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May 17, 2016 · Human geography took a postmodern turn in the 1990s, producing a form of inquiry that tied the study of geography with social justice and focused on pluralities, binaries, positionalities and deconstruction. Space, in the 1990s, appeared as a social construct in constant transformation.
- Courtney J. Campbell
- 2016
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- Yi-Fu Tuan
- Najeeb Jan (University of Colorado, USA)
- Margaret Grieco (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
- Mauro Caraccioli (University of Florida, USA)
- Helga Leitner (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Emma Roe (University of Southampton, UK)
history of geography, language, movement, poststructuralism, space
I hate to be the creature of my time, and particularly of my age, but I am afraid this talk is going to review both. In other words, although the speakers thus far have addressed the present and the future, what I have to say here cannot help but have a slightly musty odour to it. In 2005, I went back to China after an absence of 64 years. My Chine...
In your closing remarks you suggested that the poetry within our concepts is often more compelling than their formal or logical senses. The privileging of the poetic over the technical element of thought suggests the proximity between the concept of spa-tiality and the thought of ontology, which is to say that at the limits of thought the concept o...
It would be interesting to see some discussion of gender because it seems to me that we are not look-ing at gendered geographies . . . well we are looking at gendered geography (the panel on the stage is male, the audience is predominantly female), and it is not very positive I have to say. But we should be thinking about children’s geography that ...
Earlier today Professor Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania) encouraged geographers not merely to sit and read philosophers but to sort of sit down and have a nice candlelit dinner with them and engage in some dialogues, and throughout the session the panellists have mentioned prominent philosophers, e.g. Plato, Badiou. I would like to hear some mo...
I find it interesting that nobody mentioned that they draw their inspiration from the people they do research on or with, rather than just philosophers and writers. My question, though, is for Nigel Thrift. Nigel was arguing that the spatial template of the world is changing, and he made a very interesting and convincing argument about these new ‘m...
There has been a lot of reference to the humanities (e.g. art) as potentially offering geography a resource for theorizing space and spatiality. Natural science has not yet been referenced in this debate. I have spent quite a lot of time working with animal scientists over the last five years and this year I have had the opportunity to work with hu...
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Oct 1, 2016 · This paper critically reviews the current status of the concept of distance in human geography in order to argue that recent experimentally-driven work in construal-level theory offers ample opportunities for recasting distance as a key geographical trope.
- Dragos Simandan
- 2016
More than anything, geography is about spatial relationships and utilizing a spatial perspective to view and understand the world. This is in contrast with looking at the world with a chronological perspective, where time, instead of place, is the primary unit of analysis.
Containing over 6,400 entries on all aspects of both human and physical geography, this best-selling dictionary is the most comprehensive single-volume reference work of its kind.
Geography focuses upon Earth's features and conditions by asking where they are found (the spatial context, or location). Both history and geography, then, are methodologies —unique ways of thinking about our world and its events, conditions, patterns, and consequences.
Aug 29, 2018 · Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, who in 1991 defined geography as "the study of earth as the home of people," has written about how people think and feel about space and place in a personal sense, from their home and neighborhood to their nation, and how that's affected by time.
