Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction
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- Höfundur: Tim Cresswell
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 12/2012
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- ISBN 13: 9781118256442
- Print ISBN: 9781405169394
- ISBN 10: 1118256441
Efnisyfirlit
- Front Matter
- Critical Introductions to Geography
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Why Theory Matters
- What is theory?
- Theory, Writing, and Difficulty
- Theory and the History of Geography
- References
- Why Theory Matters
- Chapter 2 Early Geographies
- Classical Geographical Theory
- Herodotus and Eratosthenes
- Figure 2.1 The world according to Eratosthenes. From Cram’s Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical (1895).
- Kenon, chora, and topos
- The first geographers?
- Figure 2.2 Ptolomy’s map of the world with grid. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptolemy _Cosmographia_1467_-_world_map.jpg (accessed May 31, 2012). Original located at the National library of Poland.
- Herodotus and Eratosthenes
- Classical Geographical Theory
- Medieval Geographies
- Figure 2.3 The Mappa Mundi from around ad 1300 in Hereford Cathedral. The Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust and the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral.
- Figure 2.4 Raphael, The School at Athens 1509/10.
- Toward Modern Geography
- Figure 2.5 Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer 1668/9.
- Conclusion
- References
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and Carl Ritter (1779–1859)
- Darwin, Lamarck, and Geography
- Geopolitics
- Figure 3.1 Mackinder’s geopolitical map of the world in 1904. From Halford J. Mackinder, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Geographical Journal 23/4: April 1904, 435.
- Geomorphology
- Figure 3.2 W. M. Davis’s Cycle of Erosion. From Geographical Essays (1909).
- Geopolitics
- Approaching the Region
- Vidal de la Blache and French regional geography
- Hartshorne and the chorological point of view
- Soviet regional geography
- Bioregionalism
- Critiquing the Region
- New Regional Geographies
- Critical Regionalism
- Conclusion
- References
- Positivism
- The General and the Specific
- Central Place Theory
- Figure 5.1 Johan Heinrich von Thünen’s Isolated State.
- Figure 5.2 Walter Christaller’s “Central Place in the Eastern Regions map for the SS Reorganization of Poland.” From Christaller, Dr. Walter. 1941. Die Zentralen Orte in den Ostgebieten und ihre Kultur- und Marktbereiche. Struktur und Gestaltung der Zentralen Orte des Deutschen Ostens, Teil 1. Leipzig: K. F. Koehler Verlag.
- Spatial Science and Movement
- Quantification and Physical Geography
- Conclusions: Spatial Science in the Twenty-First Century
- References
- Critiquing (In)human Geography
- What is Humanistic Geography?
- Phenomenology and Existentialism
- Space and Place
- Humanistic Geography in Action
- Humanistic geographers and literature
- Mobility in the lifeworld
- Lifeworlds of the elderly
- Conclusion: Humanism is Dead – Long Live Humanism
- References
- The Birth of Modern Marxist Geography
- Historical Materialism: An Introduction
- The Production of Space and Uneven Development
- The Production of Nature
- Figure 7.1 Yellowstone (Old Faithful geyser) and New York City (Times Square at Night) – which is more natural? Photo of Yellowstone’s Old Faithful geyser by Colin Faulkingham. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Faithful_Geyser _Yellowstone_National_Park.jpg (accessed May 29, 2012). Photo of Times Square at Night by Matt H. Wade, CC-BY-SA-3.0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Times_ Square_1.JPG (accessed May 29, 2012).
- Figure 7.2 Abandoned parking lot in Love Canal. Photo by Bufferlutheran. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abandoned_ parking_lot_in_Love_Canal.jpg (accessed June 28, 2012).
- Radical Cultural Geography
- The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)?
- Conclusions
- References
- Women and Geography
- What is Feminist Geography?
- Gender and Geography
- Masculinism in Geography
- A Feminist Epistemology
- Feminist Geographies
- Geographies of fear
- Feminist geographies of nature
- Figure 8.1 Is the earth your mother? Astronaut photograph AS17-148-22727, courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov).
- Feminist geographies of mobility
- Feminist geographies of development
- Conclusions: Feminist Geography and Difference
- References
- Two Buildings
- Figure 9.1 The demolition of Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, 1972 – the end of modernism? US Department of Housing and Urban Development. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pruittigoe_collapse-series.jpg (accessed May 29, 2012).
- Figure 9.2 The Westin Bonaventura Hotel, Los Angeles. Photo by Geographer, CC BY-SA 3.0. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel.jpg (accessed May 29, 2012).
- Key Points in Postmodern Theory
- Against Metanarratives
- Against “foundations” and “essences”
- Problems with representation
- Once in Los Angeles
- A Postmodern Geography?
- New Geographies of Difference
- Geography and the Crisis of Representation
- Conclusions: Feminism and Postmodernism
- References
- Structure and Agency in Geographic Thought
- Varieties of Structuralism
- Time-geography
- Toward structuration theory
- Poststructuralism and Geography
- Foucault’s Geographies
- Conclusions
- References
- Figure 11.1 The London Underground – a topological map. Harry Becks’s 1933 London Underground map © TfL, London Transport Museum Collection.
- A Relational Conception of Place
- The End of Scale?
- Nonrepresentational Theory
- Conclusions
- References
- Reengaging Human and Physical Geography
- Animal Geographies
- Figure 12.1 Common Bushtail Possum, Tasmania, Australia. Photo by J. J. Harrison, CC-BY-SA-2.5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trichosurus_vulpecula_1.jpg (accessed May 29, 2012).
- Actor-Network Theory
- Hybrid Geographies
- Figure 12.2 Soybeans. Photo by Annie Mole, CC-BY-2.0. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edamame_Annie_Mole.jpg (accessed May 30, 2012).
- Conclusions
- References
- An Autobiography in Theory
- Exclusions
- Postcolonialism and Geography
- Black Geographies?
- Conclusion
- References
- Glossary
- Index
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