Poststructuralist Geographies
The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science
Published on 24. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7486-1243-7 (ISBN)
Description
Poststructuralist Geographies is the first attempt to draw out and develop the inherent quality that is at the heart of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives. With expertise in both critical human geography and post-war continental philosophy, the author is able to bring them together in order to fashion a remarkable and thought-provoking introduction to the fundamental difference that space, place, context and milieu make to how we understand and engage with the world and others around us. Authors such as Baudrillard, Deleuze, Derrida, Irigaray, and Lyotard are given a new twist, and the radical consequences are developed across a range of accessible examples, from film to quantum mechanics.
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There is a vast amount of thought-provoking analysis in this book... I would recommend it to anyone interested in the central philosophical questions faced by human geographeers and other social scientists. The analysis is extremely erudite, at times very dense. Few people are likely to be ambivalent about Poststructuralist Geographies. Marcus Doel has written a book that not only sets out to provoke thought but also seems to calculate and anticipate a certain kind of visceral response. There is a vast amount of thought-provoking analysis in this book... I would recommend it to anyone interested in the central philosophical questions faced by human geographeers and other social scientists. The analysis is extremely erudite, at times very dense. Few people are likely to be ambivalent about Poststructuralist Geographies. Marcus Doel has written a book that not only sets out to provoke thought but also seems to calculate and anticipate a certain kind of visceral response.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
651 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-1243-7 (9780748612437)
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Person
Marcus Doel is Research Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University. He is also Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, Killing Time (Sage, 2017), Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science (EUP, 1999) and Writing the Rural: Five Cultural Geographies (Paul Chapman, 1994). He is co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge, 2009), Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film (Lanham, 2009), The Consumption Reader (Routledge, 2003), Dynamic Asia: Business, Trade, and Economic Development in Pacific Asia (Avebury, 1998) and Fragmented Asia: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in Pacific Asia (Avebury, 1996).