Concepts in Human Geography

by Earle, Carville; Mathewson, Kent; Kenzer, Martin S.

• ISBN13: 9780847681051
• ISBN10: 084768105X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection explores the origins, development, and applications of the most fundamental and enduring concepts in human geography. Providing the most comprehensive examination of the field to date, nine essays on substantive concepts, such as nature, culture, space, time, region, and ecology, are flanked by seven essays on methodological concepts ranging from maps and models to feminism and postmodernism.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Back to Basics: The Virtues of Key Concepts in Human Geography
On Space and Spatial Practice in Contemporary Geography	p. 3
The Way We Were: Deployments (and Redeployments) of Time in Human Geography	p. 33
Nature - Mapping the Ghostly Traces of a Concept	p. 63
High/Low, Back/Center: Culture's Stages in Human Geography	p. 97
The Cultural Landscape Concept in American Human Geography	p. 127
Ecology as Cornerstone and Chimera in Human Geography	p. 161
Ramifications of Region and Senses of Place	p. 189
Boundaries: Setting Limits to Political Areas	p. 213
Innovation Diffusion and Paradigms of Development	p. 231
From Reality to Map	p. 273
Formal and Narrative Models and Their Value as Instruments of Understanding	p. 293
The Model of Rational Economic Man and Its Alternatives: A Brief for Intermittent Rationality	p. 323
Humanism: Wisdom of the Heart and Mind	p. 355
Structure and Agency: Contested Concepts in Human Geography	p. 383
Feminism and Human Geography	p. 411
Postmodernism in Human Geography	p. 429
Index	p. 459
About the Contributors	p. 483
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.