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Originally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book,
Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization
and spatial organization in underdeveloped countries are
inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in
theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western
societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which
is so badly needed. He describes the urban economy in these
countries in terms of two circuits of activity - an upper circuit
consisting of those enterprises and structures which are based on
modern technology and are oriented towards the advanced capitalist
world, and a lower circuit comprised of more traditional processes
and forms of exchange. The dialectical interaction of these two
circuits is seen to generate the patterns of growth, forms of State
intervention and, above all, the spatial organization
characteristic of Third World economies. This was a revision and
translation of L'Espace Partage (1975).
Originally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book,
Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization
and spatial organization in underdeveloped countries are
inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in
theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western
societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which
is so badly needed. He describes the urban economy in these
countries in terms of two circuits of activity - an upper circuit
consisting of those enterprises and structures which are based on
modern technology and are oriented towards the advanced capitalist
world, and a lower circuit comprised of more traditional processes
and forms of exchange. The dialectical interaction of these two
circuits is seen to generate the patterns of growth, forms of State
intervention and, above all, the spatial organization
characteristic of Third World economies. This was a revision and
translation of L'Espace Partage (1975).
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The Nature of Space (Paperback)
Milton Santos; Translated by Brenda Baletti; Introduction by Susanna Hecht
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R726
Discovery Miles 7 260
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton
Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global
orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a
theory of human space based on relationships between time and
ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the
inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend
fragmented realities and partial truths without trying to theorize
their way around them. Based on these premises, Santos examines the
role of space, which he defines as indissoluble systems of objects
and systems of actions in social processes, while providing a
geographic contribution to the production of a critical social
theory.
This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that
derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which
this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the
Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.
It offers a critical and uniquely first-hand perspective that is
lacking not only from the apologists of Western hegemony, but from
most scholars writing against this hegemony from within the
globalizing world. Renowned throughout Latin America and parts of
Europe, the author, Brazilian geographer Milton Santos, has long
been for the most part inaccessible to the English-speaking world.
Only one of his books, The Shared Space: The Two Circuits of the
Urban Economy in Underdeveloped Countries, published in 1975, has
been translated into English; nevertheless, the works of Santos's
most important phase, from the 1980s until his death in 2001, have
remained unavailable to English readers. With the translation of
Toward an Other Globalization, one of the last works published in
Santos's lifetime, this situation has finally been rectified. In
this book, Santos argues that we must consider globalization in
three different senses: globalization as a fable (the world as
globalizing agents make us believe), as perversity (the world as it
is presently, in the throes of globalization), and as possibility
(the world as it could be). What emerges from the analysis of these
three senses is an alternative theory of globalization rooted in
the perspective of the so-called Global South. Santos concludes his
text with a message that is optimistic, but in no way nai ve. What
he offers instead is a revolutionary optimism and, indeed, an other
globalization.
This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that
derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which
this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the
Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.
It offers a critical and uniquely first-hand perspective that is
lacking not only from the apologists of Western hegemony, but from
most scholars writing against this hegemony from within the
globalizing world. Renowned throughout Latin America and parts of
Europe, the author, Brazilian geographer Milton Santos, has long
been for the most part inaccessible to the English-speaking world.
Only one of his books, The Shared Space: The Two Circuits of the
Urban Economy in Underdeveloped Countries, published in 1975, has
been translated into English; nevertheless, the works of Santos's
most important phase, from the 1980s until his death in 2001, have
remained unavailable to English readers. With the translation of
Toward an Other Globalization, one of the last works published in
Santos's lifetime, this situation has finally been rectified. In
this book, Santos argues that we must consider globalization in
three different senses: globalization as a fable (the world as
globalizing agents make us believe), as perversity (the world as it
is presently, in the throes of globalization), and as possibility
(the world as it could be). What emerges from the analysis of these
three senses is an alternative theory of globalization rooted in
the perspective of the so-called Global South. Santos concludes his
text with a message that is optimistic, but in no way nai ve. What
he offers instead is a revolutionary optimism and, indeed, an other
globalization.
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The Nature of Space (Hardcover)
Milton Santos; Translated by Brenda Baletti; Introduction by Susanna Hecht
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R2,551
Discovery Miles 25 510
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton
Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global
orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a
theory of human space based on relationships between time and
ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the
inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend
fragmented realities and partial truths without trying to theorize
their way around them. Based on these premises, Santos examines the
role of space, which he defines as indissoluble systems of objects
and systems of actions in social processes, while providing a
geographic contribution to the production of a critical social
theory.
For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is
a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the
emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major
interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian
public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of
space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought,
For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography’s
past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of
action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of
modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique
of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as
a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical
geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a
methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel
theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short,
both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from
within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from
outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades
into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing
a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become
detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought.
For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving
in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative
geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it
takes its place in the canonical works of critical
geography.Â
For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is
a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the
emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926-2001), as a major
interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian
public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of
space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought,
For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past
and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action
and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern
geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the
shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern
science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he
sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for
geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories
to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the
Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic
critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical
geography has developed in the past four decades into a
heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set
of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached
from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a
New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in
English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical
traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place
in the canonical works of critical geography.
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