New Models In Geography 2-Vols-Set (2017)

Book Details

• ISBN: 9788131608647

• Publication Year: 2017

• Pages: 390 pages

• Binding: Hardback

• Sale Territory: India Only

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

About the Book
Following two decades after the groundbreaking Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley and Peter Haggett, this collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. It provides a survey of recent trends in theory, along with bibliographic guides to literature, and insights into key advances in geographical thinking. Spanning topics from cultural to economic and urban geography, the authors explore the interconnections between political economy and geographical theory, emphasizing material production and social reproduction. Essential for students of geography, this work offers valuable perspectives on contemporary geography for social scientists in general.

Contents

• PART I: NEW MODELS

  • Political Economy and Human Geography by Richard Peet & Nigel Thrift

  • Mathematical Models in Human Geography: 20 Years On by Martin Clarke & Alan Wilson

• PART II: NEW MODELS OF THE CITY

  • The City as Locus of Production by Helga Leitner & Eric Sheppard

  • Reproduction, Class, and the Spatial Structure of the City by Geraldine Pratt

  • Women in the City by Suzanne Mackenzie

  • Third World Cities by Lata Chatterjee

• PART III: NEW MODELS OF CIVIL SOCIETY

  • The Geography of Gender by Sophie Bowlby, Jane Lewis, Linda McDowell, & Jo Foord

  • Geography, Race, and Racism by Peter Jackson

  • Marxism, Culture, and the Duplicity of Landscape by Stephen Daniels

  • What is a Locality? by Simon Duncan

• PART IV: NEW MODELS OF SOCIAL THEORY

  • Peripheral Capitalism and the Regional Problematic by David Slater

  • Sociology and Geography by John Urry

  • Modern Geography, Western Marxism, and the Restructuring of Critical Social Theory by Edward Soja

  • The Crisis of Modernity? Human Geography and Critical Social Theory by Derek Gregory

About the Author / Editor

• Richard Peet is a Professor of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.

• Nigel Thrift is a Reader in Geography at the University of Bristol.