Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction

413 Pages·2012·3.93 MB·English

by  Cresswell

Table of Contents
Cover
Critical Introductions to Geography
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Why Theory Matters
Theory, Writing, and Difficulty
Theory and the History of Geography
Chapter 2 Early Geographies
Classical Geographical Theory
Medieval Geographies
Toward Modern Geography
Conclusion
Chapter 3 The Emergence of Modern Geography
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and Carl Ritter (1779–
1859)
Darwin, Lamarck, and Geography
Environmental Determinism
Anarchist Alternatives
Conclusions
Chapter 4 Thinking About Regions
Approaching the Region
Critiquing the Region
New Regional Geographies
Critical Regionalism
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Spatial Science and the Quantitative
Revolution
Positivism
The General and the Specific
Central Place Theory
Spatial Science and Movement
Quantification and Physical Geography
Conclusions: Spatial Science in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6 Humanistic Geographies
Critiquing (In)human Geography
What is Humanistic Geography?
Phenomenology and Existentialism
Space and Place
Humanistic Geography in Action
Conclusion: Humanism is Dead – Long Live Humanism
Chapter 7 Marxist Geographies
The Birth of Modern Marxist Geography
Historical Materialism: An Introduction
The Production of Space and Uneven Development
The Production of Nature
Radical Cultural Geography
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)?
Conclusions
Chapter 8 Feminist Geographies
Women and Geography
What is Feminist Geography?
Gender and Geography
Masculinism in Geography
A Feminist Epistemology
Feminist Geographies
Conclusions: Feminist Geography and Difference
Chapter 9 Postmodernism and Beyond
Two Buildings
Key Points in Postmodern Theory
Once in Los Angeles
A Postmodern Geography?
New Geographies of Difference
Geography and the Crisis of Representation
Conclusions: Feminism and Postmodernism
Chapter 10 Toward Poststructuralist Geographies
Structure and Agency in Geographic Thought
Poststructuralism and Geography
Foucault’s Geographies
Conclusions
Chapter 11 Relational Geographies
A Relational Conception of Place
The End of Scale?
Nonrepresentational Theory
Conclusions
Chapter 12 More-than-Human Geographies
Reengaging Human and Physical Geography
Animal Geographies
Actor-Network Theory
Hybrid Geographies
Conclusions
Chapter 13 Geography’s Exclusions
An Autobiography in Theory
Exclusions
Postcolonialism and Geography
Black Geographies?
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
Critical Introductions to Geography Critical
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Geographic thought: a critical introduction / Tim Cresswell.
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