Publication

1989 - Verso, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

66,500 words, Guess

Page Count

266 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivepostmoderngeogra00soja
  • ISBN-100860912256
  • ISBN-100860919366
  • ISBN-139780860912255
  • ISBN-139780860919360
and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCG70 .S62 1989
  • DDC910/.01

Description

"Written by one of America's foremost geographers, 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 powerful 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. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of 'flexible accumulation.' The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space."--Back cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Postmodern geographiesVerso1989

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