Human Geography Today,9780745621890

Human Geography Today

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780745621890
ISBN10: 0745621899
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-15
Publisher(s): Polity
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Summary

Human Geography Today explores the controversial and themes the current geography.This book brings together an international team of contributors to discuss pertinent topics in the field and explore future directions for their respective parts of the discipline. Topics covered include the increasingly challenged dichotomy between the social and the natural, the meaning and significance of the geographical imagination, and the increasing prominence of debates over difference and identity. The book also covers the interrelationship to spatiality and the imperative of recognizing the mutual constitution of spatiality and power. It is a contemporary and provoking collection that encourages readers to think about how to most productively reimagine space and place in these changing times.

Author Biography

Professor Doreen Massey, Department of Social Sciences, The Open University


Senior Lecturer John Allen, Department of Social Sciences, The Open University


Senior Lecturer Phil Sarre, Department of Social Sciences, The Open University

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Preface x
Acknowledgements xii
Part I The `Nature' of Human Geography 1(40)
Issues and Debates
3(19)
Doreen Massey
Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the `Human' in Human Geography
22(19)
Sarah Whatmore
Part II Imaginative Geographies 41(68)
Introduction
43(4)
Imagined Geographies: Geographical Knowledges of Self and Other in Everyday Life
47(15)
Gill Valentine
Situating Geopolitical Representations: Inside/Outside and the Power of Imperial Interventions
62(23)
David Slater
Collective Wish Images: Geographical Imaginaries and the Crisis of National Development
85(24)
Michael John Watts
Part III Geography and Difference 109(60)
Introduction
111(4)
Creating Geographies of Difference
115(14)
David Sibley
The Cultural Politics of Difference
129(22)
Susan J. Smith
Geographies of Identity and Difference: Marking Boundaries
151(18)
Geraldine Pratt
Part IV Spatialities of Power 169(74)
Introduction
171(2)
The New Geopolitics of Power
173(21)
John Agnew
Spatial Assemblages of Power: From Domination to Empowerment
194(25)
John Allen
Popular and State Discourses of Power
219(24)
Sarah Radcliffe
Part V Rethinking Space and Place 243(80)
Introduction
245(2)
Performing Space
247(13)
Gillian Rose
Thirdspace: Expanding the Scope of the Geographical Imagination
260(19)
Edward W. Soja
Spaces of Politics
279(16)
Doreen Massey
Steps to an Ecology of Place
295(28)
Nigel Thrift
Afterword: Open Geographies 323(6)
John Allen
Index 329

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