| Author 1: | Edward W. Soja | |
| Title: | Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertation of Space in Critical Social Theory | |
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| Place: | London | |
| Publisher: | Verso | |
| Year: | 1994 | |
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| Location: | UB Tü: 36 A 10830 | |
| Synopsis: | First published in 1989, "Postmodern Geographies" contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. The postmodern geography of Los Angeles serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space. | |
| Keyword 1: | space | |
| Keyword 2: | city | |
| Keyword 3: | social theory | |
| Keyword 4: | history | |
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