| Description |
xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface ix -- Acknowledgements xv -- 1 WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY? 1 -- Exploration and the cosmographic tradition 2 -- A science of synthesis 2 -- The organizational plan of geography 10 -- A new synthesis? 11 -- 2 THE FOUNDATION OF GEOGRAPHY 17 -- Geography in the ancient world 17 -- Middle Ages and the Renaissance 19 -- Varenius 22 -- The philosopher, Immanuel Kant 23 -- The 'classical' period 25 -- From cosmography to an institutionalized discipline 28 -- The social anarchists 34 -- Darwinism 37 -- Geomorphology and physiography provide academic respect 40 -- Environmental determinism and possibilism 42 -- The French school of regional geography 45 -- Landscapes and regions 48 -- Regional studies in Britain 53 -- The development of applied geography 54 -- 3 PARADIGMS AND REVOLUTIONS 57 -- Kuhn's paradigms 58 -- Critics of Kuhn 61 -- Induction, deduction and abduction 62 -- Changing paradigms in geography? 69 -- An idiographic or nomothetic science? 72 -- Absolute and relative space 73 -- A discipline ripe for change 76 -- The growth of spatial science 77 -- -- -- -- What kind of revolution? 82 -- Critics of the spatial science school 86 -- The achievements of spatial science 87 -- A 'critical' revolution? 91 -- A new humanistic geography 94 -- Spatial science criticized from within 96 -- Revolution or evolution? 97 -- 4 POSITIVISM AND ITS CRITICS 99 -- Positivism and critical theory 99 -- The development of positivism 100 -- Principles in positivism 102 -- Criticisms of positivism 103 -- Dialectics, Hegel and Marx 105 -- Subjectivity and objectivity 106 -- Practical consequences for research 110 -- Geography and empiricism 113 -- The positivism of spatial science 115 -- Humanistic approaches 117 -- Structuralism 122 -- Structuration theory 124 -- Realism 127 -- A simplified model of relations between the empirical, agents and 132 -- structures -- Postmodernism and poststructuralism 133 -- To unite a vernacular and an academic definition of geography 139 5 -- PROCESSES IN SPACE AND PLACE 145 -- Geography at the turn of the millennium: action and processes in 145 -- space -- Relational space 147 -- Region and place 153 -- A sense of place 158 -- Territoriality and 'otherness' 167 -- Geographies of exclusion 171 -- Geographical futures 175 -- Geography as human ecology 177 -- Geographical information systems (GIS).and ways of representing 180 -- the world -- From orthodoxy to pluralism 185 -- Explanation and description 187 -- Are dichotomies overemphasized? 188 -- 'Let one hundred flowers bloom' 189 -- Specialization and pluralism 191 -- References and Bibliography 197 -- Author and Personality Index 209 -- Glossary and Subject Index 216 |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
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Translation of: Geografiens innhold og metoder |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-208) and indexes |
| Subject |
Geography -- Methodology.
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Geography -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
99214121 |
| ISBN |
0761961798 |
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0761961801 (paperback) |
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