The last decade has been a decade of tremendous change across the
broad of the human and social sciences. Ancient certainties,
trusted ideologies and tested methods all came under immense
pressure once so-called 'postmodern' ideas and concepts gained
wider currency particularly among those with an interest in social
theory. No longer content with framing social reality according to
the logic of one core metaphor, the human and social sciences both
rediscovered the local particularity of truth where hitherto a
general explanation was deemed sufficient. In short: the
revitalizing and formative power of 'space' was acknowledged once
again.
More than ten years into the debate, the present collection of
original essays seeks to assess both the impact and current state
of the debate around postmodernism and the spatial social sciences.
It aims not at solving contradictions and differences within the
debate since such a claim would be both fruitless and immature;
rather, it seeks to demonstrate the diversity of interpretations
that has come about by the mutual discovery of postmodern
discourses and human geography since the mid 1980s. Celebrations of
postmodernity, the insistence of a continuation of modernity,
interpretations of globally-emerging postmodern spaces, even the
call for an analysis of hypermodernity thus coexist in the
collection at hand. In-between the essays, a new discursive agenda
for the spatial human sciences emerges: not to pave the way for a
new orthodoxy but simply to allow for the recognition of new ideas
taking root in today's academic environment.
This book is at once critical, provocative and accessible. It
will be widely welcomed by advanced students ofspatial and social
theory in geography and related disciplines.
General
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
May 1997 |
| First published: |
July 1997 |
| Authors: |
Benko
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| Dimensions: |
249 x 175 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
416 |
| Edition: |
1997. Corr. 3rd |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-631-19466-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
General
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| LSN: |
0-631-19466-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780631194668 |
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