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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
276
Utgivningsdatum
1989-02-01
Förlag
Verso Books
Illustrationer
9ill.
Dimensioner
235 x 155 x 20 mm
Vikt
500 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780860919360

Postmodern Geographies

Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory

av Edward W Soja
Häftad,  Engelska, 1989-02-01

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Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an ""unnecessary complication."" Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of ""flexible accumulation."" The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.
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""One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written on the thorny issue of how and why societies use space for social purposes in the way they do."" - David Harvey, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford

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Edward W. Soja teaches Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on African development, and, more recently, on the economic and spatial restructuring of the Los Angeles region.

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