Human Geography TodayISBN: 978-0-7456-2189-0
Paperback
352 pages
January 1991, Polity
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Human Geography - with its concern for space, place and nature - has over recent years moved to the center of much theoretical debate in the social sciences and humanities. Moreover, the exchange has been two-way - human geography has itself increasingly welcomed the importation of work from other areas of academe. This book takes up the promise and challenge of this new-found prominence and openness and explores the future for the discipline.
Human Geography Today brings together a range of
internationally recognized authors, all of whom have explored this
new interface, and each of whom here proposes future directions for
their part of the discipline. The book considers the increasingly
challenged dichotomy between the social and the natural, the
meaning and significance of the geographical imagination, the
increasing prominence of debates over difference and identity and
their relationship to spatiality, the imperative of recognizing the
thoroughly mutual constitution of spatiality and power, and - after
all - how we might in these changing times most productively
re-imagine space and place themselves.
This book will be invaluable for students and academics in human geography, social theory, cultural studies, and politics.