Geography : history and concepts : a student's guide /: history and concepts : a student's guide. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arild Holt-Jensen.
• Other Names: Holt-Jensen, Arild
• Contents: What is Geography?; Introduction; Exploration and the cosmographic tradition; A science of synthesis; A modeloriented approach; Local responses to global processes; deviations from the models in focus; An organizational plan of geography; A new synthesis?; Homo geographicus; Specialization and pluralism; The Foundation of Geography; Geography in the ancient world; Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Varenius; The philosopher, Immanuel Kant; The `classical' period; From cosmography to an institutionalized discipline; Darwinism; The social anarchists; Geomorphology and physiography provide academic respect; Environmental determinism and possibilism; The French school of regional geography; Landscapes and regions; Regional studies in Britain; Geography 1950S-1980S; 30 Years of Progress; Changing job market; The development of applied geography; A discipline ripe for change; The growth of 'spatial science'; Critics of the spatial science school; The achievements of spatial science; Paradigms and Revolutions; Kuhn's paradigms; Critics of Kuhn; Induction, deduction and abduction; Changing paradigms in geography?; An idiographic or nomothetic science?; Absolute and relative space; What kind of revolution?; A 'critical' revolution?; Rerolution or evolution?; Positivism and its Critics; Positivism and critical theory; The development of positivism; Principles in positivism; Criticisms of positivism; Dialectics, Hegel and Marx; breaking down binaries; Science as a force transforming society; Practical consequences for research; Geography and empiricism; The positivism of spatial science; Humanistic approaches; Behavioural and welfare geography; Structuralism; New Trends and Ideas Developed in the Last Decades; Structuration theory; Realism; Agency, structures and actor-network theory; Post-structuralism; Post-modernism; Gender and feminist geography; New tools in geographical research; satellite photos and GIS; To unite a vernacular and an academic definition of geography; Conclusions; References and Bibliography; Author and Personality Index; Glossary and Subject Index;
• Edition: 4th ed
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Subjects: 910.01; Human geography -- Philosophy; Human geography -- Methodology; Human geography -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446242834; 1446242838
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