Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and PostmodernityISBN: 978-0-631-19466-8
Hardcover
416 pages
July 1997, Wiley-Blackwell
This is a Print-on-Demand title. It will be printed specifically to fill your order. Please allow an additional 10-15 days delivery time. The book is not returnable.
|
List of Figures.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Social Sciences (Georges Benko).
Part I Reasons, Texts and Debates Around Postmodernism.
Postmodern Bloodlines (Michael Dear).
Social Theory, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Development (Richard Peet).
Shelf Length Zero: The Disappearance of the Geographical Text (Michael Curry).
Part II Writing Space, Forming Identities.
Re-Presenting the Extended Moment of Danger: A Meditation on Hypermodernity, Identity and the Montage Form (Allan Pred).
Identity, Space, and other Uncertainties (Wolfgang Natter and John Paul Jones).
Belonging: Spaces of Meandering Desire (Ulf Strohmayer).
Spatial Stress and Resistance: Social Meanings of Spatialization (Rob Shields).
Lacan and Geography: the Production of Space Revisited (Derek Gregory).
Part III Planning and the Postmodern .
Panning in/for Postmodernity (Ed Soja).
Warp, Woof and Regulation: A Tool for Social Science (Alain Lipietz).
Institutional Reflexivity and the Rise of the Regional State (Phil Cooke).
Part IV The Politics of Difference.
Postmodern Becomings: From the Space of Form to the Space of Potentiality (Julie Kathy Gibson-Graham).
Geopolitics and the Postmodern: Issues or Knowledge, Difference and North-South Relations (David Slater).
Postmodern Space and Japanese Tradition (Augustin Berque).
Imperfect Panopticism: Envisioning the Construction of Normal Lives (Matt Hannah).
Imagining the Normad: Mobility and the Postmodern Primitive (Tim Cresswell).
Conclusion.
Forget the Delivery, or, What Post are We Talking about? (Ulf Strohmayer).
Index