Title & Author:

Reading human geography : the poetics and politics of inquiry / edited by Trevor Barnes and Derek Gregory.

Publication:

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : Wiley, 1997.

Description:

vi, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The spaces of knowledge: contributions towards a historical geography of science / David N. Livingstone -- 2. On theborders of social theory: learning from other regions / David Slater -- 3. Getting personal: reflexivity, positionality, and feminist research / Kim V. L. England -- 4. The practice of human geography: theory and empirical specificity in the transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation / David Harvey & Allen J. Scott -- 5. Fragmentation, coherence and limits to theory in human geography / David Ley -- 6. Realism and geography / Andrew Sayer -- 7. Undestanding diversity: the problem of/for "theory" / Linda McDowell -- 8. Lines of power / Gunnar Olsson -- 9. Deconstracting the map / J. Brian Harley -- 10. Spatial metaphors and speaking positions -- 11. The matter of nature / Margaret FitzSimmons -- 12. (Re)mapping mother earth: a geographical perspective on environmental feminisms / Cathy Nesmith & Sarah A. Radcliffe -- 13. Ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and humanb societies / David Demeritt.
14. The socio-spatial dialectic / Edward Soja -- 15. Between space and time: reflections on the geographical imagination / David Harvey -- 16. Bodies in space: Foucault's account of disciplinary power / Felix Driver -- 17. The betweenness of place / J. Nicholas Entriken -- 18. A global sense of place / Doreen Massey -- 19. Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea / Denis Cosgrove -- 20. Looking at landscape: the uneasy pleasures of power / Gillian Rose -- 21. Arguments for humanistic geography / Stephen Daniels -- 22. On the determination of social action in space and time / Nigel Thrift -- 23. Human agency and human geography revisited: a critique of "new models" of the self / Stephen Pile -- 24. Unnatural discourse: "race" and gender in geography / Audrey Kobayashi and Linda Peake -- 25. Ironies of distance: an ongoing critiwue of the geographies of AIDS / Michael Brown -- 26. Mapping meaning, denoting difference, imagining identity: dialetctical images and postmodern geographies / Miachael Watts.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0340632089 (pb)
9780340632086 (pb)
0470235373 (Wiley)
9780470235379 (Wiley)
0340632097 (hb)
9780340632093 (hb)
0470235381 Wiley)
9780470235386 Wiley)

Subject:

Human geography.
Géographie humaine.
human geography.
Anthropogeografie
Poetik
Politik
Sociale geografie.
Anthropogeographie.
Anthropogeographie Postmoderne.
Postmoderne Anthropogeographie.
Geografia humana.
Géographie humaine Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.

Added entries:

Barnes, Trevor J.
Gregory, Derek, 1951-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202007
Call No.: GF41 .R3 1997
Status: Available