Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory - Couverture souple

Soja, Edward W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0860919366 ISBN 13 : 9780860919360

Editeur : Verso Books, 1989

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Edward W. Soja teaches Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on African development and on the economic and spatial restructuring of the Los Angeles region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860919366
• ISBN 13: 9780860919360
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
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