| Description |
1 online resource (334 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography |
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Routledge library editions. Social and cultural geography.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1 Region, place and locale: an introduction to different conceptions of regional geography; 2 Regional geography must adjust to new realities; 3 The changing view of the world in major geographical textbooks; 4 Regions of the world system: between the general and the specific; 5 Re-thinking regions: some preliminary considerations on regions and social change; 6 What about regional geography after structuration theory? |
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7 Regional geography: between scientific theory, ideology, and practice (or, What use is regional geography?)8 The challenge for regional geography: some proposals for research frontiers; 9 Metamorphosis: how spatial facts change into classes of geographical regions; 10 Doing regional geography in a global system: the new international financial system, the City of London, and the South East of England, 1984-7; Epilogue: towards an agenda for regional geographical research |
| Summary |
This book urges the case for reinstating regional geography as a contemporary and relevant methodology. Much interest was shown in the 1980s in reviving, yet restructuring, the field of regional geography. The essays in this book both review that work and propose a way forward. The essays divide into three sections. The first assesses traditional regional geography and its relevance to the study of contemporary situations; the second, the alternative approaches of world-systems analysis, diffusion and structuration theory. The book concludes by considering the potential of regional geograph |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hauer, Joost
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Hoekveld, G
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| ISBN |
9781317820604 |
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1317820606 |
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