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Spaces of Postmodernity P: Readings in Human Geography

Spaces of Postmodernity P: Readings in Human Geography

by Michael Dear (Editor), Michael Dear (Editor)

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This Reader recounts the story of the emergence and impact of postmodern thought in human geography. The editors have brought together in a single volume the pivotal writings of the period since 1965. Through these, and their connecting narratives, the editors engage with what has been the most invigorating intellectual roller-coaster ride in geography's recent history. Part one of the volume traces the shift in human geography from a plethora of pre-postmodern paradigms to the emergence of a postmodern consciousness. Part two outlines an agenda for a postmodern human geographical theory and practice that sympathetically intersects with feminism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, and environmentalism. This critical account of the spaces of postmodernity will be required reading for anyone interested in the production of place, and the state of contemporary social theory.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 504
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 20 Dec 2001
ISBN 10: 0631217827
ISBN 13: 9780631217824

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A postmodern perspective on the development of the geographical imagination over the last thirty years. Dear and Flusty provide a timely and provocative account of the significance of space in contemporary social theory. -- Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Author Bio

Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director ofthe Southern California Studies Center at the University ofSouthern California. He was recently a Fellow at the Center forAdvanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and held aGuggenheim Fellowship in 1989. He received Honors from theAssociation of American Geographers in 1995. He is theauthor/editor of a dozen books including most recently ThePostmodern Urban Condition (Blackwell, 2000), and FromChicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory (Sage,2001).

Steven Flusty is a doctoral candidate in the Departmentof Geography at the University of Southern California. He is theauthor of numerous articles for academic journals, professionalpublications and the popular press, as well as a monograph onspaces of surveillant control entitled Building Paranoia: TheProliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of SpatialJustice. In addition to his current, on-going research into theeveryday practices of global formation, he has worked in industrialdesign, architecture, and urban design for both the public andprivate sectors.