Postmodern Geography Theory and Praxis

by Minca, Claudio

• ISBN13: 9780631225591
• ISBN10: 0631225595
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This edited collection brings together some of the most authoritative voices in contemporary debates in geography: Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Cindy Katz, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja to address the question of 'praxis' within broader discussions of the postmodern in geography.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Prelude	xiv
Claudio Minca
The Postmodern Turn	1	(36)
Michael Dear
Cities...
Exploring the Postmetropolis	37	(20)
Edward W. Soja
Postmodern Geographical Praxis? The Postmodern Impulse and the War against Homeless People in the `Post-justice' City	57	(36)
Don Mitchell
Hiding the Target: Social Reproduction in the Privatized Urban Environment	93	(20)
Cindi Katz
Scales...
Shifting Cities	113	(16)
Giuseppe Dematteis
Adventures of a Barong: A Worm's-eye View of Global Formation	129	(18)
Steven Flusty
Rescaling Politics: Geography, Globalism, and the New Urbanism	147	(22)
Neil Smith
Mappings...
Millennial Geographics	169	(27)
Denis Cosgrove
Luciana L. Martins
Postmodern Temptations	196	(30)
Claudio Minca
Paradoxes of Modern and Postmodern Geography: Heterotopia of Landscape and Cartographic Logic	226	(12)
Vincenzo Guarrasi
Mapping the Global, or the Metaquantum Economics of Myth	238	(17)
Franco Farinelli
Washed in a Washing Machine	255	(27)
Gunnar Olsson
Afterword	282	(13)
Edward W. Soja
Index	295