Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis

Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis focuses upon one of the key themes which have served to shape disciplinary debates in geography over the past decade: the role of postmodernity and postmodern interpretations in reconfiguring our ways of framing social enquiry and our readings of space.
This edited collection presents numerous perspectives on the implications of the postmodern turn for the praxis of geography. The contributors engage in debate about the epistemological bases of possible new geographical praxes – "other" possible ways of "doing geography" – while also querying the implications of postmodern approaches for geography and geographers′ political role.
Contributors to the Volume:
Denis Cosgrove, Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Steven Flusty, Vincenzo Guarrasi, Cindi Katz, Luciana L. Martins, Claudio Minca, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja.

Spis treści:
Preface. (Claudio Minca).
1. The Post Modern Turn. (Michael Dear).
Part I: Cities.
2. Exploring the Postmetropolis. (Edward W. Soja).
3. Postmodern Geographical Praxis? Postmodern Impulse and the War against Homeless People in the "Post–Justice" City. (Don Mitchell).
4. Hiding the Target: Social Reproduction in the Privatized Urban Environment. (Cindi Katz).
Part II: Scales.
5. Shifting Cities. (Giuseppe Dematteis).
6. Adventures of a Barong: A Worm′s–Eye View of Global Formation. (Steven Flusty).
7. Rescaling Politics: Geography, Globalism and the New Urbanism. (Neil Smith).
Part III: Mappings.
8. Millenial Geographics. (Denis Cosgrove and Luciana De Lima Martins).
9. Postmodern Temptations. (Claudio Minca).
10. Paradoxes of Modern and Postmodern Geography: Heterotopia of Landscape and Cartographic Logic. (Vincenzo Guarrasi).
11. Mapping the Global, or the Metaquantum Economics of Myth. (Franco Farinelli) 12. Washed in a Washing MachineT 82;. (Gunnar Olsson).
Afterword. (Edward W. Soja).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Claudio Minca is Associate Professor in Political and Economic Geography at the University of Venice and teaches an annual course on "Postmodern Cities and Spaces" at Venice International University. He has written widely on geographical representations and the postmodern turn in geography and is the author of Spazi Effimeri (1996) and the editor of Introduzione alla Geografia Postmoderna (2001).

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Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis focuses upon one of the key themes which have served to shape disciplinary debates in geography over the past decade: the role of postmodernity and postmodern interpretations in reconfiguring our ways of framing social enquiry and our readings of space.
This edited collection presents numerous perspectives on the implications of the postmodern turn for the praxis of geography. The contributors engage in debate about the epistemological bases of possible new geographical praxes – "other" possible ways of "doing geography" – while also querying the implications of postmodern approaches for geography and geographers′ political role.
Contributors to the Volume:
Denis Cosgrove, Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Steven Flusty, Vincenzo Guarrasi, Cindi Katz, Luciana L. Martins, Claudio Minca, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja.