Remaking Human Geography
Published on 22. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-04-445325-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays is concerned with developing a dialogue between humanism and historical materialism in human geography. It demonstrates a greater sensitivity towards the meaning of "making history" and the interpenetration of human agency and social structure . In many ways the essays in this collection point to a movement beyond both relativism and absolutism and the authors suggest that humanism can no longer be portrayed as a parochialism in which the day-to-day lives of particular people in specific places is the single focus of study. Traditions have moved beyond those simple reductions towards a recognition of the complexity of human geographies, towards the realization that, as Mann puts it, "societies are much messier than our theories of them".
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445325-3 (9780044453253)
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Content
Introduction: Humanism and historical materialism in contemporary social geography, Suzanne Mackenzie and Audrey Kobayashi. Part 1 Issues: the social and economic imperatives of restructuring - a geographic perspective, John Bradbury; restructuring the relations of work and life - women as environmental actors, feminism as geographic analysis, Suzanne Mackenzie; theory, hypothesis, explanation and action - the example of urban planning, Jeanne M. Wolfe; synthesis in human geography - a demonstration of historical materialism, Richard Harris. Part 2 Methods: quantitative techniques and humanistic historical materialist perspectives, Geraldine Pratt; theory and measurement in historical materialism, Simon Foot et al; agency in economic geography and the theories of economic value, Trevor Barnes; responsive methods, geographical imagination and the study of landscape, Edward Relph; a critique of dialectical landscape, Audrey Kobayashi. Part 3 Directions: historical considerations on humanism, historical materialism and geography, Denis Cosgrove; on the dialogue between humanism and historical materialism in geography, Andrew Sayer; fragmentation, coherence and limits to theory in human geography, David Ley.