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Postmodern geography : theory and praxis / edited by Claudio Minca.
LIBRA GF125 .P67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban geography.
- Human geography--Philosophy.
- Human geography.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
- Summary:
- Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis focuses upon one of the key themes which have served to shape disciplinary debates in geography over the past decade: the role of postmodernity and postmodern interpretations in reconfiguring our ways of framing social enquiry and our readings of space.This edited collection presents numerous perspectives on the implications of the postmodern turn for the praxis of geography. The contributors engage in debate about the epistemological bases of possible new geographical praxes - "other" possible ways of "doing geography" - while also querying the implications of postmodern approaches for geography and geographers' political role.Contributors to the Volume: Denis Cosgrove, Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Steven Flusty, Vincenzo Guarrasi, Cindi Katz, Luciana L. Martins, Claudio Minca, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja.
- Contents:
- 1 The Postmodern Turn / Michael Dear 1
- Cities...
- 2 Exploring the Postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja 37
- 3 Postmodern Geographical Praxis? The Postmodern Impulse and the War against Homeless People in the 'Post-justice' City / Don Mitchell 57
- 4 Hiding the Target: Social Reproduction in the Privatized Urban Environment / Cindi Katz 93
- Scales...
- 5 Shifting Cities / Giuseppe Dematteis 113
- 6 Adventures of a Barong: A Worm's-eye View of Global Formation / Steven Flusty 129
- 7 Rescaling Politics: Geography, Globalism, and the New Urbanism / Neil Smith 147
- Mappings...
- 8 Millennial Geographics / Denis Cosgrove, Luciana L. Martins 169
- 9 Postmodern Temptations / Claudio Minca 196
- 10 Paradoxes of Modern and Postmodern Geography: Heterotopia of Landscape and Cartographic Logic / Vincenzo Guarrasi 226
- 11 Mapping the Global, or the Metaquantum Economics of Myth / Franco Farinelli 238
- 12 Washed in a Washing Machine / Gunnar Olsson 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631225595
- 0631225609
- OCLC:
- 44972137
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