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Beschreibung
For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography

Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926-2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.

Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside.

Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography.

For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography

Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926-2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.

Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field's foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside.

Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography.

Zusammenfassung
Milton Santos (1926-2001) was one of twentieth-century geography's most creative conceptual thinkers. He played a determining role in the history of critical geography and social science in Brazil. Santos's theoretical work provided the framework for a generation of radical Latin American approaches to space, urbanity, nature, and globalization. In 1994 he won the Vautrin Lud Prize, often called the Nobel of geography.

Archie Davies is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents

Translator's Introduction: The Newness of Geography

Archie Davies

Introduction: From a Critique of Geography to a Critical Geography

Part I. The Critique of Geography

1. The Founders: Scientific Pretensions

2. Philosophical Inheritance

3. Postwar Renovation: "A New Geography"

4. Quantitative Geography

5. Models and Systems: The Ecosystems

6. The Geography of Perception and Behavior

7. The Triumph of Formalism and Ideology

8. The Balance of the Crisis: Geography, Widow of Space

Part II. Geography, Society, Space

9. A New Interdisciplinarity

10. An Attempt to Define Space

11. Space: Reflection of Society or Social Fact?

12. Space: A Factor?

13. Space as Social Order

Part III. For a Critical Geography

14. In Search of a Paradigm

15. Total Space in Our Time

16. State and Space: The Nation-State as a Geographical Unit of Study

17. The Ideas of Totality and Social Formation and the Renovation of Geography

18. The Idea of Time in Geographical Studies

Conclusion: Geography and the Future of Man

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Genre: Geowissenschaften
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781517909086
ISBN-10: 1517909082
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Santos, Milton
Übersetzung: Davies, Archie
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 14 x 140 x 216 mm
Von/Mit: Milton Santos
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,341 kg
Artikel-ID: 120381909

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