Cultural Geography
THE CIRCULARITY OF KNOWLEDGE Culture and knowledge do not sit together easily. Hence the need for a chapter on the ways they rel ...
THE CULTURE OF EPISTEMOLOGY 521 reader has to be able to comprehend the terms of the definition. We shall return to this analogy ...
‘fact’. Upon reflection, circularity yet again rears its untimely head. Rather than recognizing a ‘fact’, we accept that certain ...
Reformation in western Europe is of key significance precisely because it shattered the cer- tainties of old and replaced them w ...
the 1970s (Bennett et al., 1981; Storey, 1993). From our current perspective it is vital to note that the importance of culture ...
what it lacks in transferability, it makes up in rigour and precision. Crucially, ‘culture’ played a key role in the constructio ...
the writings of Foucault, who read the accepted history of western progress against the grain and in this way uncovered the ‘bli ...
(Cresswell, 1996; Pile and Keith, 1997; Scott, 1985). However, the epistemological status of such claims remains unclear and con ...
aesthetic concepts such as ‘landscape’ and economic concepts like weights and measure- ments – the (modern) subject occupied a p ...
‘metatheory’ of the kind attempted in this chapter: the examination of possibilities, limitations and contradictions within, as ...
Duden, B. (1993) Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn. Cambridge, MA Harvard: University Press. Foucault ...
Rorty, R. (1979) Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Rose, G. (1993) Feminism and Geogra ...
GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGY This chapter examines how technology changes geography and, in the process, changes in the most fundame ...
KNOWLEDGE AND GEOGRAPHY’S TECHNOLOGY 533 discourse. Finally, this section points to cultural studies of the materiality of techn ...
in geography. Although dated in many ways, Marx’s classical analysis of production itself pro- vides a useful opening for graspi ...
and fetishization of technology lead to a closure of cultural opportunities. An earlier publication, one emblematic for humanist ...
poststructuralist understandings of technology that emphasize its situated and embedded charac- ter. Situatedness exhibits sever ...
value systems in much of this work (Star, 1991). Numerous other geographers have drawn on this work (including Alderman, 1998; C ...
that stands out for a number of reasons. First of all, it is a history of cartographic thought and the central role of authority ...
widely read and criticized by practitioners of GIS, many of whom retain the tool metaphor as their modus operandi (Wright et al. ...
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