The Spaces of Postmodernity
Readings in Human Geography
Michael Dear editor Steven Flusty editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:20th Dec '01
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This Reader recounts the story of the emergence and impact of postmodern thought in human geography. The editors have brought together in a single volume the pivotal writings of the period since 1965. Through these, and their connecting narratives, the editors engage what has been the most invigorating intellectual roller-coaster ride in geography's recent history.
- Recounts the story of the emergence and impact of postmodern thought in human geography.
- Brings together in a single volume the pivotal writings of the period since 1965.
- Engages with what has been the most invigorating intellectual roller-coaster ride in geography's recent history.
- Eraces the shift in human geography from a plethora of pre-postmodern paradigms to the emergence of a postmodern consciousness.
- Outlines an agenda for a postmodern human geographical theory and practice that sympathetically intersects with feminism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, and environmentalism.
"A postmodern perspective on the development of the geographical imagination over the last thirty years. Dear and Flusty provide a timely and provocative account of the significance of space in contemporary social theory." -- Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
ISBN: 9780631217824
Dimensions: 246mm x 173mm x 28mm
Weight: 875g
508 pages