ISBN: 0516272993 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Allan Fowler Publisher: Children's Press(CT) Number of Pages: 32
The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe With this series all about geography emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities nations waterways and habitats around the worldand right in their own backyards
ISBN: 1557866813 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): David Harvey Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Number of Pages: 480
This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space time place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices not as separate elements but in relation to each other It describes how geographical differences are produced and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life
The book is divided into four parts Part I describes the problematic nature of action and analysis at different scales of time and space and introduces the reader to the modes of dialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout the remainder of the work Part II examines how "nature" and "environment" have been understood and valued in relation to processes of social change and seeks from this basis to make sense of contemporary environmental issues
Part III is a wide-ranging discussion of history geography and culture explores the meaning of the social "production" of space and time and clarifies problems related to "otherness" and "difference" The final part of the book deploys the foundational arguments the author has established to consider contemporary problems of social justice that have resulted from recent changes in geographical divisions of labor in the environment and in the pace and quality of urbanization
Justice Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Nonpareil Book, 78)
ISBN: 1567920802 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Guy Davenport Publisher: David R Godine Number of Pages: 384
As Bruce Bawer wrote in Bookforum "the late Guy Davenport (19272005) left behind an oeuvre that is one long lesson in the history of civilization and to read any part of it -- story essay or translation -- is to be enthralled by his unflagging intellectual energy and engagement" Here in this generous collection of criticism are pieces on Whitman Zukofsky Joyce Tolkien Ives Wittgenstein Greek art Spinoza's tulips -- on everything Davenport's restless learned mind reached out to possess
Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (The Wellek Library Lectures)
ISBN: 0231148461 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): David Harvey Publisher: Columbia University Press Number of Pages: 352
Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson Franklin Delano Roosevelt John F Kennedy Ronald Reagan and George W Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values Yet in practice idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo Bay the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism neoliberalism and cosmopolitanismCombining his passions for politics and geography David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance Political agendas tend to fail he argues because they ignore the complexities of geography Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy Harvey begins with an insightful critique of the political uses of freedom and liberty especially during the George W Bush administration Then through an ontological investigation into geography's foundational concepts& mdash;space place and environment& mdash;he radically reframes geographical knowledge as a basis for social theory and political action As Harvey makes clear the cosmopolitanism that emerges is rooted in human experience rather than illusory ideals and brings us closer to achieving the liberation we seek
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
ISBN: 0860919366 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Edward W. Soja Publisher: Verso Number of Pages: 266
Written by one of America's foremost geographers Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency still dominant in most social science to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror or as Marx called it an ""unnecessary complication"" Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault Berger Giddens Berman Jameson and above all Henri Lefebvre to argue for a historical and geographical materialism a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space time and social being Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of ""flexible accumulation"" The postmodern geography of Los Angeles exposed in a provocative pair of essays serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space
Discover Our Heritage: World Cultures and Geography
ISBN: 0618206612 Binding: Library Binding Edition: Author(s): Sarah W. Bednarz, Catherine Clinton, Patricia L. Marshall Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Number of Pages: 754
ISBN: 1412918693 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Dr Alastair Bonnett Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd Number of Pages: 168
This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography Drawing out the key themes that define the subject What is Geography demonstrates how and why these themes - like environment and geopolitics- are of fundamental importance Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms the text looks at key themes like environment space and place - as well as geography's methods and the history of the disciplineIntroductory but not simplified What is Geography will provide students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge Intended Audience: Designed as a key transitional text for students entering undergraduate courses this book will be of interest to all readers interested in and intrigued by the "geographical imagination"
ISBN: 0415932408 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): David Harvey Publisher: Routledge Number of Pages: 320
David Harvey is the most influential geographer of our era possessing a reputation that extends across the social sciences and humanities Spaces of Capital a collection of seminal articles and new essays spanning three decades demonstrates why his work has had-and continues to have-such a major impact The book gathers together some of Harvey's best work on two of his central concerns: the relationship between geographical thought and political power as well as the capitalist production of space In addition he chips away at geography's pretenses of "scientific" neutrality and grounds spatial theory in social justice Harvey also reflects on the work and careers of little-noticed or misrepresented figures in geography's intellectual history-Kant Von Thnen Humboldt Lattimore Hegel Heidegger Darwin Malthus Foucault and many others
