Postmodern geography : theory and praxis

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Author:

Minca, Claudio.

ISBN:

9780631225591

9780631225607

Publication Information:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.

Physical Description:

xxix, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Prelude / Claudio Minca -- 1. The Postmodern Turn / Michael Dear -- 2. Exploring the Postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja -- 3. Postmodern Geographical Praxis? The 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 -- 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 -- 8. Millennial Geographics / Denis Cosgrove and Luciana L. 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 / Gunnar Olsson -- Afterword / Edward W. Soja.

Subject Term:

Urban geography.

Human geography -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Minca, Claudio.

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Summary

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.