| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; 1. Human Geography: The First Half Century; People and Nature Dominant; Theory and Method; Concluding Comments; 2. Long Live the Revolution!; Situating the Spatial-Quantitative Revolution; Spatializing and Quantifying; The Spatial-Quantitative Revolution Proper -- Models; Critique and Reformulation; Concluding Comments; 3. Social Theory and Human Geography: Material Matters; Context; A Marxist Human Geography; The Critical Mainstream; Feminist Geography; The Advent of Society and Space |
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4. Social Theory and Human Geography: Worlds of MeaningHumanistic Geography; The Posts -- A Balance Sheet; 5. New Understandings of Space; Context; Understanding Relational Space; Case Studies; Concluding Comments; 6. Methods in Question; Quantitative-Qualitative; Analytic-Interpretive; Categorial-Dialectical; Pluralizing-Totalizing; Concluding Comments; 7. Human Geography and How and Why Things Happen; The Structure-Agency Debate; Structure-Agency: Some Critical Notes; Back to How and Why Things Happenin Human Geography; 8. Making Space for Human Geography in the Social Sciences |
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Human Geography's ContributionCase Studies; Concluding Comments; 9. Making Sense of Human Geography, Past and Present; Context; Social Structures of Geographic Thought; Power Everywhere; Geohistories of Geographic Thought; The Question of Novelty; Interpretations; The Question of Progress; Postscript; References; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
This book cogently examines how human geography has developed from a field with limited self-awareness regarding method and theory to the vibrant study of society and space that it is today. Kevin R. Cox provides an interpretive, critical perspective on Anglo-American geographic thought in the 20th and 21st centuries. He probes the impact of the spatial-quantitative revolution and geography's engagement with other social sciences, particularly in social theory. Key concepts and theories in the field are explained and illustrated with instructive research examples. Cox explores both how |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human geography -- Social aspects
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Human geography -- Cross-cultural studies
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Spatial behavior.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Human geography
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Spatial behavior
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781462512904 |
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1462512909 |
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1306192013 |
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9781306192019 |
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