ISBN:
9780415733328
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (449 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography
Parallel Title:
Print version Remaking Human Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book highlights the increasingly important contribution of geographical theory to the understanding of social change, values, economic & political organization and ethical imperatives. As a cohesive collection of chapters from well-known geographers in Britain and North America, it reflects the aims of the contributors in striving to bridge the gap between the historical-materialist and humanist interpretations of human geography. The book deals with both the contemporary issues outlined above and the situation in which they emerge: industrial restructuring, planning, women's issues, soci
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Copyright Page; Foreword; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Epigraph; Introduction: humanism and historical materialism in contemporary social geography; Section I: Issues; 1 The social and economic imperatives of restructuring: a geographic perspective; 2 Restructuring the relations of work and life: women as environmental actors, feminism as geographic analysis; 3 Theory, hypothesis, explanation and action: the example of urban planning; 4 Synthesis in human geography: a demonstration of historical materialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Section II: Methods5 Quantitative techniques and humanistic -historical materialist perspectives; 6 Theory and measurement in historical materialism; 7 Structure and agency in economic geography and theories of economic value; 8 Responsive methods, geographical imagination and the study of landscapes; 9 A critique of dialectical landscape; Section III: Directions; 10 Historical considerations of humanism, historical materialism and geography; 11 On the dialogue between humanism and historical materialism in geography; 12 Fragmentation, coherence, and limits to theory in human geography
Description / Table of Contents:
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Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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