Geography Indivisible
How and Why Configuration Matters
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2022
92 pages
978-1-000-84814-4 (ISBN)
Description
In a context of disciplinary division between human and physical geography, the book seeks to reassert the unity of the field through an emphasis on a shared focus on the geographic configuration of things and how and why configuration is important.
It first examines previous approaches to reestablishing unity, and why they have failed, before moving on to an explanation of fundamental differences in what is being studied and how. The role of configuration looms large in both. This is in the sense of contingency and the idea of emergence, suggesting that reconstruction of unity can proceed through an exchange of models of understanding.
This book will appeal to those teaching courses or seminars in geographic thought or in the history of geographic thought.
It first examines previous approaches to reestablishing unity, and why they have failed, before moving on to an explanation of fundamental differences in what is being studied and how. The role of configuration looms large in both. This is in the sense of contingency and the idea of emergence, suggesting that reconstruction of unity can proceed through an exchange of models of understanding.
This book will appeal to those teaching courses or seminars in geographic thought or in the history of geographic thought.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
5 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-84814-4 (9781000848144)
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Person
Kevin R. Cox is Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Geography at Ohio State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Making Human Geography, The Politics of Urban and Regional Development, and the American Exception. He frequently blogs on his website Unfashionable Geographies.
Content
Preface
Chapter 1- Unity in Diversity
Chapter 2 - Divergences
Chapter 3 - How Configuration Matters
References
Chapter 1- Unity in Diversity
Chapter 2 - Divergences
Chapter 3 - How Configuration Matters
References
