ISBN:
1412922607
,
1412922615
,
9781412922609
,
9781412922616
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 236 p)
,
ill, map
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Key Texts in Human Geography : A Reader Guide
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human geography
;
Anthropogeografie
Abstract:
A book that will delight students Key Texts in Human Geography is a primer of 26 interpretive essays designed to open up the subject's landmark monographs of the past 50 years to critical interpretation. The commissioned essays aim to assess the impacts, responses, significance and legacies of the books they discuss while evaluating their key arguments and providing a guide to how they should be read. In this sense, the book is brilliantly successful. The essays are uniformly excellent and the enthusiasm of the authors for the project shines through . For those students who would have engaged
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Editors' Introduction; 1 INNOVATION DIFFUSION AS SPATIAL PROCESS (1953): TÖRSTEN HÄGERSTRAND; 2 THEORETICAL GEOGRAPHY (1962): WILLIAM BUNGE; 3 LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (1965): PETER HAGGETT; 4 EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY (1969): DAVID HARVEY; 5 CONFLICT, POWER AND POLITICS IN THE CITY (1973): KEVIN COX; 6 PLACE AND PLACELESSNESS (1976): EDWARD RELPH; 7 SPACE AND PLACE (1977): YI-FU TUAN; 8 THE LIMITS TO CAPITAL (1982): DAVID HARVEY; 9 UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT (1984): NEIL SMITH
Description / Table of Contents:
10 SPATIAL DIVISIONS OF LABOUR (1984): DOREEN MASSEY11 GEOGRAPHY AND GENDER (1984): WOMEN AND GEOGRAPHY STUDY GROUP; 12 SOCIAL FORMATION AND SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE (1984): DENIS COSGROVE; 13 CAPITALIST WORLD DEVELOPMENT (1986): STUART CORBRIDGE; 14 GLOBAL SHIFT (1986): PETER DICKEN; 15 THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY (1989): DAVID HARVEY; 16 POSTMODERN GEOGRAPHIES (1989): EDWARD SOJA; 17 THE CAPITALIST IMPERATIVE (1989): MICHAEL STORPER AND RICHARD WALKER; 18 THE GEOGRAPHICAL TRADITION (1992): DAVID LIVINGSTONE; 19 FEMINISM AND GEOGRAPHY (1993): GILLIAN ROSE
Description / Table of Contents:
20 GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATIONS (1994): DEREK GREGORY21 GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION (1995): DAVID SIBLEY; 22 CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS (1996): GEARÓID ÓTUATHAIL; 23 LOGICS OF DISLOCATION (1996): TREVOR J. BARNES; 24 HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES (2002): SARAH WHATMORE; 25 CITIES (2002): ASH AMIN AND NIGEL THRIFT; 26 FOR SPACE (2005): DOREEN MASSEY; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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