated knowledge - introduction, the spaces of knowledge - con-tributions towards a historical geography of science, on the borders of social theory - learning from other regions, getting personal - reflexivity, positionality and feminist research; grand theory and geographical practice - intro-duction, the practice of human geography - theory and empirical specificity in the transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation, fragmentation, coherencee and the limits to theory in human geography, realism and geography, understanding diversity - the of/for theory ; textuality and human geography - introduction, deconstructing the map, lines of power, spatial metaphors and speaking positions; geography and the politics of nature - introduction, the matter of nature, remapping mother earth - a geographical perspective on environmental feminism, ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and human societies; space, spatiality and spatial structure - introduction, the socio-spatial dialectic, between space and time - reflections on the geographical imagination, bodies in space - Foucault's account of disciplinary power; place and land-scape - introduction, the betweenness of place, a global sense of place, prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, looking at landscape - the uneasy pleasures of power; agents, subjects and human geography - introduction, arguments for a humanistic geography, on the determination of social action in space and time, human agency and human geography revisited - a critique of new models of the self; geography and difference - introduction, unnatural discourse - race and gender in geography, ironies of distance - an ongoing critique of the geographies of AIDS, mapping meaning, denoting difference, imagining identity; glossary; index.

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