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Informationen zum Autor Chris Philo was appointed to a Chair in Geography at the University of Glasgow in 1995. His research interests concern the historical! cultural and rural geographies of mental ill-health! as well as social geographies of 'outsiders'; children's geographies; new animal geographies; historical and contemporary figurations of public space; Foucauldian studies and the history! historiography and theoretical development of geography Zusammenfassung Tackles the complex terrain of theory and methods, seeking to exemplify the major philosophical, social-theoretic and methodological developments - some with political and ethical implications - that have traversed human geography since the era of the 1960s when spatial science came to the fore. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology! William Bunge; Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes! D. Sibley; Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn'! Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation! David Harvey; The socio-spatial dialectic! Edward W. Soja; The matter of nature! Margaret Fitzsimmons. Part III Humanistic Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Humanistic geography! Yi-Fu Tuan; Practising humanistic geography! Susan J. Smith; Prospect! perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea! Denis Cosgrove. Part IV Agency and Structure: Human agency and human geography! Derek Gregory; Human agency and human geography revisited: a critique of 'new models' of the self! Steve Pile; Space and causality! or whatever happened to the subject?! Benno Werlen. Part V Time! Space! Place and Space-Time: Social reproduction and the time-geography of everyday life! Allan Pred; Geography and the realm of passages! Erik Wallin; Politics and space/time! Doreen Massey. Part VI Scaling Human Geographies: Is there a place for the rational actor? A geographical critique of the rational choice paradigm! Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard; Beyond state-centrism? Space! territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies! Neil Brenner; Human geography without scale! Sallie A. Marston! John Paul Jones III and Keith Woodward. Part VII Feminist and Other 'Positioned' Geographies: The geography of women: an historical introduction! Alison M. Hayford; Changing ourselves: a geography of position! Peter Jackson; Postcolonialising geography: tactics and pitfalls! Jenny Robinson; I lost an arm on my last trip back home: black geographies! Katherine McKittrick. Part VIII Poststructuralist Geographies: Geography and power: the work of Michel Foucault! Felix Driver; Understanding diversity: the problem of/for 'theory'! Linda McDowell; My dinner with Derrida! or spatial analysis and poststructuralism do lunch! D.P. Dixon and J.P. Jones III; Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection! Marcus A. Doel. Part IX Posthumanist Geographies: Inhuman/nonhuman/human: actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society! Jonathan Murdoch; The body as 'place': reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano! Nigeria! Heidi J. Nast; Making connections and thinking through emotions: between geography and psychotherapy! Liz Bondi; From born to made: technology! biology and space! Nigel Thrift. Part X Limits to Human Geography: Hemming the way! Gunnar Olsson; Coming out of geography: towards a queer epistemology! Jon Binnie; Neo-critical geography! or! the flat pluralist world of business class! Neil Smith; Name index. ...
