Earth Ways Framing Geographical Meanings

by Backhaus, Gary; Murungi, John; Dasgupta, Deepanwita; Kirkman, Robert; Moore, Jason W.; iyo nsenga, François-Xavier Nzi; Peskin, Lawrence A.; Skocz, Dennis E.; Steege, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780739107645
• ISBN10: 073910764X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-03
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

How do you connect the discipline of anthropology to both philosophy and geography? What about history, sociology, and other applied and theoretical forms of knowledge? In Earth Ways: Framing Geographical Meanings, Gary Backhaus and John Murungi challenge contributors to find the organizing component, or framings, that enables them to bridge their own work to philosophy and geography. What emerges are truly creative contributions to interdisciplinary thought.

Author Biography

Gary Backhaus teaches at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland Deepwanita Dasgupta is pursuing a second doctorate in the philosophy of science at the University of Minnesota Robert Kirkman is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy of the Georgia Institute of Technology Jason Moore is a world historian and graduate student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley Francois-Xavier Nzi iyo nsenga is an independent scholar in design and sociology Lawrence Peskin is Assistant Professor of History at Morgan State University John M. Rose is Professor of Philosophy at Goucher College in Maryland Dennis E. Skoez is an independent scholar and is a U.S. diplomat currently assigned to the Pentagon to work with NATO Paul Steege is currently Assistant Professor of History at Villanova University

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Earth Ways: The Primordial Relation Between the Ways of Knowing and the Ways of Earthly Phenomena	ix
Gary Backhaus
I. Framing Historical Contexts
Herodotus and the Origins of Geography: The Strange, the Familiar, and the Earthbound	1	(22)
Dennis E. Skocz
Conceptualizing World Environmental History: The Contribution of Immanuel Wallerstein	23	(20)
Jason W. Moore
Rousseau in the Suburbs: Geography, Environment, and the Philosophical Tradition	43	(16)
Robert Kirkman
II. Framing Substantive Theories
Toward a Phenomenology of Cognitive Mapping	59	(18)
Gary Backhaus
The Die is Cast: Boundaries of Time, Boundaries of Space	77	(18)
John M. Rose
The Geography of Material Artifacts and an Outline for Synergetic Geography	95	(20)
Francois-Xavier Nzi iyo nsenga
Gary Backhaus
III. Framing Case Studies of Specific Time-Places
A Contextualized Science and the Changing Landscapes of India: A Case Study of Science as a Graft	115	(24)
Deepanwita Dasgupta
Pirates and the Geography of Knowledge: America and Algiers in the Late Eighteenth Century	139	(16)
Lawrence A. Peskin
Finding the There There: Local Space, Global Ritual, and Early Cold War Berlin	155	(18)
Paul Steege
Selected Bibliography	173	(12)
Index	185	(8)
About the Contributors	193