Theory and Methods : Critical Essays in Human Geography

Contents: Introduction Part I Spatial Science and Its Critics: A geographic methodology, William Bunge Sensations and spatial science: gratification and anxiety in the production of ordered landscapes, D. Sibley Retheorizing economic geography: from the quantitative revolution to the 'cultural turn', Trevor J. Barnes. Part II Marxist Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation, David Harvey The socio-spatial dialectic, Edward W. Soja The matter of nature, Margaret Fitzsimmons. Part III Humanistic Geography and Its Early Reconstructions: Humanistic geography, Yi-Fu Tuan Practising humanistic geography, Susan J. Smith Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, Denis Cosgrove. Part IV Agency and Structure: Human agency and human geography, Derek Gregory Human agency and human geography revisited: a critique of 'new models' of the self, Steve Pile Space and causality, or whatever happened to the subject?, Benno Werlen. Part V Time, Space, Place and Space-Time: Social reproduction and the time-geography of everyday life, Allan Pred Geography and the realm of passages, Erik Wallin Politics and space/time, Doreen Massey. Part VI Scaling Human Geographies: Is there a place for the rational actor? A geographical critique of the rational choice paradigm, Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard Beyond state-centrism? Space, territoriality and geographical scale in globalization studies, Neil Brenner Human geography without scale, Sallie A. Marston, John Paul Jones III and Keith Woodward. Part VII Feminist and Other 'Positioned' Geographies: The geography of women: an historical introduction, Alison M. Hayford Changing ourselves: a geography of position, Peter Jackson Postcolonialising geography: tactics and pitfalls, Jenny Robinson I lost an arm on my last trip back home: black geographies, Katherine McKittrick. Part VIII Poststructuralist Geographies: Geography and power: the work of Michel Foucault, Felix Driver Understanding diversity: the problem of/for 'theory', Linda McDowell My dinner with Derrida, or spatial analysis and poststructuralism do lunch, D.P. Dixon and J.P. Jones III Poststructuralist geographies: the essential selection, Marcus A. Doel. Part IX Posthumanist Geographies: Inhuman/nonhuman/human: actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society, Jonathan Murdoch The body as 'place': reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria, Heidi J. Nast Making connections and thinking through emotions: between geography and psychotherapy, Liz Bondi From born to made: technology, biology and space, Nigel Thrift. Part X Limits to Human Geography: Hemming the way, Gunnar Olsson Coming out of geography: towards a queer epistemology, Jon Binnie Neo-critical geography, or, the flat pluralist world of business class, Neil Smith Name index.