The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography): Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations (Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography) - Tapa dura

 
9780415733205: The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography): Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations (Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography)
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ISBN 10: 0415733200 ISBN 13: 9780415733205
Editorial: Routledge, 2013

Sinopsis

Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying them and the links between them. The sociological imagination aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical uses. They show that place is as important for understanding contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also show how the concept can provide insight into ‘old’ problems such as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice. The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept that can ‘mediate’ the geographical and sociological imaginations.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415733200
ISBN 13 
9780415733205
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
242
Editor
Agnew John, Duncan James
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