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Adams, Paul

 
9780816637577: Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
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ISBN 10: 0816637571 ISBN 13: 9780816637577
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2001

Sinopsis

Essays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography.

Geography/ Cultural Studies

Essays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography.

A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works.

The contributors to this volume-distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature-investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives-including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape iconography-to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.

Contributors: Anne Buttimer, U College Dublin; Edward S. Casey, SUNY Stony Brook; Denis Cosgrove, UCLA; Tim Cresswell, U of Wales, Aberystwyth; Michael Curry, UCLA; Dydia DeLyser, Louisiana State U; James S. Duncan, U of Cambridge; Nancy G. Duncan, U of Cambridge; J. Nicholas Entrikin, UCLA; William Howarth, Princeton U; John Paul Jones III, U of Kentucky; David Ley, U of British Columbia; David Lowenthal, U College London; Karal Ann Marling, U of Minnesota; Patrick McGreevy, Clarion U; Kenneth R. Olwig, U of Trondheim, Norway; Marijane Osborn, UC Davis; Gillian R. Overing, Wake Forest U; Edward Relph, U of Toronto; Miles Richardson, Louisiana State U; Robert D. Sack, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Jonathan M. Smith, Texas A&M U; Yi-Fu Tuan, U of Wisconsin-Madison; April R. Veness, U of Delaware; and Wilbur Zelinsky, Pennsylvania State U.

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576 Pages 34 black-and-white photos, 1 table 7 x 10 February

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Paul C. Adams is assistant professor of geography at Texas A & M University. Steven Hoelscher is assistant professor of American studies and geography at the University of Texas, Austin. Karen E. Till is assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0816637571
ISBN 13 
9780816637577
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Número de páginas
496
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