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Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography - Performative Aspects of Geography (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography - Performative Aspects of Geography (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Geography Speaks is an investigation of how geography is informed
by speech act theory and performativity. Starting with a critical
analysis of how J.L. Austin's speech act theory probed the
permeability between fact and fiction, it then assesses
oppositional interpretations by John Searle and Jacques Derrida,
and in doing so, it explores the fictional aspects within
scientific knowledge. The book then focuses on five key aspects of
the geographical discipline and analyses them using the theories of
speech acts and performance: the performative aspects of the
creation of place; speech act performances and geopolitics; acts of
cartographical construction as variations of speech act
performance; the performative aspects of the creation of public and
private space, and, finally; the history of the discipline as a
sequence of performative acts that attempt to establish geography
as being constitutive of this or that type of disciplinary method
or scientific viewpoint. Geography Speaks is an interdisciplinary
text with a distinct and clear focus on cultural geography while
also synthesizing into geography ideas germane to historiography,
the philosophy of language, the history of science, and comparative
literature.
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