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Making Human Geography.
This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today. Kevin R. Cox provides an interpretive, critical perspective on Anglo-American geographic thought in the 20th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Guilford Publications,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; 1. Human Geography: The First Half Century; People and Nature Dominant; Theory and Method; Concluding Comments; 2. Long Live the Revolution!; Situating the Spatial-Quantitative Revolution; Spatializing and Quantifying; The Spatial-Quantitative Revolution Proper
- Models; Critique and Reformulation; Concluding Comments; 3. Social Theory and Human Geography: Material Matters; Context; A Marxist Human Geography; The Critical Mainstream; Feminist Geography; The Advent of Society and Space.
- 4. Social Theory and Human Geography: Worlds of MeaningHumanistic Geography; The Posts
- A Balance Sheet; 5. New Understandings of Space; Context; Understanding Relational Space; Case Studies; Concluding Comments; 6. Methods in Question; Quantitative-Qualitative; Analytic-Interpretive; Categorial-Dialectical; Pluralizing-Totalizing; Concluding Comments; 7. Human Geography and How and Why Things Happen; The Structure-Agency Debate; Structure-Agency: Some Critical Notes; Back to How and Why Things Happenin Human Geography; 8. Making Space for Human Geography in the Social Sciences.
- Human Geography's ContributionCase Studies; Concluding Comments; 9. Making Sense of Human Geography, Past and Present; Context; Social Structures of Geographic Thought; Power Everywhere; Geohistories of Geographic Thought; The Question of Novelty; Interpretations; The Question of Progress; Postscript; References; Index; About the Author.