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Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography

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Horizons in Human Geography

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Abstract

If my title seems strange, so much the better. In this essay I want to explore some fragments of the contemporary intellectual landscape and to suggest some of the ways in which they bear upon modern human geography: and all of this will, I suspect, be unsettling. (Or, at any rate, if I can convey what is happening successfully then it ought to be unsettling.)

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Further Reading

  • The clearest summary of Harvey’s work will be found in his ‘The Geopolitics of Capitalism’, in Derek Gregory and John Urry (eds) Social Relations and Spatial Structures (London: Macmillan, 1985) pp. 128–163. (Many of the essays in this book are directly relevant to the themes addressed in the present chapter).

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  • For more detail, sample the essays collected together in Harvey’s Consciousness and the Urban Experience and The Urbanization of Capital (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985). For Doreen Massey, see her chapter with Richard Meegan in this volume and the references given there.

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  • The best introduction to Giddens’s ideas is still, in my view, his A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism Volume 1: Power, Property and the State (London: Macmillan, 1981). New readers should begin at Chapter 3!

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  • George Marcus and Michael Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique: an experimental moment in the human sciences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986) is essential reading for anyone interested in he problem of description and representation.

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  • I have developed these ideas further in my The Geographical Imagination (London: Hutchinson, forthcoming).

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Derek Gregory (Professor of Geography)

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Derek Gregory (Professor of Geography) (Professor of Geography)

  2. University of Cambridge, UK

    Rex Walford (Lecturer in Education) (Lecturer in Education)

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Gregory, D. (1989). Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography. In: Gregory, D., Walford, R. (eds) Horizons in Human Geography. Horizons in Geography. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19839-9_5

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