Human Geography: The Politics of Changing Disciplinary Agenda
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Human geography, Anglo-American geography, history of geography, quantitative revolution, radical geography, cultural turnAbstract
In this review, it is focused on changing practices within human geography in the English-speaking, predominantly AngloAmerican world since the Second World War. This sixty year long period in the contemporary Anglo-American human geography is almost unrecognisable from the discipline’s former composition. First major change in this period is generally known as “quantitative revolution” which has three salient characteristics: rigour in description, search for spatial order and the relationship with the various aspects of the philosophy of science. However, by the 1970s, the second major change, partly a product of changing social context, was the “radical alternative” that covered issues such as social and economic inequality, poverty and civil rights stimulating negative reactions to quantitative geography. The third major change, called as “cultural turn”, from the late 1980s on, added a further major strand to human geography’s portfolio. This new orientation emphasised hybridity, seeking to break down barriers between different types of geography through as awareness that common human traits and culture underpin most of life and are inscribed in spatial structures. With these developments, human geographers today are sometimes placed in two main groups -spatial analysts and social theorists- and the discipline, characterized by a number of traditions, has became contested and a multi-paradigmatic enterprise.
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