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Title Reading human geography : the poetics and politics of inquiry / edited by Trevor Barnes and Derek Gregory
Published London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : Wiley, 1997

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Description vi, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The spaces of knowledge: contributions towards a historical geography of science / David N. Livingstone -- 2. On theborders of social theory: learning from other regions / David Slater -- 3. Getting personal: reflexivity, positionality, and feminist research / Kim V. L. England -- 4. The practice of human geography: theory and empirical specificity in the transition from Fordism to flexible accumulation / David Harvey & Allen J. Scott -- 5. Fragmentation, coherence and limits to theory in human geography / David Ley -- 6. Realism and geography / Andrew Sayer -- 7. Undestanding diversity: the problem of/for "theory" / Linda McDowell -- 8. Lines of power / Gunnar Olsson -- 9. Deconstracting the map / J. Brian Harley -- 10. Spatial metaphors and speaking positions -- 11. The matter of nature / Margaret FitzSimmons -- 12. (Re)mapping mother earth: a geographical perspective on environmental feminisms / Cathy Nesmith & Sarah A. Radcliffe -- 13. Ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and humanb societies / David Demeritt
14. The socio-spatial dialectic / Edward Soja -- 15. Between space and time: reflections on the geographical imagination / David Harvey -- 16. Bodies in space: Foucault's account of disciplinary power / Felix Driver -- 17. The betweenness of place / J. Nicholas Entriken -- 18. A global sense of place / Doreen Massey -- 19. Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea / Denis Cosgrove -- 20. Looking at landscape: the uneasy pleasures of power / Gillian Rose -- 21. Arguments for humanistic geography / Stephen Daniels -- 22. On the determination of social action in space and time / Nigel Thrift -- 23. Human agency and human geography revisited: a critique of "new models" of the self / Stephen Pile -- 24. Unnatural discourse: "race" and gender in geography / Audrey Kobayashi and Linda Peake -- 25. Ironies of distance: an ongoing critiwue of the geographies of AIDS / Michael Brown -- 26. Mapping meaning, denoting difference, imagining identity: dialetctical images and postmodern geographies / Miachael Watts
Notes Co-published in the US, Central and South America by Wiley
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Subject Discourse analysis.
Human geography.
Author Barnes, Trevor J.
Gregory, Derek, 1951-
LC no. 95223591
ISBN 0340632089 (pb)
0340632097 (hb)
0470235373 (Wiley)
0470235381 (Wiley)