Postmodern Geographies

In social sciences, "space" remained in the shadow of historicism for a long time. While thinkers always focused on the historical and processes and saw space as artificial and contrary to empirical thought and dialectics, geographers remained stuck in their own disciplines. In Postmodern Geographies, Edward W. Soja examines the process of space's reemergence in critical theory and reveals the debates in this process. Examining the views of many twentieth-century thinkers on geography and urban planning, from Foucault and Lefebvre to Giddens and Castells, Soja focuses on the geographical aspect of the postmodern period, makes a comprehensive critique of approaches that absolutize history and push geography into the background, and equips critical social theory with a capacity to include space.

In this work that goes beyond the boundaries of the discipline of geography, Soja not only examines the shortcomings of Marxist geographers regarding space, but also lays the foundations of his own dialectical thought that focuses on social space. For those who think about how the relationship between space and time can deepen urban theory and what kind of perspectives it can offer in the urban struggle.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Printing Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 352

Size: 14 x 21

Media Type: Paperback

Original Language: English

Original Title: Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space