The Dictionary of Human Geography

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I iconography The description and interpret- ation of visualimagesin order to disclose and interpret their hermetic or symbolic ...

the work of Leonard Guelke, who drew on historian R.G. Collingwood’s ‘historical ideal- ism’, which insisted that ‘all history i ...

only conditional, lodged in contingency, but divested of any transcendental authority it be- comes little more than the effect o ...

At present, processes ofmigration,trans- nationalismanddiasporaplace identity (or the project ofidentification) firmly on the th ...

seen to be the prime movers shaping other aspects of social formations, such as law, reli- gion or general modes of consciousnes ...

The traces of Althusser’s account of ideol- ogy are still evident in theories of culture, dis- course, governmentality and hegem ...

enquiry, but the issues it signals continue to animate geographers concerned with articulat- ing theoretical claims with empiric ...

cultures and ‘natures’ – that articulate the desires, fantasies and fears of their authors and the grids of power between them a ...

necessarily without concreteness, substance and, indeed, ‘reality’. On the contrary, im- aginative geographies circulate in mate ...

overwhelming majority of their citizens are either immigrants themselves or the descen- dents of immigrants. Until recently, vir ...

importance of immigrants in (re)defining contemporary economic, political and cul- tural systems. For example, non-white people ...

informal) and cycles of global dominance (Blaut, 1993; Taylor, 1996; Abernethy, 2000: cf. world systems theory). Monocausal, tel ...

emerge in the actual practice of everyday life (Agrawal, 1995). For others, the idea of indi- genous knowledge as a singular con ...

a highly flexible labour market, internal to the district; a unique local cultural identity; specialized sources of finance, tec ...

methods, but the disciplinary norm tended to meticulous, empirically descriptive case stud- ies of one firm, industry or industr ...

In unpacking the geographical character of post-Fordism during the 1990s, industrial geographers rediscovered the idea of anindu ...

1987; Hudson, 1989). There were many dif- ferent routes to industrialization: in its timing, causes and manifestation, the indus ...

Suggested reading Berg (1994); Gregory (1990); Langton (1984). industrialization The process whereby industrial activity comes t ...

standards, which remain of fundamental importance (Smith, D.M., 1994a). Addition- ally, however, work has focused on the spa- ti ...