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MODULE OUTLINE |
Created: 31-Jul-2008, Updated: 31-Jul-2009 |
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Module Code |
GE4101A |
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Module Title
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DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC THOUGHT A |
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Semester |
Semester 1, 2009/2010 |
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Modular Credits |
5 |
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Faculty |
Arts & Social Sciences |
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Department |
Geography |
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Teaching Staff |
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| Aimed
at developing a critical perspective on the nature and practice of
modern geography, the module situates the development of geography
within the wider context of philosophical and social change. It
examines the basic nature of the discipline by considering some of the
ways in which the relationship between the society and space has been
theorised within geography. There are two parts to the module, each to
be conducted over one semester. One component traced the history of the
discipline and evaluates the different paradigms, approaches and
methodological considerations which have influenced human geography
including the impact of positivism, humanism, Marxism, feminism,
realism and postmodernism. The second component explores the
development of environmental scientific thought and practice and
related philosophical issues, before examining the unity diversity of
physical and human geographies through key concepts such as space,
place, environment and landscape. |
| Completed at least 80 MCs and for GE Majors only |
This
is a demanding (and I hope, also potentially rewarding) Honours course.
The Department of Geography is proud of the depth of knowledge amongst
those of its students who graduate with Honours. Confident command of
the material covered is central to what makes an NUS geography Honours
student distinctive: you must read and participate throughout in order
to handle the breadth and depth of material covered. Each class will be
characterized by intense discussion and debates. I will keep my
lecturing to a minimal level (1 hour or less).
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Venue: EarthLab
Time: Wednesday 2:30-5:30 pm (Starting 12 August 2009)
Make-up:
Monday 1:30-4:45 pm@The Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (just before the GIS
Lab), 24 August, 14 September and 28 September 2009
Optional tutorial sessions:
T1 Pol Economy Thursday 17 Sept: 12-2 pm Hons Room or 4-6 pm EarthLab Back
T2 Social Theory Thursday 8 October: 12-2 pm Hons Room or 4-6 pm EarthLab Back
T3 Nature and Society Thursday 29 October 12-2 pm Hons Room or Monday 2 November 3-5 pm Hons Room
Consultation Hour: Wednesday 10-12 pm
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1. Introduction: Why and How to do Geog Thot?
(12 August 2009 Earth Lab and 24 August 2009 -
1:30-4:45pm Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room
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We
are used to learning the development of thought in a historical
narrative way. In a diverse discipline such as human geography, it is
hard to find such a clear historical pathway that can be nicely
summarized in the term “paradigm shift”. Instead, contemporary human
geography is best characterized as a multitude comprising different
strands of thought that can sometimes be traced back to the early
foundation of the discipline. I have therefore chosen three such major
strands of geographic thought for this module: political economy,
social theory, and nature-society. While they are presented in separate
parts for heuristic and practical reasons, it is important to note that
these strands of thought do not evolve in a discrete and separate
manner. Their trajectories often intertwine and crossover and their
practitioners intermingle (and sometimes even marry each other!). In
this class, I will discuss with you how best we should learn the
development of this multitude in a timely and practical manner. A
learning toolkit will be shared for use throughout this module.
PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY
This
part of the module focuses on one of the most influential strands of
thought in contemporary human geography. Political economy emerged as a
major force by the late 1970s and fundamentally reshaped the ways in
which we study geographical patterns and processes. As a powerful
critique of and viable alternative to the two preceding thoughts –
empiricism and positivism, political economy has since evolved from
structural Marxism to realism and institutionalism. This part comprises
three classes. We start by tracing the origins and evolution of
political economy thought in human geography. We then read about how
political economy is practised in human geography today. Finally, we
evaluate the past, present, and future of political economy research in
human geography. Throughout this Part I, we will interrogate key
concepts in socio-economic life such as social relations, spatial
(re)structuring, uneven development, territorialization,
institutionalization, rescaling, and relationality.
2. Tracing political economy (2 September 2009 9 am-12 pm Earth Lab)
3. Reading political economy (9 September 2009)
4. Evaluating political economy (14 September 2009 1:30-4:45pm Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room)
PART TWO: SOCIAL THEORY
This
part of the module focuses on another influential strand of
contemporary geographic thought – social theory. Parallel to the
emergence of political economy during the late 1970s, human geographers
began to pay significant attention to human agency, their intentions,
and discursive identities. This earlier humanistic strand of social
theory not only challenged the blatant bracketing out of human actors
in empiricism and spatial science, but also accorded meanings and power
to human actors absent in the structuralist form of Marxism. By the
late 1980s and the early 1990s, geographic thought in human geography
could be described as a multitude of philosophical orientations
represented by postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism.
This part comprises three classes. We start by tracing the origins and
evolution of different strands of social theory in human geography. We
then read about how social theory informs geographical studies today.
Finally, we evaluate the past, present, and future of critical social
theory in human geography. Throughout this Part II, we will interrogate
key concepts in socio-cultural life such as imaginations, inscriptions,
metaphors, discourses, identities, representations, positionality,
performativity, and their relations to space, place, and geography.
5. Tracing social theory (16 September 2009)
6. Reading social theory (28 September 2009 1:30-4:45pm Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room)
7. Evaluating social theory (7 October 2009)
PART THREE: NATURE AND SOCIETY
This
final part focuses on perhaps the longest and most enduring tradition
in Geography – nature and society. Still, this strand of geographic
thought tends to be underplayed in most contemporary discussion of
human geography (including Johnston and Sidaway, 2004!). From the early
days of environmental determinism and regional geography, human
interaction with nature has been theorized differently over time. With
the rise of critical human geography since the 1970s (political economy
and social theory), nature and society have become one of the most
contested terrains for geographical knowledge. The emergence of
political ecology and hybrid geographies since the 1980s has firmly
(re)established the agenda of human geography as a discipline concerned
with the complex interfaces between nature and society. Human
geographers have developed critical perspectives on the politics of our
conceptions of nature and challenged us to be ethically responsible for
distant (un)natural strangers and places.
8. Tracing nature and society (14 October 2009)
9. Reading nature and society (21 October 2009)
10. Evaluating nature and society (28 October 2009)
PART FOUR: PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
11. Presentations (4 November 2009)
12. Discussions and revisions (11 November 2009)
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60%
CA: including 25% group assignment (presentation and written report),
25% individual written assignment, 10% participation (5% for attendance
and 5% for participation OR individual assignment result)
40% from closed book final examination (2 questions to be answered)
ASSIGNMENTS
To be discussed and announced in class.
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Group presentation and report (25%)
Topic: A philosophically informed critique of contemporary human geographical research
Steps:
1. Form a group of 4 to 6 students.
2.
Choose one of the three alternative readings for each of the Reading
Weeks (i.e. Cumbers et al., 2008; Bunnell, 2008 or Luke, 2008).
Note: I may rearrange your choice to ensure a reasonable distribution of these readings.
3. Choose any philosophical foundation taught in GE4101A and construct an in-depth critique of the geographical research reported in the chosen article.
Note: I may rearrange your choice to ensure a reasonable distribution of these “isms”.
4. Present your (well argued!) critique in 15 minutes during Class 11 (4 November 2009).
There
is no prescribed format for the presentation. Since the content of your
critique is likely to vary greatly, you are free to choose the
areas/themes that should be emphasized and how to best convey the
information to the audience.
5. Submit a written report of not more than 1,500 words by XXX.
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Individual assignment (25%)
Topic: Evaluating key concepts in human geography and their philosophical foundations
Steps:
1. Choose ONE of the three strands of geographic thought taught in this module.
Note: I may rearrange your choice to ensure a reasonable distribution.
2. Write a 2,500 words essay (excluding references) that evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen strand of thought in its conceptual development since the 1990s. You must utilize as many keywords listed in Table 1 (bold them when you do so).
3.
There is no prescribed format for your essay. I would like to see as
much creativity and thoughtfulness in your work as possible. But do
discuss with me if you have very wild ideas, just in case! The only
requirement is that the written report must follow the referencing
style used in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0129-7619
Submission: By 5 pm on Monday 2 November to be placed in the GE4101A mailbox next to the Department Office.
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Note:
I have provided a comprehensive list below NOT to intimidate you, but
to save you time from sourcing and choosing readings for your various
activities in this module. In terms of reading load, you are expected
to read NO MORE THAN TWO items (chapter or article marked with *) each
week.
The core texts for this module are:
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Johnston, Ron J. and Sidaway, James D. (2004), Geography and
Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945, Sixth Edition,
London: Arnold.
This is a detailed review of paradigmatic and
disciplinary change in human geography for the past half century. The
book is written in a narrative way and connects the debates among
leaders and “weavers” of different schools of geographic thought.
* Aitken, Stuart and Valentine, Gill (eds.) (2006), Approaches to Human Geography, London: Sage.
Chapters
in Part I deal with different philosophies and their diffusion into
contemporary human geography. They are written in a focused,
self-contained, and student-friendly manner; but they do not connect
well different strands of geographic thought. Part II offer
autobiographies by leading geographers such as David Harvey, David Ley,
Linda McDowell, and Janice Monk. Part III addresses practices in human
geography and will help your GE4101B coursework.
* Holloway, Sarah L., Rice, Stephen P. and Valentine, Gill (eds.) (2003), Key Concepts in Geography, London: Sage.
In
this edited volume, leading human and physical geographers reflect on
such key concepts as space, time, place, scale, and landscape.
Castree, Noel, Rogers, Ali and Sherman, Douglas (eds.) (2004), Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates, Oxford: Blackwell.
Cloke, Paul, Crang, Philip and Goodwin, Mark (eds.) (2004), Envisioning Human Geographies, London: Arnold.
Cloke,
Paul and Johnston, Ron (eds.) (2005), Spaces of Geographical Thought:
Deconstructing Human Geography’s Binaries, Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Two general reference guides that will useful throughout the course are:
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Gregory, Derek, Johnston, Ron J., Pratt, Geraldine, Watts, Michael and
Whatmore, Sarah (eds.) (2009), The Dictionary of Human Geography, Fifth
Edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
* Kitchin, Rob,
Thrift, Nigel, Castree, Noel, Crang, Mike, Domosh, Mona, Anderson, Kay,
Cloke, Paul, Crampton, Jeremy, Graham, Brian, Hadjimichalis, Costis,
Hubbard, Phil, Kearns, Robin, Kwan, Mei-Po, Lees, Loretta, McLafferty,
Sarah, Paasi, Anssi, Philo, Chris, Sidaway, James, Willis, Katie, and
Yeung, Henry (eds.) (2009), International Encyclopedia in Human
Geography, 12 Volumes, Online and Print, Elsevier. LINC Access via http://linc.nus.edu.sg:2084/record=b2691488
Check out its thousands of entries related to geographic thought, particularly under these sections:
- Disciplinary matters
- Metaconcepts
- People
- Philosophy and Geography
All
texts are available in the Central Library (be sure to consult the
editions specified above). Copies of Johnston and Sidaway (2004) may be
available for purchase at the NUS Co-op.
The key journals that you might wish to take a look at (they can all be accessed as E-journals through LINC) include:
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Environment and Planning A
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Geoforum
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (check out major debates)
Progress in Human geography (check out major debates)
Other relevant and more specialized geographical journals include:
Antipode: a journal of radical geography (check out major debates)
Cultural Geographies (previously Ecumene)
Economic Geography
Gender, Place and Culture
Journal of Economic Geography
Political Geography
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Social & Cultural Geography
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Weekly Readings
(Only items with * are compulsory)
1. Introduction: Why and How to do Geog Thot?
No reading for Class No.1 (hurray!), but come prepared for these three questions:
* What do I want to get out of this module and why?
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Who is my favourite human geographer and why? (Please choose one who is
still alive and active! Make sure you at least Google and visit this
person’s website, if available)
* What is my favourite “ism” (or philosophical foundation) and why?
Readings for Class No.2:
* Johnston and Sidaway (2004), Chapter 1.
* Aitken and Valentine (2006), Chapter 1.
Peet, Richard (1998), Modern Geographical Thought, Oxford: Blackwell, Chapter 1.
PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY
2. Tracing political economy
* Johnston and Sidaway (2004): Chapter 2 on regional geography and Chapter 6 on radical geographies.
* Aitken and Valentine (2006): Chapter 2 on spatial science (by Rob Kitchen)
Useful textbook references:
Johnston and Sidaway (2004): Chapters 3-4 on scientific method and spatial science.
Peet,
Richard (1998), Modern Geographical Thought, Oxford: Blackwell,
Chapters 3-5 on radical geography, structuralism, structuration, and
realism.
Aitken and Valentine (2006): Chapter 5 on Marx (by
George Henderson and Eric Sheppard), Chapter 7 on structuration (by
Isabel Dyck and Robin Kearns), and Chapter 8 on realism (by Andrew
Sayer).
Cloke et al. (2004): Chapter 4 on political economy (by Mark Goodwin).
Further journal readings:
Yeung,
Henry Wai-chung (1997), ‘Critical realism and realist research in human
geography: a method or a philosophy in search of a method?’, Progress
in Human Geography, Vol.21(1), pp.51-74.
Castree, Noel (1999),
‘Envisioning capitalism: geography and the renewal of Marxian political
economy’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
Vol.24(2), pp.137-58.
Forum in Antipode: A Radical Journal of
Geography, 2002, Vol.34(4): pp.655-678. Includes the following
articles: Euan Hague. “Antipode, Inc?”; Marvin Waterstone. “A Radical
Journal of Geography or a Journal of Radical Geography?; Jane Wills and
Jamie Peck. “Progress or Retreat? Antipode and the Radical Geographical
Project”; Noel Castree. “The Antinomies of Antipode.”
Major recent books:
Driver, Felix (2001), Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire, Oxford: Blackwell.
Harvey, David (2005), A Brief History of Neoliberalism, New York: Oxford University Press.
Massey, Doreen (2005), For Space, London: Sage.
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (2006), A Postcapitalist Politics, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
3. Reading political economy
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Lewis, Nick, Larner, Wendy and Le Heron, Richard (2008), ‘New Zealand
designer fashion industry: making industries and co-constituting
political projects’, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, Vol.33(1), pp.42-59.
Alternative reference:
Cumbers,
Andrew, Routledge, Paul and Nativel, Corinne (2008), ‘The entangled
geographies of global justice networks’, Progress in Human Geography,
Vol.32(2), pp.183-202.
4. Evaluating political economy
* The debate between Amin/Thrift and Smith/Harvey/Hudson in Antipode and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Amin, Ash and Thrift, Nigel (2005), ‘What's left? Just the future’, Antipode, Vol.37(2), pp.220-38.
Smith, Neil (2005), ‘Neo-critical geography, or, the flat pluralist world of business class’, Antipode, Vol.37(5), pp. 887-99.
Hudson,
Ray (2006), ‘On what's right and keeping left: Or why geography still
needs Marxian political economy’, Antipode, Vol.38(2), pp.374-95.
Harvey,
David (2006), ‘The geographies of critical geography’, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.31(4), pp.409-12.
Amin,
Ash and Thrift, Nigel (2007), ‘On being political’, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, Vol.32(1), pp.112-15.
Ontologies and epistemologies:
Barnes,
Trevor J. (2001), ‘Retheorizing economic geography: from the
quantitative revolution to the ‘cultural turn’”, Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, Vol.91(3), pp.546-65.
Elden,
Stuart (2005), ‘Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization
and the space of the world’, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, Vol.30(1), pp.8-19.
Yeung, Henry Wai-chung (2005),
‘Rethinking relational economic geography’, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, Vol.30(1), pp.37-51.
Allen,
John and Cochrane, Allan (2007), ‘Beyond the territorial fix: regional
assemblages, politics and power’, Regional Studies, Vol.41(9),
pp.1161-175.
Christophers, Brett (2007), ‘Enframing creativity:
power, geographical knowledges and the media economy’, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.32(2), pp.235-47.
Hudson,
Ray (2007), ‘Region and place: rethinking regional development in the
context of global environmental change’, Progress in Human Geography,
Vol.31(6), pp.827-36.
Jessop, Bob, Brenner, Neil and Jones,
Martin (2008), ‘Theorizing socio-spatial relations’, Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space, Vol.26(3), pp.389-401. See also comments
and debates on pp.402-419.
Sunley, Peter (2008), ‘Relational
economic geography: a partial understanding or a new paradigm?’,
Economic Geography, Vol.84(1), pp.1-26.
The political:
Sayer, Andrew (2001), ‘For a critical cultural political economy’, Antipode, Vol.33(4), pp.687-708.
Harvey, David (2006), ‘Neo-liberalism as creative destruction’, Geografiska Annaler B, Vol.88(2), pp.145-58.
Peck, Jamie A. (2008), ‘Remaking laissez-faire’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.32(1), pp.3-44.
Scale debates:
Marston (2000) vs. Brenner (2001)
Marston, Sallie A. (2000), ‘The social construction of scale’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.24(2), pp.219-41.
Brenner,
Neil (2001), ‘The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar
structuration’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.25(4), pp.591-614.
Purcell,
Mark (2003), ‘Islands of practice and the Marston/Brenner debate:
toward a more synthetic critical human geography’, Progress in Human
Geography, Vol.27(3), pp.317-32.
Collinge, Chris (2005), ‘The
différance between society and space: nested scales and the returns of
spatial fetishism’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
Vol.23(2), pp.189-206.
Mansfield, Becky (2005), ‘Beyond
rescaling: reintegrating the 'national' as a dimension of scalar
relations’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.29(4), pp.458-73.
Moore,
Adam (2008), ‘Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from
analysis to practice’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.32(2),
pp.203-26.
PART TWO: SOCIAL THEORY
5. Tracing social theory
* Johnston and Sidaway (2004): Chapter 7 on postmodern geographies and Chapter 8 on feminist geographies.
* Aitken and Valentine (2006): Chapter 3 on humanism (by Nic Entrikin and John Tepple)
Useful textbook references:
Aitken
and Valentine (2006): Chapter 4 on feminist geographies (by Deborah
Dixon and John P Jones III), Chapter 9 on postmodern geographies (by
David Clarke), Chapter 10 on poststructuralist theories (by Paul
Harrison), Chapter 11 on actor-network theory (by Fernando Bosco), and
Chapter 12 on postcolonialism (by Clive Barnett).
Cloke et al.
(2004): Chapter 5 on nonrepresentational theory (by Nigel Thrift),
Chapter 6 on postcolonial geographies (by Catherine Nash), Chapter 7 on
feminist geographies (by Geraldine Pratt), and Chapter 8 on
poststructuralist geographies (by Marcus Doel).
Peet, Richard (1998), Modern Geographical Thought, Oxford: Blackwell, Chapters 6-7 on poststructuralism and feminism.
Further journal readings:
Popke,
E. Jeffrey (2003), ‘Poststructuralist ethics: subjectivity,
responsibility and the space of community’, Progress in Human
Geography, Vol.27(3), pp.298-316.
Thrift, Nigel (2006), ‘Space’, Theory Culture Society, Vol.23(2-3), pp.139-55.
Valentine,
Gill (2007), ‘Theorizing and researching intersectionality: a challenge
from feminist geography’, The Professional Geographer, Vol.59(1),
pp.10-21.
Major recent books:
Blunt, Alison and McEwan, Cheryl (eds.) (2002), Postcolonial Geographies, London: Continuum.
Murdoch, Jonathan (2006), Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space, London: Sage.
Thrift, Nigel (2008), Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect, London: Routledge.
6. Reading social theory
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McDowell, Linda (2008), ‘Thinking through work: complex inequalities,
constructions of difference and trans-national migrants’, Progress in
Human Geography, Vol.32(4), pp.491-508.
Alternative reference:
Bunnell,
Tim (2008), ‘Multiculturalism’s regeneration: celebrating Merdeka
(Malaysian independence) in a European Capital of Culture’,
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.33(2),
pp.251-67.
7. Evaluating social theory
* The debate between Marston et al. and Leitner and Miller in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Marston,
Sallie A., Jones, John Paul III and Woodward, Keith (2005), ‘Human
geography without scale’, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, Vol.30(4), pp.416-32.
Leitner, Helga and Miller,
Byron (2007), ‘Scale and the limitations of ontological debate: a
commentary on Marston, Jones and Woodward’, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, Vol.32(1), pp.116-25.
Jones,
John Paul III, Woodward, Keith and Marston, Sallie A. (2007),
‘Situating flatness’, Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, Vol.32(2), pp.264-76.
Two recent “applications” of this debate:
Ansell,
Nicola (2009), ‘Childhood and the politics of scale: descaling
children's geographies?’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.33(2),
pp.190-209.
Rangan, Haripriya and Kull, Christian A. (2009),
‘What makes ecology `political'?: rethinking `scale' in political
ecology’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.33(1), pp.28-45.
Further journal readings:
Thrift,
Nigel (2000), ‘Performing cultures in the new economy’, Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, Vol.90(4), pp.674-92.
Dodge,
Martin and Kitchen, Rob (2005), ‘Code and the transduction of space’,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.95, pp.162-180.
Graham,
Stephen (2005), ‘Remember Fallujah: demonising place, constructing
atrocity’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol.23(1),
pp.1-10.
Gregson, Nicky, Metcalfe, Alan and Crewe, Louise
(2007), ‘Moving things along: the conduits and practices of divestment
in consumption’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
Vol.32(2), pp.187-200.
Barnett, Clive (2008), ‘Political affects
in public space: normative blind-spots in non-representational
ontologies’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
Vol.33(2), pp.186-200.
Oswin, Natalie (2008), ‘Critical
geographies and the uses of sexuality: deconstructing queer space’,
Progress in Human Geography, Vol.32(1), pp.89-104.
Holt, Louise
(2008), ‘Embodied social capital and geographic perspectives:
performing the habitus’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.32(2),
pp.227-46.
Kraftl, Peter and Horton, John (2008), ‘Spaces of
every-night life: for geographies of sleep, sleeping and sleepiness’,
Progress in Human Geography, Vol.32(4), pp.509-24.
PART THREE: NATURE AND SOCIETY
8. Tracing nature and society
* Castree, Noel (2003), ‘Commodifying what nature?’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.27(3), pp.273-97.
Useful textbook reference:
Cloke et al. (2004): Chapter 2 on ecologies (by Margaret Fitzsimmons) and Chapter 3 on enclosure (by Michael Watts).
Useful references:
Murdoch,
Jonathan (1997), ‘Inhuman/nonhuman/human: actor-network theory and the
prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and
society’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol.15,
pp.731-56.
Hanson, Susan (1999), ‘Isms and schisms: healing the
rift between the nature-society and space-society traditions in human
geography’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
Vol.89(1), pp.133-43.
Whatmore, Sarah (1999), ‘Hybrid
geographies: rethinking the “human” in human geography’, in Doreen
Massey, John Allen and Philip Sarre (eds.), Human Geography Today,
Cambridge: Polity, pp.22-29.
Walker, Peter A. (2005), ‘Political ecology: where is the ecology?’, Progress in Human Geography, Vol.29(1), pp.73-82.
Gibbs,
David C. (2006), ‘Prospects for an environmental economic geography:
Linking ecological modernization and regulationist approaches’,
Economic Geography, Vol.82(2), pp.193-215.
Zimmerer, Karl S.
(2007), ‘Cultural ecology (and political ecology) in the “environmental
borderlands”: exploring the expanded connectivities within geography’,
Progress in Human Geography, Vol.31(2), pp.227-44.
Braun, Bruce
(2008), ‘Nature’, in Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Bruce Rhoads and
Diana Liverman, (eds.), A Companion to Environmental Geography, Oxford:
Blackwell (Ask me for the unpublished copy in digital format).
9. Reading nature and society
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Le Billon, Philippe (2008), ‘Diamond wars? Conflict diamonds and
geographies of resource wars’, Annals, Association of American
Geographers, Vol.98(2), pp.345-72.
Alternative reference:
Luke,
Timothy W. (2008), ‘The politics of true convenience or inconvenient
truth: struggles over how to sustain capitalism, democracy, and ecology
in the 21st century’, Environment and Planning A, Vol.40(8),
pp.1811-824.
10. Evaluating nature and society
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Two major debates on nature-society relations in Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers and Annals of the Association of
American Geographers
Massey, Doreen (1999), ‘Space-time,
“science” and the relationship between physical geography and human
geography’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
Vol.24(3), pp.261-76.
Lane, Stuart N. (2001), ‘Constructive
comments on D Massey – ‘Space-time, “science” and the relationship
between physical geography and human geography’, Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers, Vol.26(2), pp.243-256.
Turner,
Billie L. II. (2002), ‘Contested identities: human-environment
geography and disciplinary implications in a restructuring academy’,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.91(1), pp.52-74
(See also commentary/response, pp.75-86).
Useful references:
Bumpus,
Adam G. and Liverman, Diana M. (2008), ‘Accumulation by decarbonization
and the governance of carbon offsets’, Economic Geography, Vol.84(2),
pp.127-55.
Castree, Noel (2008a), ‘Neoliberalising nature: the
logics of deregulation and reregulation’, Environment and Planning A,
Vol.40(2), pp.131-52.
Castree, Noel (2008b), ‘Neoliberalising
nature: processes, effects, and evaluations’, Environment and Planning
A, Vol.40(2), pp.153-73.
Gandy, Matthew (2008), ‘Above the
treetops: nature, history and the limits to philosophical naturalism’,
Geoforum, Vol.39(2), pp.561-69.
12. Discussions and revisions
* The recent debate on the role of textbooks in geographic thought
Johnston,
Ronald J. (2006), ‘The politics of changing human geography's agenda:
textbooks and the representation of increasing diversity’, Transactions
of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol.31(3), pp.286-303.
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