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"Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics
of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden
geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on
Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual
invocation has long required." -John Agnew, Professor of Geography,
UCLA "Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is
uncomfortable but utterly compelling reading. An essential guide to
a world splintered and wounded by fear and aggression-this is
geography at its most politically engaged, historically sensitive,
and intellectually brave." -Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
"This is what a 'public geography' should be all about: acute
analysis of momentous issues of our time in an accessible language.
Gregory and Pred have assembled a peerless group of critical
geographers whose essays alter conventional understandings of
terror, violence, and fear. No mere gazetteer, Violent Geographies
shows how place, space and landscape are central components of the
real and imagined practices that constitute organised violence past
and present. If you thought terror, violence, and fear were the
professional preserve of security analysts and foreign affairs
experts this book will force you to think again." -Noel Castree,
School of Environment and Development, Manchester University "A
studied, passionate and moving examination of the way in which the
violent logics of the 'War on Terror' have so quickly shuttered and
reorganized the spaces of this planet on its different scales. From
the book emerges a critical new cartography that clearly charts an
archipelago of a large multiplicity of 'wild' and 'tamed' places as
well as 'black holes' within and between which we all struggle to
live." -Eyal Weizman, Director, Goldsmiths College Centre for
Research Architecture
Edward Said's oft cited claim that Orientalists past and present
have spun imaginary geographies where they sought ground truth, has
launched a plethora of studies of fictive geographies.
Representations often reveal more about the culture of the writer
than that of the people and places written about. Yet the study of
imaginary geographies has raised many questions about Western
writers' abilities to provide representations of foreign places;
there is now much interest in Western mis-representations of places
(imaginary geographies). This text explores the interplay between a
system of "othering" which travellers bring to a place, and the
"real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing
the tensions between the imaginary and real, James Duncan and Derek
Gregory and a team of international contributors focus primarily
upon travellers from the 18th and 19th centuries to pin down the
imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors
focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and
Europe - with the European examples being drawn from Britain,
France and Greece. This book presents a unique contribution from
geographers - with their sensit
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.
Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a
long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated
in the last two decades through critical engagement with Foucault
and Gramsci. This volume focuses on relations between knowledge and
power. It shows why space is fundamental in any exercise of power
and explains which roles various types of knowledge play in the
acquisition, support, and legitimization of power. Topics include
the control and manipulation of knowledge through centers of power
in historical contexts, the geopolitics of knowledge about world
politics, media control in twentieth century, cartography in modern
war, the power of words, the changing face of Islamic authority,
and the role of Millennialism in the United States. This book
offers insights from disciplines such as geography, anthropology,
scientific theology, Assyriology, and communication science.
"Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics
of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden
geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on
Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual
invocation has long required." -John Agnew, Professor of Geography,
UCLA "Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is
uncomfortable but utterly compelling reading. An essential guide to
a world splintered and wounded by fear and aggression-this is
geography at its most politically engaged, historically sensitive,
and intellectually brave." -Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
"This is what a 'public geography' should be all about: acute
analysis of momentous issues of our time in an accessible language.
Gregory and Pred have assembled a peerless group of critical
geographers whose essays alter conventional understandings of
terror, violence, and fear. No mere gazetteer, Violent Geographies
shows how place, space and landscape are central components of the
real and imagined practices that constitute organised violence past
and present. If you thought terror, violence, and fear were the
professional preserve of security analysts and foreign affairs
experts this book will force you to think again." -Noel Castree,
School of Environment and Development, Manchester University "A
studied, passionate and moving examination of the way in which the
violent logics of the 'War on Terror' have so quickly shuttered and
reorganized the spaces of this planet on its different scales. From
the book emerges a critical new cartography that clearly charts an
archipelago of a large multiplicity of 'wild' and 'tamed' places as
well as 'black holes' within and between which we all struggle to
live." -Eyal Weizman, Director, Goldsmiths College Centre for
Research Architecture
The debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography
has often focused upon the progress to be made in the discipline
through an adaptation to new problems, new methodologies, new
techniques and new sources. Originally published in 1984, this
volume of interpretative essays extends that debate by exploring in
tentative fashion some basic methodological and substantive issues
from essentially interdisciplinary standpoints. In any exploration,
risks have to be accepted as an integral part of this enterprise.
All of the contributors to this book take pleasure in one another's
polemical company, and each essay explores a wide field while being
soundly based in personal research. The hope is that some of this
pleasure will be shared by those who critically read these essays.
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Making Cairo Medieval (Hardcover, New)
Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A Bierman, Nasser Rabbat; Contributions by Heba Farouk Ahmed, Khaled Fahmy, …
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R2,902
Discovery Miles 29 020
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During the nineteenth century, Cairo witnessed one of its most
dramatic periods of transformation. Well on its way to becoming a
modern and cosmopolitan city, by the end of the century, a
'medieval' Cairo had somehow come into being. While many Europeans
in the nineteenth century viewed Cairo as a fundamentally dual
city--physically and psychically split between East/West and
modern/medieval--the contributors to the provocative collection
demonstrate that, in fact, this process of inscription was the
result of restoration practices, museology, and tourism initiated
by colonial occupiers. The first edited volume to address
nineteenth-century Cairo both in terms of its history and the
perception of its achievements, this book will be an essential text
for courses in architectural and art history dealing with the
Islamic world.
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Human Geography (Hardcover)
Derek Gregory, Noel Castree
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R24,221
R19,532
Discovery Miles 195 320
Save R4,689 (19%)
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Human geography is a diverse and vibrant subject. It aims to
understand human occupancy of the earth's surface: the places
created; boundaries constructed; environments altered; and
connections made by people as they seek to meet their various needs
and wants. Because of its high intellectual ambition, human
geography is a broad and plural subject in which a wide range of
research is undertaken. Making sense of the field can be
challenging, even for seasoned practitioners. This four-part, five
volume collection provides a map for anyone seeking to reconnoitre
the landscape of human geography today. Focusing mostly on
Anglophone contributions, it begins with a discussion of the
histories and philosophies of geographical knowledge and continues
through to the central concerns of the discipline: space (in
relation to productions, practices and performances); and nature
(in relation to distinctions between 'culture' and 'nature'). Part
One: Histories, Philosophies and Politics Part Two: Theories,
Methods and Practices Part Three: Space, Place and Landscape Part
Four: Nature, Environment and the Non-Human
"Es ist ein Glucksfall, dass Derek Gregorys brillante und
vielfaltige Ideen und Anregungen in diesem sorgfaltig edierten Band
genau nachvollzogen werden konnen." Geographische Rundschau.
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