| Description |
xvi, 400 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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| Series |
Special publications series ; 33 |
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Special publications series (Institute of British Geographers) ; 33.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The last decade has been a decade of tremendous change across the board of the human and social sciences. Ancient certainties, trusted ideologies and tested methods all came under immense pressure once so-called 'postmodern' ideas and concepts gained wider currency particularly among those with an interest in social theory. No longer content with framing social reality according to the logic of one core metaphor, the human and social sciences both rediscovered the local particularity of truth where hitherto a general explanation was deemed sufficient. In short: the revitalizing and formative power of 'space' was acknowledged once again. |
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More than ten years into the debate, the present collection of original essays seeks to assess both the impact and current state of the debate around postmodernism and the spatial social sciences. It aims not at solving contradictions and differences within the debate since such a claim would be both fruitless and immature; rather, it seeks to demonstrate the diversity of interpretations that has come about by the mutual discovery of postmodern discourses and human geography since the mid 1980s. Celebrations of postmodernity, the insistence of a continuation of modernity, interpretations of globally-emerging postmodern spaces, even the call for an analysis of hypermodernity thus coexist in the collection at hand. In-between the essays, a new discursive agenda for the spatial human sciences emerges: not to pave the way for a new orthodoxy but simply to allow for the recognition of new ideas taking root in today's academic environment. |
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This book is at once critical, provocative and accessible. It will be widely welcomed by advanced students of spatial and social theory in geography and related disciplines. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Modernity, Postmodernity and the Social Sciences / Georges Benko -- 1. Postmodern Bloodlines / Michael Dear -- 2. Social Theory, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Development / Richard Peet -- 3. Shelf Length Zero : The Disappearance of the Geographical Text / Michael Curry -- 4. Re-Presenting the Extended Moment of Danger: A Meditation on Hypermodernity, Identity and the Montage Form / Allan Pred -- 5. Identity, Space, and other Uncertainties / Wolfgang Natter and John Paul Jones -- 6. Belonging : Spaces of Meandering Desire / Ulf Strohmayer -- 7. Spatial Stress and Resistance : Social Meanings of Spatialization / Rob Shields -- 8. Lacan and Geography : the Production of Space Revisited / Derek Gregory -- 9. Planning in/for Postmodernity / Ed Soja -- 10. Warp, Woof and Regulation : A Tool for Social Science / Alain Lipietz -- 11. Institutional Reflexivity and the Rise of the Regional State / Phil Cooke -- 12. Postmodern Becomings : From the Space of Form to the Space of Potentiality / Julie Kathy Gibson-Graham -- 13. Geopolitics and the Postmodern : Issues of Knowledge, Difference and North-South Relations / David Slater -- 14. Postmodern Space and Japanese Tradition / Augustin Berque -- Imperfect Panopticism : Envisioning the Construction of Normal Lives / Matt Hannah -- Imagining the Nomad : Mobility and the Postmodern Primitive / Tim Cresswell -- Conclusion. Forget the Delivery, or, What Post are We Talking About? / Ulf Strohmayer |
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Human geography -- Philosophy.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Civilization, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00863073
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Human geography -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00963121
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01073179
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| Added Author |
Benko, Georges.
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Strohmayer, Ulf.
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| Spine Title |
Space & social theory |
| ISBN |
0631194665 (alk. paper) |
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9780631194668 (alk. paper) |
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0631194673 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780631194675 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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