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Postmodern Geography de Minca

Postmodern Geography

Autor Minca
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2001
This edited collection brings together some of the most authoritative voices in contemporary debates in geography: Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Cindy Katz, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja to address the question of 'praxis' within broader discussions
of the postmodern in geography.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631225607
ISBN-10: 0631225609
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

post–introductory students of geography and urban studies/planning Courses in urban geography, cultural geography and history of geographical thought

Notă biografică

Claudio Minca is Associate Professor in Political and Economic Geography at the University of Venice and teaches an annual course on "Postmodern Cities and Spaces" at Venice International University. He has written widely on geographical representations and the postmodern turn in geography and is the author of Spazi Effimeri (1996) and the editor of Introduzione alla Geografia Postmoderna (2001).

Cuprins

Preface. (Claudio Minca).

1. The Post Modern Turn. (Michael Dear).

Part I: Cities.

2. Exploring the Postmetropolis. (Edward W. Soja).

3. Postmodern Geographical Praxis? Postmodern Impulse and the War against Homeless People in the "Post-Justice" City. (Don Mitchell).

4. Hiding the Target: Social Reproduction in the Privatized Urban Environment. (Cindi Katz).

Part II: Scales.

5. Shifting Cities. (Giuseppe Dematteis).

6. Adventures of a Barong: A Worm's-Eye View of Global Formation. (Steven Flusty).

7. Rescaling Politics: Geography, Globalism and the New Urbanism. (Neil Smith).

Part III: Mappings.

8. Millenial Geographics. (Denis Cosgrove and Luciana De Lima Martins).

9. Postmodern Temptations. (Claudio Minca).

10. Paradoxes of Modern and Postmodern Geography: Heterotopia of Landscape and Cartographic Logic. (Vincenzo Guarrasi).

11. Mapping the Global, or the Metaquantum Economics of Myth. (Franco Farinelli) 12. Washed in a Washing Machine(TM). (Gunnar Olsson).

Afterword. (Edward W. Soja).

Index.

Descriere

Focuses on the role of postmodernity and postmodern interpretations in reconfiguring our ways of framing social enquiry and our readings of space. This collection presents numerous perspectives on the implications of the postmodern turn for the praxis of geography.