The Dictionary of Human Geography

around which other histories and other geographies were to be organized (cf. Young, 1990b). (2) Exhibiting the world:the product ...

tyranny of unelected rulers in Europe was never extended to the native peoples of Asia, Africa and the Americas. The fate of the ...

processes and practices, one whose proven- ance lies betweenstructuralismandphe- nomenology, and one that raises lived experienc ...

have also come through place-specific studies of changing everyday worlds andlanguage under conditions of modernity that are att ...

sovereign power (rather than vice versa) (Agamben, 1998). This crucial decision – in the original German sense of ‘a cut in life ...

World War, and influenced during his tenure at the University of Iowa by thelogical posi- tivist and former Vienna Circle member ...

mediation that is required to explain why exchange occurs yields equivocal answers: all we can categorically say is that finite ...

ontological and metaphysical characteristics, existentialism became part of theideology it attacked: its radicalism was illusory ...

provoke, significant discussion, an there have been several refinements and alternatives (Salmon, 1990). Harvey (1969) made the ...

‘Age of Discovery’ were by-products of com- mercial, evangelistic and colonial motives. Ostensibly more scientific were the Paci ...

is to pay scant attention to a whole suite of issues to do with the construction of Western identity, the representations of ‘ex ...

to re-imagine themselves (Fulford, Lee and Kitson, 2004). Evocations such as these contributed mas- sively to the generation of ...

Suggested reading Ballantyne (2004); Burnett (2000); Driver (2001a); Fernandez-Armesto (2006). exploratory data analysis (EDA) A ...

that circulated, Marshall observed, as if ‘in the air’ (see Krugman, 1991). These arguments have been vigorously rejoined in rec ...

of the company counter that most of the exter- nalities are positive ones: Wal-Mart contrib- utes to local social welfare by gen ...

F factor analysis A statistical procedure for transforming a (variables by observations) data matrix into a new matrix whose var ...

Capitalincludes all things deliberately cre- ated by humans for the purpose of production. This includes the physical plant, bui ...

non-scientific. For Popper, the division between falsifiable and non-falsifiable state- ments was inviolate, allowing consistent ...

nutritional deprivation on a persistent basis (as opposed to seasonal hunger, for example). Definitions of famine are fraught wi ...

interact withnature, and because adequate food production and consumption has proven to be crucial for the stability ofsocial fo ...