The Spaces of Postmodernity

This Reader recounts the story of the emergence and impact of postmodern thought in human geography. The editors have brought together in a single volume the pivotal writings of the period since 1965. Through these, and their connecting narratives, the editors engage with what has been the most invigorating intellectual roller-coaster ride in geography's recent history. Part one of the volume traces the shift in human geography from a plethora of pre-postmodern paradigms to the emergence of a postmodern consciousness. Part two outlines an agenda for a postmodern human geographical theory and practice that sympathetically intersects with feminism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, and environmentalism. This critical account of the spaces of postmodernity will be required reading for anyone interested in the production of place, and the state of contemporary social theory.

ISBN 0631217827   Pages 512 ISBN13 9780631217824 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 820 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 243 Publication date 20 Dec 2001   Width (mm) 172 Library of Congress GF49.S72 2   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY 304.2   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction: How to Map a Radical Break		1
		Fit The First: Excavating The Postmodern		13
		1965-83: Pre-Postmodern Geographies		15
1		Locational Analysis in Human Geography by Peter Haggett		22
2		Explanation in Human Geography by David Harvey		37
3		Behavioral Models in Geography by Kevin R. Cox and Reginald G. Golledge		46
4		The Development of Radical Geography in the United States by Richard Peet		52
5		Social Justice and the City by David Harvey		59
6		Social Geography and Social Action by David Ley		68
7		Alternatives to a Positive Economic Geography by Leslie J. King		77
8		Eggs in Bird by Gunnar Olsson		85
9		Ideology, Science and Human Geography by Derek Gregory		95
10		On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time by Nigel J. Thrift		106
11		Towards an Understanding of the Gender Division of Urban Space by Linda McDowell		120
		1984-9: Postmodern Geographies: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison		127
12		The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre		131
13		Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson		142
14		Taking Los Angeles Apart: Some Fragments of a Critical Human Geography by Edward W. Soja		150
15		Postmodernism and Planning by Michael J. Dear		162
16		The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey		169
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"A postmodern perspective on the development of the geographical imagination over the last thirty years. Dear and Flusty provide a timely and provocative account of the significance of space in contemporary social theory." -- Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London

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