Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social TheoryVerso, 1989 - 266 стор. 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. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 61
Сторінка 2
... interpretation of postmodern geographies : Then I saw the Aleph ... And here begins my despair as a writer . All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past . How , then , can I translate into words ...
... interpretation of postmodern geographies : Then I saw the Aleph ... And here begins my despair as a writer . All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past . How , then , can I translate into words ...
Сторінка 3
... interpret the historical geography of cities , regions , states , and the world economy . The more empirically - based spatializations of the last three essays are reproduced and explained in a different way in the first two chapters ...
... interpret the historical geography of cities , regions , states , and the world economy . The more empirically - based spatializations of the last three essays are reproduced and explained in a different way in the first two chapters ...
Сторінка 5
... interpretation of the dramatic and often confusing fourth modernization of capitalism that is presently taking place . It is becoming increasingly clear that this profound restructuring cannot be practically and politically understood ...
... interpretation of the dramatic and often confusing fourth modernization of capitalism that is presently taking place . It is becoming increasingly clear that this profound restructuring cannot be practically and politically understood ...
Сторінка 6
... essays . They too can be read first to provide a different introduction . The reassertion of space and the interpretation of postmodern geographies are not only a focus for empirical investigation , 6 Postmodern Geographies.
... essays . They too can be read first to provide a different introduction . The reassertion of space and the interpretation of postmodern geographies are not only a focus for empirical investigation , 6 Postmodern Geographies.
Сторінка 7
... interpretation of space as a ' concrete abstraction ' , a social hieroglyphic similar to Marx's conceptualization of the commodity form . Philosophers and geogra- phers have tended to bounce back and forth between these two distort- ing ...
... interpretation of space as a ' concrete abstraction ' , a social hieroglyphic similar to Marx's conceptualization of the commodity form . Philosophers and geogra- phers have tended to bounce back and forth between these two distort- ing ...
Зміст
History Geography Modernity | 10 |
Spatializations Marxist Geography and Critical Social Theory | 43 |
The Sociospatial Dialectic | 76 |
Urban and Regional Debates the First Round | 94 |
Reassertions Towards a Spatialized Ontology | 118 |
Spatializations A Critique of the Giddensian Version | 138 |
The Historical Geography of Urban and Regional Restructuring | 157 |
It All Comes Together in Los Angeles | 190 |
Taking Los Angeles Apart Towards a Postmodern Geography | 222 |
Bibliography | 249 |
259 | |
Інші видання - Показати все
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory Edward W. Soja Перегляд фрагмента - 1989 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
Angeles assertion become capitalist capitalist city capitalist development Castells central centre century conceptualization concrete consciousness context core County crisis critical human geography critical social theory critique cultural debate defined differentiation division of labour downtown empirical Ernest Mandel existential expansion exploitation fin de siècle Fordist Foucault geographically uneven development geography of capitalism Giddens Giddens's global Harvey Henri Lefebvre historical geography historicism history and geography human geography ideology increasingly interpretation landscape Lefebvre Lefebvre's Mandel Marx Marx's Marxist geography materialist Modern Geography nodality ontological organization periphery political economy postmodern postmodern geographies production of space radical reassertion of space relations of production reproduction Sartre sectors simultaneously social and spatial social production social relations social science society socio-spatial dialectic spatial division spatial problematic spatial structure spatiality of social specific superprofits surplus-value temporal territorial theoretical tion transfer of value transformation unequal exchange urban and regional urban sociology Western Marxism
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 6 - [w]e must be insistently aware of how space can be made to hide consequences from us, how relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life, how human geographies become filled with politics and ideology