Geography : history and concepts
Arild Holt-Jensen
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Originaltittel | [ Geografiens innhold og metoder .] Engelsk
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| Omfang | xxi, 276 sider : figurer, kart
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| Utgave | 5. utgave
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| Opplysninger | "Second edition published 1988. Third edition published 1999 [...]. Fourth edition published 2009" - Tittelsidens verso. - Machine generated contents note: 1.What Is Geography? -- Introduction: dream and reality -- Popular and professional notions on geography -- Place, space, territoriality and globalization -- Homo geographicus -- Geography between physical science, social science and arts -- Exploration and the cosmographic tradition -- A science of synthesis -- Man and nature sustainability: a major research focus -- Thinking geographically -- 2.The Roots Of Geography -- Geography in the ancient world -- Herodotus -- Eratosthenes -- Ptolemy -- Strabo -- The Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Arab Geographers -- Europeans -- China -- The Renaissance -- Varenius -- Immanuel Kant -- The 'classical' period -- Humboldt -- Ritter -- Legacies of the early historic development -- 3.From Cosmography To An Institutionalized Discipline -- Geographical societies -- Geography becomes an academic discipline -- Geography at British universities -- The USA -- The 'New' Geography -- Darwinism-- The social anarchists -- Reclus -- Kropotkin -- Geomorphology and physiography provide academic respect -- The German school of geomorphology -- Huxley and Davis -- Environmental determinism -- Ratzel, Kjellen and Mackinder -- The promotion of determinism -- Achievements in the period of institutionalization -- 4.The Regional Tradition -- The advent of possibilism -- The French school of regional geography -- The Methode Vidalienne -- Regional monographs and the Annales school -- Landscapes and regions -- Landscape chronology -- Landscape ecology -- Landscape morphology -- Regional studies in Britain -- Patrick Geddes -- The regional approach, critics and achievements -- 5.The Growth Of Spatial Science -- Changing job market -- The development of applied geography -- A discipline ripe for change -- Quantification and models -- Swedish innovations -- Contributions to spatial science in the UK -- Absolute and relative space -- Critics of the spatial science school-- The achievements of spatial science -- Preliminary conclusions -- 6.Paradigms And Revolutions -- Kuhn's paradigms -- Critics of Kuhn -- Induction and deduction -- Popper and critical rationalism -- Changing paradigms in geography? -- An idiographic or nomothetic science? -- What kind of revolution? -- A 'critical' revolution? -- Revolution or evolution? -- 7.Positivism And Its Critics -- Positivism and critical theory -- The development of positivism -- Principles in positivism -- Critics of positivism -- Dialectics, Hegel and Marx: breaking down binaries -- Science as a force transforming society -- Practical consequences for research -- Geography and empiricism -- The positivism of spatial science -- 8.Alternatives To Spatial Science -- Multi-paradigmatic development -- Humanistic approaches -- Behavioural and welfare geography -- Structuralism -- Marxist geographies -- Achievements of the early alternatives to spatial science -- 9.Post-Structuralism And Beyond-- Structuration theory -- Critical realism -- A useful methodological approach -- Post-industrialism, post-structuralism and postmodernism -- Post-structuralism -- Postmodernism -- Gender and feminist geography -- Summary -- 10.Geographical Tasks In A Globalizing World -- The missing histories of geography -- Critical geopolitics and the revival of political geography -- Post-colonialism -- New cultural geography and non-representational theory -- The rediscovery of nature: actor-network theory and hybridity -- Researching human and nature sustainability -- Neo-liberalism and geography of poverty and affluence -- Time-space compression and the changing relations between place, space and scale: assemblage theory -- Changing worlds, changing tools: satellite photos and GIS -- Future geographies.
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| ISBN | 9781526440143. - 9781526440150
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